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>[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Francis Wood
>Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 10:57 AM
>To: Anthony Robb
>Cc: Dartmouth NPS
>Subject: [NSP] Re: Pipes concerts etc.
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>On 29 May 2011, at 09:40, Anthony Robb wrote:
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>> It's such a pity that this part of the tradition (which was in some
>> ways a truer and longer tradition than the Clough one) is not only
>> ignored but actively denied in some quarters.
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>Someone once said 'A language is a dialect with an army'.
>Well, of course, it was the Cloughs who had the explosives.
>Haswellite, I believe!
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>But more seriously, you're right to point out that there were
>other traditions, some still going strong. Whilst accepting
>basic principles, there's more than one way to play.
>Any instrument which is capable of only one narrowly
>prescribed style isn't worth playing.
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>Francis
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