Re: [scots-l] Cretin Desires to Be Musical.
Bob writes: There's a usenet group for pipers. The feeling is unanamous that one needs to have a teacher to learn the pipes. That's what I feared. I guess we had one locally for a while, then he went postal and was fired by the university. By gateway instrument, you might mean tin whistle. Tin whistle is very fun to play, and relatively easy to pick up on your own. chiffandfipple.com is a pretty impressive (if not exhaustive) place to start. Far out. That's a pretty funny website. I think you may be right, this could be a place to start. I have a recorder at home, but couldn't find any decent resources. Conversely, there seems to be a lot on the tin whistle out there. Bruce Campbell scrievit: You cannot teach yourself to play the bagpipes. Sigh. As noted above. When I was 18, I ran with a pipe band in Niagara Falls but goofed off and never learned much. About piping that is. I learned a lot about whisky. What geographic area are you in? I'm temporarily dislocated in Alfred, N.Y., directly south of Rochester on the Pennsylvania border, maybe 150 miles from Buffalo. -- Ian J. L. Adkins District Staff Officer for Communication Services Great Lakes Ninth District - Eastern Region U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary http://www.uscgaux.org/~092/ Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Cretin Desires to Be Musical.
Uill, Ian- I just want to let you know that I had the same question, so thank you for posting it. After placing an order for headphones and Prozac, my husband (he can't believe that he did this) ordered me a set of pipes for Christmas. I will have Gibson smallpipes within a week. The people at Gibson told me that it will come with information on how to use them, so I guess the first thing that I will do is read the booklet or whatever, and bumble around. I'm not very encouraged to hear that it is hard to learn how to play them, but I am patient and persistent. I will save your e-mail address, and if I find anything useful for us beginners, I will be sure to let you know. Cairistiona California Let me make here my ardent plea for web resources devoted to teaching the musically incompetent the bagpipes. Failing that, I'll settle for a gateway instrument. I'm not kidding. Simple for simple minds. -- Ian J. L. Adkins District Staff Officer for Communication Services Great Lakes Ninth District - Eastern Region U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary http://www.uscgaux.org/~092/ Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Cretin Desires to Be Musical.
There's a usenet group for pipers. The feeling is unanamous that one needs to have a teacher to learn the pipes. That's what I feared. I guess we had one locally for a while, then he went postal and was fired by the university. It may not be that bad - lots of people use the (Glasgow) College of Piping's teaching materials on their own (books, recordings, videos). You hear lots of complaints about Seamus McNeill being an arrogant old SOB but I haven't heard anyone saying his stuff doesn't work. By gateway instrument, you might mean tin whistle. Tin whistle is very fun to play, and relatively easy to pick up on your own. And not much like the pipes. - Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack * food intolerance data recipes, Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files and CD-ROMs of Scottish music. off-list mail to j-c rather than scots-l at this site, please Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
[scots-l] College of Piping
Regarding the College of Piping in Glasgow. Seamus MacNeill is long gone and the current principal is my 'binkies companion Rab Wallace. The college caters for a large number of beginners throughout the world and has produced very successful teaching material. The well known books have now been wholly updated. See their site at: http://www.college-of-piping.co.uk/ Stuart Eydmann Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
[scots-l] Scots Box Players?
