I'm risking a lot here I know but who actually decided how the pipes
should be played?
I'm presuming that we just don't know what the pipes sounded like or how
they were played many years ago (we may have old pipes and old reeds but
that's not quite the same as knowing how they sounded being played by a
piper that was contemporary to them).
I'm sure this has been covered in depth in many publications but I have
never seen them.
It's a serious question, not a flippant one. It's a prennial problem
with any instrument, of course. I've often heard it said that Beethoven
wouldn't recognise his own works if he were to hear them played now.
I'd really like to know (in shortened form, naturally) as to how the
"proper" playing of the pipes was decided.
My first introduction to the pipes was watcching Billy play on the TV in
1968. I wasn't aware of other pipers until several years later (Wild
Hills LP days)
Thanks.
Colin Hill
On 17/06/2011 00:50, Inky- Adrian wrote:
Fortunately, when I was wanting to play the Union pipes, I ended up at
DGBs in Longfram. I ended up buying the NSPs. Billy Pigg was the piper
I went for because he was sympathetic to Irish music, having been
influenced by Irish musicians and their music, and Scottish music.
Pigg also imitated the various pipes of these countries. He wasn't
interested in tradition. Because of him and various other pipers,
including me, the NSPs have almost become a mixture of playing styles
with the proper technique almost being lost. The NSPs are loosing their
roots and loosing their identity because of lazy, so called players,
who don't know how to play or can't do it properly because of their
slow dexterity or their Pigg stupid ideas. I'm saying this because I
care and it takes a Lancastrian to do it. I've taken to the tradition
more than most and those who say the NSPs can be played any-old-how are
the ones ruining the pipes. Why don't you take up an easy instrument to
play instead of lowering the standard of a fantastic instrument? or
just stop posting on here.
The forum, which I made because it was needed, would not tolerate my
post nor any other postings of this sort becsuse we have one goal:
Traditional NSPs, their history, playing, etc etc.
There is no disagreement with us, we are just progressing and
preserving our NPSs away from those who know little or nothing. So keep
on Dartmouth, where you can bitch, argue or whatever. Nothing is
documented or catagorised on here, our forum does this and we are the
Borg-we are the future.
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