Great idea, Ian. Perhaps we could practice by descending upon him
sometime this summer?
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Ian Lawther irlawt...@comcast.net wrote:
I can't help thinking that for next year the Pacific North West piping group
should move their meeting at this time of year to the
On 18 Mar 2011, Julia Say wrote:
The newsletter has been posted (18 March).
Judging by early reports, it's on a very slow train this time (like 4 days to
get 7
miles!)
Don't know what the mail is up to, but hopefully it will reach most Uk members
by
the end of the week.
If you want to
I was pondering recently, both on the stacatto effect of the keys, the
difficulties in only having two fingers free to hit keys, and also
thinking about whether a person missing a hand could play bagpipes in
general.
A thought occurred to me: have any NSP been made which had every
Interesting... would it actually be easier, with all keys and
therefore all fingers [] available
to hit keys ?
As it is I'm still teaching my fingers when to move to make all the
notes faster, and still letting my thumb little finger learn which
position is which, but most of the
A saxophone is a woodwind without any open holes covered by fingers.
Some holes are always open to make notes, but all of them are closed
by a key pad, as opposed to fingers like the other woodwinds you
mention, Colin.
I suspect if you covered all the holes with keys and pads you would
lose a lot
One obvious response is that playing finger holes on NSP is faster and
more 'positive' than playing keyed notes. Half of this may be down to
the poor dexterity of the little finger, but I can't play
even thumb-keyed notes as crisply as open-holed ones. There's something
in Tom
Adrian,
I stand corrected
Only the one known example, I take it?
How do you mean part-Union?
Do you mean a wholly keyed NSP chanter,
cylindrical bored and closed ended, but with UP drones and regulators?
I must go and look at it - even if they (it?) never caught on,
The American uilleann pipe maker Patsy Brown made uilleann pipes with
keys on all the holes. The only picture I can find on line is rather
small but is at
http://www.lemccullough.com/LEMcCullough/Music-Biography_files/PatsyBrown-filtered.jpg
A larger copy of this appears in Patrick Sky's
