Hello Rick I have great difficulty with your implication that Billy Pigg was not a 'proper' piper. Best wishes Anthony
--- On Thu, 16/6/11, Rick Damon <[email protected]> wrote: From: Rick Damon <[email protected]> Subject: [NSP] Re: Trad.nsp vs Dartmouth To: "John Dally" <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, 16 June, 2011, 20:23 John, I try to stay out of these public debates, as it seems nothing good ever comes of them. But I really think it is unfair of you to categorize the argument as "elitism" because a couple of the best plpers are trying to make people understand how to play their instrument properly. I'll stop now before I anger too many friends! best wishes, Rick Damon On Jun 16, 2011, at 2:50 PM, John Dally wrote: > I don't understand the rift between the proper pipers and the NPS. Don't they owe much of their fame to winning and judging competitions there? Doesn't the NPS publish and sell their books? I'm sorry to see fractious elitism born again. I thought we had gone beyond that a couple of years ago, finally. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 16, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Dave S <[1][email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Inky, >> -- glad you keep one eye open and nope I can't play proper - I don't have the wrapper of the tradition anywhere near - so I don't even bother with any form of competition, I just like great instruments. >> >> Dave S >> >> On 6/16/2011 8:08 PM, Inky- Adrian wrote: >>> The annual smallpipe Bitch and Bite comps. will be in July. There will >>> be 6 classes: absolute sloppyness and running-your-notes-in, just damn >>> right easy-playing, almost there, nearly normal, can't play like >>> that-it's too hard and tight as a cats arsehole. >>> Tommy Breckons would be proud of me! >>> -- >>> >>> >>> To get on or off this list see list information at >>> [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> No virus found in this message. >>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >>> Version: 10.0.1382 / Virus Database: 1513/3707 - Release Date: 06/16/11 >>> >>> >> >> > > Rick Damon [3][email protected] "A computer without Windows is like a chocolate chip cookie without ketchup." -- References 1. http://uk.mc5.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected] 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 3. http://uk.mc5.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]
