:50 AM
Subject: [NSP] Re: small coals, and the peacock following the hen
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Anthony Robb
[1][3]anth...@robbpipes.com wrote:
Here is what Forster Charlton, Colin Ross and Roland Wright put
in the
introduction to the second edition
Hello Derek'
In a way you've answered your own question.
G D drones would presumably have been used originally for these tunes
as they probably precede the development of tuning beads but they don't
sound right to many people.
Here is what Forster Charlton, Colin Ross and
Hello Mike
I agree there is nothing of the Hedworth style in this set - keys
especially. Hedworth taught silver smithing to Colin Ross and was a
master of beautiful keywork. His style is unique with the key stem
shaped and silver soldered to reach completely across the domed round
Hello all,
Here's my offering.
[1]http://youtu.be/sfiCRPct9vQ
Warmest best
Anthony
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Hello All,
John Dally has kindly invited me to choose the TOTM for February and it is:
The Keelman Ower Land
This tune has been a favourite since 1973 when (according to Johnny
Handle) Carole I gave its first public airing in years. It is still
yielding up its secrets 38 years
Hello Kevin
First off, I'm assuming you mean tube and not rod? I follow Mike
Nelson's advice on this and use model aircraft aluminium fuel tubing
- 4mm internal, 4.75mm external diameters.
This is very easily cut to length with a large scalpel/sharp Stanley
knife ( simply roll it
Hello Kevin and all
I noticed this in Kevin's email:
...so i closed the G hole with glue at one side until it was in tune.
I'm wondering why you put the glue at one side rather than the top?
Putting glue at the side will flatten the note by making the hole
smaller but this
Hellos apiece,
Some might be interested to know I've put the dots for all of the
tracks on 'The Primitives' album as pdf files in a handy zipped folder.
Several people have asked for this and I made an attempt to put down
the dots as close to the versions on the album as I could
For the benefit of dancers, callers and dance band members, I forgot to
say the tune is great for the 'Ideal Schottische' and Pete's dots come
complete with his seconds which really do make a tasty job of the whole
piece.
Cheers
Anthony
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Hello Folks
John Dally's beautifully paced hornpipes (and
their snaps) connect really well for me with this new tune by Pete
Cryer which is about two weeks old. This version is a reasonable
attempt at it (recorded shortly after I learnt it on Tuesday evening)
once again recorded
Hello all
Some may remember I used Jimmy Little's (Baty of Wark) set for The
Bewshaugh and Rememebr Me Hornpipes. This set has now been checked and
valued by Graham Wells and Jimmy has offered to sell it to me.
Consequently I need to sell (reluctantly) a lovely blackwood and solid
Hellos apiece
Here we go - flawed as usual - two great tunes that are becoming
popular but could be more so.
I've been doing up Jimmy Little's pipes which have spent the last 18
years languishing in their box.
I've given them a new chanter reed and have re-tongued three of the
Hello Francis
Can't help on that front but I'm told Jack Armstrong would launch into
that tune when his glass was empty.
Anthony
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From: Francis Wood oatenp...@googlemail.com
Subject: [NSP] Farewell to
Some might be interested to know I sent a couple of tracks
recorded recently by Emily Alice down to Radio 3.
The response has been very positive and as a result they will be
playing on this week's 'In Tune' (Thurs 15 Sept. 16:30 - 18:30 local
time).
Anthony
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Hello Hilary - not if you do all 73 verses!
