On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Anselm Lingnau wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SUZANNE MACDONALD) writes:
>
> > Altering the intervals of "the most perfect instrument" to those of the
> > "primitive and very imperfect" one makes no musical sense nor any other
> > sense
>
> Well, both these comments come from fiddlers so what do you expect? Of
> course a fiddler would regard the bagpipes as a `primitive and very
> imperfect' instrument -- just nine notes and so on. However a fiddle
> isn't any good in, e.g., battlefield-scale psychological warfare, and
> any piper would be forgiven if they considered a fiddle `primitive and
> very imperfect' on that account.
Actually I am convinced that the pipes are a more difficult
instrument to play then the fiddle. I am married to a piper, it takes
alot of practice to get them going well.
Pipers have the advantage that they don't have all those obnoxious
pseudo-classical crossover players hanging around trying to tell them how
to play. There are no strathspey and reel "societies" for pipers. Just
pipe bands/bagpipe playing drinking clubs.
That and the Scottish music genetic bigots ("You aren't from
Inverness county and you aren't 100% Scottish, so your music can't be any
good") are the two factors that piss me off to no end.
Fortunately we've been able to avoid those sorts of elements on
this list, but there are plenty of other related lists out there that are
rife with opinions like that. Sigh... :-)
Toby
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