Hello.
Sorry, I'm wandering off the smallpipes topics again, but lots of
people here have fingers in various musical pies and valuable experience.
- and I do plan to be introducing smallpipes into our ceilidh band
soon, so it's not entirely off topic!
Please has anyone experience of the
I was listening recently to a trio playing 17th/18th Cent. divisions on
La Folia on the radio, and was struck afresh by how similar are some of
the things appearing in the nsp variations.
(And yet different.)[Special aside for Round the Horn listeners :) ]
Divisions on viols or
Richard, not only is it on topic but it's a very live topic (for me at
least).
I was lecturing yesterday at Glasgow for the 3rd year Piping Degree
students (as Highland pipers they are exposed to two hours of Border
pipe music in three years...) and the Dixon variations - which
It's hard to get across to anyone in Scotland that music didn't start
with the Gows, but it didn't, and the genius of the Scottish fiddle,
John MacLachlan, flourished c. 1700, and his variation sets on Scots
tunes set the gold standard. They mainly survive in lute transcriptions
and