Dominique enquired and Nigel suggested I might have something to say. I have been vary about contributing as my last post on the accordion in Scotland attracted considerable flame. To some the accordion family is still viewed as not quite Scottish. Scotland has a long and unbroken tradition of melodion playing which goes back to the 19th century and reached its peak in the 1920s and 30s when large numbers of gramophone records were made. Only a few have been re-released but Topic's Melodion Greats is worth a listen. Also Sleepytoon Records has been doing reissues. I have my own archive and hope to release some too if I can find the time. I have written two papers on the subject mentioned below. The most recent is in a very obscure publication and at present I am not allowed to distribute photocopies. However I do hope to post them in due course on my projected Scottish music website. Keith Chandler has a good article on the Wypers at: http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/wypers.htm The www.mustrad.org.uk Also, some interesting material is coming to light in the archives of German manufacturers which shows just how important the Scottish market was and how highly regarded the best players there were. Hope this helps. Stuart Eydmann Eydmann, Stuart (1999) As Common as Blackberries: The First Hundred Years of the Accordion in Scotland. Folk Music Journal 7 No. 5 pp.565-608. Eydmann, Stuart (2001) From the Wee Melodeon to the Big Box: The Accordion in Scotland since 1945. The Accordion in all its Guises, Musical Performance Volume 3 Parts 2 - 4 pp.107-125. Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Fear a Bhois Fada Gun Phosadh
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Nigel Gatherer wrote: Can anyone translate the title of this tune? I suspect it's something like a man who is late in marrying (which is part of the lyric supplied) but I'd like to make sure. X:624 T:Fear a Bhois Fada Gun Phosadh It should be Fear a Bhitheas Fada Gun Phosadh. It reads, A Man Who Would Be Long Without Marrying. The lyrics go: 1 Fear a bhitheas fada gun phòsadh Fàsaidh feur is fraoch is fireach air Fear a bhitheas fada gun phòsadh Fàsaidh feusag mhór air (Man who would be long without marrying Will grow grass and heather and a hill on him. Man who would be long without marrying Will grow a big beard on him.) 2 Repeat Verse 1 3 Fàsaidh feur air, fàsaidh fraoch air Fàsaidh feur is fraoch is fireach air Fàsaidh feur air, fàsaidh fraoch air Fàsaidh feusag mhór air (Will grow grass on him, Will grow heather on him. Will grow grass and heather and a hill on him. Will grow grass on him, Will grow heather on him. Will grow a big beard on him.) 4 Fàsaidh feur air, fàsaidh fraoch air Fàsaidh feur is fraoch is fireach air Fear a bhitheas fada gun phòsadh Fàsaidh feusag mhór air. (Will grow grass on him, Will grow heather on him. Will grow grass and heather and a hill on him. A man who will be long without marrying Will grow a big beard on him.) [Then repeat the whole thing all over again] It's a fun piece. Bidh mi 'gad fhaicinn!!! IWK Children's Hospital Telethon - June 5th 6th, 2004 $4.1 Million for 2003 - Can we do better? I bet!! Gum bi thu beo\ ann an a\m u\idheil. George / Seo\ras Seto e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Main e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Alternate - Large Files url: http://www.geocities.com/george_seto.geo | My stuff url: http://www.corvuscorax.org:8080/~gseto/creighton | Helen Creighton Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Cretin Desires to Be Musical.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uill, Ian- I just want to let you know that I had the same question, so thank you for posting it. After placing an order for headphones and Prozac, my husband (he can't believe that he did this) ordered me a set of pipes for Christmas. I will have Gibson smallpipes within a week. The people at Gibson told me that it will come with information on how to use them, so I guess the first thing that I will do is read the booklet or whatever, and bumble around. I'm not very encouraged to hear that it is hard to learn how to play them, but I am patient and persistent. I will save your e-mail address, and if I find anything useful for us beginners, I will be sure to let you know. Cairistiona California I think that it's not that it's so hard to learn to play pipes (although obviously they have their challenges), but that it's difficult or impossible to learn to play them correctly without someone guiding you! A friend of mine is learning Highland pipes from a good piping teacher here and from what she tells me, apart from learning how to play the actual music there's a ton of fiddly little things to adjust to make them work right; for instance they spent about a year working through different combinations of drone reeds before they found a set that worked well with her pipes. She assumed she was doing something wrong and that's why the set was so hard to play, but when they finally got it sorted out she was surprised how much easier it was to make them sound. That's the kind of stuff you need an experienced piper to help you with. Good luck in your learning, Cairistiona! -Steve -- Steve Wyrick -- Concord, California Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
