[NSP] Re: Swedish letters
On a Mac you can choose all sorts of keyboard alphabets for foreign languages: it's very easy to do - just click on the flag symbol that should be showing at the right-hand end of the bar along the top of the screen and choose open international from its options; then select what you want. When you are finished with it, change back. I use that facility a lot. On my Mac, to save hassle, I have made a little Textedit file (=RTF, which opens almost instantly) into which I have copied and pasted the foreign alphabetic symbols that I often need for my academic work (Anglo-Saxon letters from the Icelandic font, a full Greek alphabet, etc.) and then I can copy and paste them into anything, including Word, without having to change the whole keyboard every time I want an odd letter. all the best Daphne On 18 Aug 2009, at 22:41, Rev John Clifford wrote: Simon, All sorts of wierd permutations on latin letters are possible on a Mac and I assume on a MS machine -- just install a Welsh keyboard driver. There are a few slavic letters I can't do but German, Scandanavian, Hungarian, French, Spanish are easily accessible on a dead-key basis. The normal British letters are as written on the keys but the alt key is magic. John retired in Scotland but still trying to learn Welsh. My version ( from a P Cato personal recording from Ushaw College 01) says that there's a little o over the second a ( sorry my mac don't do Swedish..) Simon On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Julia Say [1]julia@nspipes.co.uk wrote: Can anyone tell me where the letters with dots over and suchlike should go in the tune title APPELBOLATEN (it's Swedish). I have it handwritten, twice and differently, from various sources, and I don't trust either rendition. Thanks Julia To get on or off this list see list information at [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:julia@nspipes.co.uk 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Daphne Briggs 34 Thorncliffe Road Oxford OX2 7BB Tel/Fax +44 (0)1865 310712
[NSP] Re: Tune title spelling
Thanks for those comments Sheila. As it happens the walkers (120 or so) were sauntering around one of Martha's famous buffet arrangements at Blankenheim when I learnt the tune. We played it on two fiddles and a nyckelharpa about 17 times through and it was lovely. We have since used the tune to walk the building at The Sage Gateshead - strolling around playing it everywhere including fire escapes, main auditoriums and even loos! I think it's called taking the music to the people. Anthony --- On Fri, 21/8/09, bri...@aol.com bri...@aol.com wrote: From: bri...@aol.com bri...@aol.com Subject: [NSP] Re: Tune title spelling To: anth...@robbpipes.com, nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Friday, 21 August, 2009, 1:04 AM Hi Anthony, Windy Gyle is such a beautiful CD, we play it over and over.? If anything . .. Appelbo is maybe a trifle too slow but, as Colin said, you can play a tune any way you like it best and, after all, maybe?the walkers were?admiring the view as they went.?? Could you send me the dots -?all the?parts - for Shingly Beach - a lovely tune,? nice arrangement and beautifully played. Sheila ? ? -Original Message- From: Anthony Robb [1]anth...@robbpipes.com To: [2]...@cs.dartmouth.edu; [3]julia@nspipes.co.uk Sent: Wed, Aug 19, 2009 4:58 am Subject: [NSP] Re: Tune title spelling Hello Julia Have put a clip of a bit of the Windy Gyle version at [1][4]http://robbpipes.com/ Not sure if it is slow enough - perhaps you, Sheila or Margaret can check. At least we seem to have the title and spelling right! Cheers Anthony --- On Wed, 19/8/09, Julia Say [5]julia@nspipes.co.uk wrote: From: Julia Say [6]julia@nspipes.co.uk Subject: [NSP] Re: Tune title spelling To: [7]...@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Wednesday, 19 August, 2009, 8:39 AM On 18 Aug 2009, [2][8]bri...@aol.com wrote: Margaret has spellt it out perfectly for you. Thanks to everyone who helped. ?? My Word? and Open Office have all of the accents for the vowels but I have not found a way to access them for e-mail.? I I have access to the necessary through Word, but no, the emailer doesn't do it. the Ganglats are definitely Walking Music .???Years ago,?when I was in UK I took 3 of the tunes, including the Ganglat fran Appelbo ?along to a session at the Sun Inn, and? talked a bit about this Walking Music, however, as soon as the tune had been played a couple of times, someone said, Oh, we know this tune, we call it the Appleblossom Polka?and we play it like this, ?and promptly galloped through it. I remember, I was there. Shortly afterwards we were visited by a Swedish lady who was also horrified at the speed at which we played them. Stockholmslaten is already in tunebook 3, but Appelbolaten does also come up at intervals so I thought I'd put it in the upcoming folio. Maybe we can get it back to its Swedish speed - we'll have to see. Thanks again Julia To get on or off this list see list information at [3][9]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. [10]http://robbpipes.com/ 2. [11]http://uk.mc12.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=bri...@aol.com 3. [12]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- -- References 1. http://uk.mc12.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=anth...@robbpipes.com 2. http://uk.mc12.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=...@cs.dartmouth.edu 3. http://uk.mc12.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=julia@nspipes.co.uk 4. http://robbpipes.com/ 5. http://uk.mc12.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=julia@nspipes.co.uk 6. http://uk.mc12.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=julia@nspipes.co.uk 7. http://uk.mc12.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=...@cs.dartmouth.edu 8. http://uk.mc12.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=bri...@aol.com 9. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 10. http://robbpipes.com/ 11. http://uk.mc12.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=bri...@aol.com 12. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[NSP] Re: Looking for other NSP players in Suffolk or East Anglia
Having had the time to digest all of the replies I received I'd like to thank all of the list members for their advice and assistance. Two things are now clear to me - there don't appear to be any NSP players in my immediate area, although it's entirely possible that there are one or two closet players who don't play in public. Certainly my local folk music gurus are unaware of anyone and they would probably know if they had raised their heads at some time in the past. So, the only time I would be likely to play in the company of other NSP players is if we visit the North East, which we do less and less these days. I'm not going to base my decision on the possibility of missing out on one or two sessions every 24 months! Secondly, almost every time I play in a group of musicians they are melodeon players as the instrument is extremely popular in Suffolk and we have some lovely teachers. All the tunes I join in with Autoharp are in D, or G, and the range of the melodeon matches that of the NSP without the addition of a C natural note. My melodeon lady took me through the whole range of music we play at intermediate folk band and every single tune could be played on an NSP D set. Lastly it is also possible to sing accompanied by the pipes and as I am most comfortable within the Soprano range the D pitch pipes will complement my vocal capacity. So thank you again to everyone who took the time to examine my criteria and offer an opinion, it has been extremely useful. I have now ordered a D set from David Burleigh, who has been most helpful and I look forward with considerable anticipation to their arrival. Alison To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