Anthony
--- On Sun, 7/8/11, Hilary Paton h.pa...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
From: Hilary Paton h.pa...@blueyonder.co.uk
Subject: [NSP] Re: Trivia
To: Dartmouth NPS nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu, Francis Wood
oatenp...@googlemail.com
david...@pt.lu wrote:
From: Dave S david...@pt.lu
Subject: [NSP] Re: TOTM/shameless plug
To: Anthony Robb anth...@robbpipes.com
Cc: Dartmouth NPS nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Date: Sunday, 31 July, 2011, 21:00
Hi Anthony,
Would it be a possibility for you to play the 1697/8
--- On Sun, 31/7/11, Gibbons, John j.gibb...@imperial.ac.uk wrote:
Matt has argued an octave pair of drones tuned Gg will work for The
Peacock/Mad Moll and other harmonically similar tunes like Cuckold -
you want to show up the contrast between the Am and Cmaj in the first
and
Hello all
I've been reluctant to vote on this since our house is fighting back
whilst we put in a new kitchen, downstairs loo and new wee studio.
There is building dust everywhere and my pipes, mics and other gear are
packed away for the duration.
Even though I can't contribute
Hello Margaret
Thanks for that. I hear what you say re Jimmy but this is hardly an
obscure tune and it seems strange that he would pluck that name out of
the air as any other tune with that name is proving elusive.
As for the version in question you can hear it here:
--- On Fri, 15/7/11, Francis Wood [1]oatenp...@googlemail.com
wrote:Matt's question raises the interesting issue of how tunes by
known composers become 'traditional tunes' (what does that really
mean?)
Hello Francis
A rather good question. The full title of the 'Folk' degree
Hello Matt
Lovely!
--- On Fri, 15/7/11, Matt Seattle theborderpi...@googlemail.com
wrote:
From: Matt Seattle theborderpi...@googlemail.com
Subject: [NSP] Re: Shield's H'pipe
To: NSP group nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Date: Friday, 15 July, 2011, 12:42
Impressive,
, Matt Seattle theborderpi...@googlemail.com
wrote:
From: Matt Seattle theborderpi...@googlemail.com
Subject: [NSP] Re: Shield's H'pipe
To: Anthony Robb anth...@robbpipes.com
Cc: Dartmouth NPS nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Date: Thursday, 14 July, 2011, 20:23
Anthony
You
Hello Both
No, Matt it wasn't you it was Phil Ranson that did the original
interview and recording. He was a librarian who did quite a bit of
collecting. He lived near me when I lived in Wylam, he was at Hagg Bank
a mile up the river and was a very down to earth Geordie lad.
theborderpi...@googlemail.com
Subject: Re: [NSP] Rants
To: Anthony Robb anth...@robbpipes.com
Cc: Dartmouth NPS nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Date: Tuesday, 12 July, 2011, 20:19
Yes it got through but with some strange text added (EURYEN every so
often).
Interesting references Anthony
Hello Folks
Here's what the OED comes up with for 'rant':
...couE^ rant | carant, v. intr. To dance...
1. A kind of dance formerly in vogue, characterized by a running or gliding
step (as distinguished from leaping).
2.Music. The tune used for accompanying this dance, or a tune
Hello John
I think that's fairly close.
It is possible to do rants steps to reels, polkas and even jigs but in
the Northumbrian sense it is a subtle up-tempo near hornpipe that
really does help you to lift your feet off the ground and
move rhythmically around the floor for long
On Mon, 11/7/11, cal...@aol.com cal...@aol.com wrote:
All dancers really need is a strong down beat...Never really had a
dancer say, I can't dance this dance to that tune.
Hello Alec
I think the point here is not what can be danced to such and such a
tune but which style of
Hello John
Thank you very much for giving us those two tunes and taking on the
rant rhythm which brings back so many memories of nights shared with
the old guys. That particular set (done in reverse order) was a turning
point for me in my piping career when I attempted to join in
happy to
end it here.
Best wishes
Anthony
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From: Francis Wood oatenp...@googlemail.com
Subject: [NSP] Re: Breaking a promise
To: Anthony Robb anth...@robbpipes.com
Cc: Dartmouth NPS nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Apologies!
I deleted the wrong email address there!
Come back Barry, all is forgiven!
