[NSP] Smallpipes Simulator

2010-04-20 Thread Anthony Robb
Hellos apiece This is an intriguing idea but I can't help wondering whether simulator might be too strong a claim? In 35 years of piping tuition, not only in the UK but also Germany, NZ and USA, I've clocked up over 5000 tutee-hrs of experience and the first (also main and

[NSP] Re: Smallpipes Simulator

2010-04-20 Thread tim rolls BT
It seems then that this Simulator is very much of the moment, since all the planes can do at the moment is taxi, (due to the antics of what the Mirror has called the VILE-CANO, hyphenated in case their readers didn't get it!) Maybe we could go for the more snappy title of Smallpipes

[NSP] morpeth museum site

2010-04-20 Thread Dave S
Hello all, Can some kind person pass on a more meaningful, corrected text for the Chantry to Ann -- or is this the level that passes for English in todays' world. extracted home page text follows:- * Housed in Morpeth's medieval Chantry buildings since 1987, the Bagpipe Museum his home to a

[NSP] Re: morpeth museum site and more time travel

2010-04-20 Thread Christopher.Birch
todays' world. How many todays is that? Or is this what passes for punctuation in today's world? ;-) The text ain't that bad. An obvious typo, wrong tense, superfluous spaces and a bit of wordiness. I'd suggest the following revision. * The Bagpipe Museum has been housed in Morpeth's

[NSP] Re: morpeth museum site and more time travel

2010-04-20 Thread Gordon Brown
Curiously enough, the last sentence of the original is correct, the organisation is called the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne. See http://www.newcastle-antiquaries.org.uk/ for details. Gordon -Original Message- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu

[NSP] Re: morpeth museum site and more time travel

2010-04-20 Thread Christopher.Birch
Curiously enough, the last sentence of the original is correct, the organisation is called the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne. Oops, I hadn't been aware of that. Thx. c To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[NSP] Re: Smallpipes Simulator

2010-04-20 Thread Anthony Robb
True, but perfection and beauty are not always found together methinks. In 1971 I played pipes on the Topic album Transpennine. The track was Nelly O' Bob's ot Crowtrees. David Hillery changed the key from G to A on the morning of recording and my pipes wouldn't do A drones so I

[NSP] Re: Where can I get a shiny new bag?

2010-04-20 Thread Bob Salter
Hi, I actually meant a pipe bag, ie for tying in the stocks and drones rather than a case but thanks anyway. Bob -- From: Bob Salter bob.salter1...@googlemail.com Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 10:44 AM To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [NSP]

[NSP] Simon and Garfunkel - Fakin' It

2010-04-20 Thread Ian Lawther
This afternoon I was in a Starbucks killing a little time before collection a child from school and suddenly realized I was hearing The Redesdale Hornpipe over the sound system under a lot of other arranged music. Checking the screen on which the shop shows what is playing I saw it was a Simon

[NSP] Re: Simon and Garfunkel - Fakin' It

2010-04-20 Thread STEPHEN DOUGLASS
Check out 'Beverley Martyn' Ian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverley_Martyn On Apr 20, 2010, at 7:12 PM, Ian Lawther wrote: This afternoon I was in a Starbucks killing a little time before collection a child from school and suddenly realized I was hearing The Redesdale Hornpipe over

[NSP] Re: Simon and Garfunkel - Fakin' It

2010-04-20 Thread Ian Lawther
'she's the one who says in the middle of the song: Good morning, Mr Leitch, have you had a busy day.' I wonder if this is a reference to Donovan Leitch who Simon would certainly have come across while in Britain. Ian STEPHEN DOUGLASS wrote: Check out 'Beverley Martyn' Ian.