Re: [scots-l] What makes a style "Scottish?"

[Kate Dunlay or David Greenberg]

>       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.

Are you kidding?  Just like any other group, the piping world is full of
people telling other people that they're doing it all wrong!  (I'm not even
in it and I know this.)  They can't even agree on the history of their
music!  When people love something, they tend to have strong opinions about
it.  The problem is that sometimes this turns into intolerance of the
opinions and practices of others.

- Kate D.

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Kate Dunlay & David Greenberg
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
http://www.total.net/~dungreen


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