George Atkinson used to attend the NPS meetings when I was there in the early
days and he used to be the only fluent piper that came to our meetings. I
remember him playing Athole Highlanders and the Remember Me hornpipe in a very
clear and articulated style that we knew was what we had to aim f
Perhaps the Glasgow Museum (at The National Piping Centre?) specialises
in Scottish pipes and therefore is even more specialist than the wonder
museum in Morpeth, or the Jim Coldren's collection that used to be
housed in the Bagpipe Music Museum in Ellicott City in Maryland (which
had sheet music f
Chirs wrote:
>>>Bad taste I suppose ;-) - as exhibited by, imho, the likes of
Pavarotti and Kreisler, who I gather are quite >>>popular in some
circles. The "right" way to sing and play the violin, I believe. Hm
I realize this is off topic but I would just like to say in Pava
Dear Paul,
I think you have made the right distinction between 'gracing' and 'cutting' but
it is the cuttings which are not neccessary on the small pipe which are the
'choytes'. The gracings, if done neatlyand discretely, are a part of playing
any instrument which includes the NSP.
Colin R
Completely off-topic to this thread but something slightly curious came up-
After reading the link to the book quoted by Philip I browsed some of the
other piping books listed at Amazon. Relating to Hugh Cheape's ''The Book
of the Bagpipe'' found a bit of blurb mentioning ''...the Bagpipes Museum
< Has anyone had more luck than me?
No.
c
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>Our
>pipes alone, among other bagpipes, have the capability of producing
>truly detached notes
In other words, they can do what the others can't. However they can also do
what the others can, so they are potentially richer. Why make them,
complementarily, as restricted as the others?
I thin
> - "grace notes" (or "gracings"), i.e. twiddly bits that are
> not necessary for articulation but are put in because the
>composer or
> player thinks they sound good.
>
>
> Choyting on the NSP would fall into the latter category.
I'll drink to that! There might even be a few li
