[NSP] Re: Trad.nsp vs Dartmouth
a couple of the best plpers are trying to make people understand how to play their instrument properly. No prizes for identifying the following quote: She is a very good teacher, demanding accurate staccato playing. C To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[NSP] Re: Trad.nsp vs Dartmouth
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 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
[NSP] Re: Trad.nsp vs Dartmouth
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 david...@pt.lu 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 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
[NSP] Re: Trad.nsp vs Dartmouth
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 david...@pt.lu 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 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 richard.a.damon@dartmouth.edu A computer without Windows is like a chocolate chip cookie without ketchup.
[NSP] Re: Trad.nsp vs Dartmouth
What should we call it? Properism? Sent from my iPhone On Jun 16, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Rick Damon richard.a.damon@dartmouth.edu wrote: 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 david...@pt.lu 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 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 richard.a.damon@dartmouth.edu A computer without Windows is like a chocolate chip cookie without ketchup.
[NSP] Re: Trad.nsp vs Dartmouth
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 richard.a.damon@dartmouth.edu wrote: From: Rick Damon richard.a.damon@dartmouth.edu Subject: [NSP] Re: Trad.nsp vs Dartmouth To: John Dally dir...@gmail.com Cc: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu 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]david...@pt.lu 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]richard.a.damon@dartmouth.edu A computer without Windows is like a chocolate chip cookie without ketchup. -- References 1. http://uk.mc5.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=david...@pt.lu 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 3. http://uk.mc5.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=richard.a.damon@dartmouth.edu
