I think Adrian is expressing some of my personal opinion. I think
that the NPS has a significant duty to provide information to its
membership, particularly new pipers, about the various approaches to
piping and to offer encouragement to those who wish to take a
disciplined approach to piping. I think some might call this the
pursuit of excellence.
The tutor book which indicated a proper style of piping was the
product of a former, late 19th C society which did not last very long.
I fear that such researches as I have carried to not lead me to
suppose that the founders of the NPS (est 1928) were not shining
lights in the piping firmament. No wonder Tom Clough could not see
the point.
But,
We have a strong piping community
We have a viable society
We have an excellent range of top-class pipers for all tastes
We have several first class exponents of detached playing.
We have pipes that play in tune
We have abundant CDs
We have more tunebooks than most know what to do with
Are we perhaps experiencing the 'penalties of success'
Barry
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Ask not what you can do for the NPS but rather what you can do for piping.
Then bang on the NPS door until they give you the wherewithall to do it.
Quoting Inky- Adrian <inkyadr...@googlemail.com>:
I don't want a definate rule I would just like thr NPS to acknowledge
that there is a traditional way of playing the small-pipes which is
detached. If they don' t, then they are saying that the pipes have no
playing tradition, therefore I'm playing pipes which are a bastard- no
lineage of how they are played.
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