From John Dally 9th Feb:
There are not many fiddlers
around here who are interested in playing with NSP, or SSP for that
matter, but it would I like to find one who is willing to tune down
the way Willie Taylor did in order play with Joe Hutton.
Mmm...
Willie Taylor hated
Thanks for the explanation. I think a similar arrangement has been used
on other instruments in the past.
It is strange that I can't find any reference to such a beast on the
Internet, but I did find this:
[1]http://kaczmarek.org/pages/biopage_folder/bio_1.html
Wiki is
On 6th Feb Julia Say wrote:
That's interesting, Margaret. I remember Joe's views on both Irish
music in
Northumberland, and on Billy Pigg and his playing, from conversations
with him in
the early 90s, at the Rothbury course, at Alnwick, and from playing
bass with him
and
Anthony is absolutely right about Willie Taylor's dislike of tuning down a
fiddle; the 'knicker-elastic' comment is one he used frequently.
When I'm playing duets with Andy's nsp, I always tune down. For me, I've
spent a long time trying to find the right fiddle and strings so it doesn't
sound
Margaret's comment:
When I'm playing duets with Andy's nsp, I always tune down. For me, I've
spent a long time trying to find the right fiddle and strings so it
doesn't
sound like a kipper-box (or I hope it doesn't) when tuned lower.
made me think, what about baroque violinists? Specialist
I'm confused, how did we get to knickers from kippers? No, on second
thoughts don't answer that.
What I'd like to know is, what is the correspondence about, the lowering of
the tension in the elastic of the knickers, or the tension in the elastic of
the lowered knickers?
Tim
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On 9 Feb 2010, at 12:24, tim rolls BT wrote:
The kipper box is a new one on me, and I think must be very local to =
Craster. I've never seen one at a session, even at Low Newton just up =
the coast, but maybe I go to the wrong sort of gig. It brings forth a =
vision of some sort of coastal
Not Northumbrian or pipes, nor Cape Breton, but some may enjoy this
1972 RTE prgramme on John Doherty the Donegal fiddler, in 5 parts. Part
1 is
[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiehZZ2tXKg
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References
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiehZZ2tXKg
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