Anthony
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Hello Folks
After this I promise to go away and play my pipes for a week and leave
you all in peace
but I thought these might be of interest to some:
[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX-wAEtK_hM
They are three Willy Taylor Rants - a bit more gentle than the usual
rant
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It's a lot easier to play Roxborough Castle in dotted rhythm, as is
done here. I prefer it played absolutely straight, which is really very
challenging. A commonly played tune which is rarely played well. I
quite
--- On Thu, 30/6/11, Francis Wood oatenp...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hello Anthony,
I don't think we disagree. At Stuart Hardy's musical altitude, I'm sure
you're right.
That's a level I can only admire but never approach. On a more basic
level, playing the tune with a dotted
--- On Wed, 22/6/11, Matt Seattle theborderpi...@googlemail.com
wrote:
OK Anthony, I won't discuss it, but how good to hear Mr Preston's
Hornpipe, it suits the NSP very well IMO.
Hello Matt
Many thanks for putting us right on the name of the 2nd tune.
I'll tell the lasses
Here is a link to a video clip (kindly supplied by Pete Ashby) of Alice
Emily's controversial playing. It was taken when the band played in
support of The Chantry Museum.
Certain members may wish to delete this message at this point.
The clip is mainly for the benefit of those
Hello Richard
I have to bow to Matt's much greater academic knowledge on this one but
I still offer a lesser mortal's thoughts:
The old guys I played with were dance driven and would invariably
resolve tunes in the manner you describe.
As far as my own preference is concerned I
Hello Rick
I have great difficulty with your implication that Billy Pigg was not a
'proper' piper.
Best wishes
Anthony
--- On Thu, 16/6/11, Rick Damon richard.a.damon@dartmouth.edu
wrote:
From: Rick Damon richard.a.damon@dartmouth.edu
Subject: [NSP] Re:
Pauline Francis
This looks wonderful!
Here's another quote from the publicity:
In Britain and Ireland, the tradition of playing bellows-blown bagpipes
exists to this day, primarily in the traditional dance repertoire.
[1]http://4pipers.wordpress.com/
That rings so true as
Sorry folks the link in my last email is broken. For anyone interested
try this one.
[1]www.robbpipes.com/WillWillyTalkHighBleakhope
Cheers
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Are they rivalists as well as revivalists?
--- On Mon, 23/5/11, Francis Wood oatenp...@googlemail.com wrote:
From: Francis Wood oatenp...@googlemail.com
Subject: [NSP] Re: new group
To: Mark Stayton mark.stay...@pipersgathering.org
Cc: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Date:
-- On Sat, 21/5/11, inky-adrian inky-adr...@ntlworld.com wrote:
This is not Northumberland Smallpipe-playing. The player choytes. The
player slides into notes too. Staccato rules!
Hello Adrian
As I made clear to you offlist Alice's playing would not be to your
taste but I did
--- On Sat, 21/5/11, Zack Arbios zaxco...@aol.com wrote:
Reminds me of the epic gulf between Seumas Macneill and Gordon Duncan.
For Adrian, Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? (and I am
a great admirer of what I can see of your playing)
I enjoyed Emily's playing,
On Fri, 20/5/11, christopher.bi...@ec.europa.eu
christopher.bi...@ec.europa.eu wrote:
I think the most likely explanation for the pipes would be that Alice
was playing a chanter in concert F sharp. In nominal terms this would
put her in F, with B flat the only unusual note.
--- On Fri, 20/5/11, Francis Wood oatenp...@googlemail.com wrote:
Lovely item, Anthony! Got any more?
Only the two they did on the CD.
Emily arrived back from the States on Saturday but she has already
started working on material for an album with Alice which we hope to
start
Busy with real music so briefly:
Tim Adrian:
Tune in E maj on G chanter - the A part has about 78 notes and 62 of
them are played on the right thumb so even electronic pipes don't help
unless of course you cheat by electronically transposing.
Barry: Tradition is wonderful but
Hello folks
There may be one or two apart from Adrian interested in the Alice
person.
Here she is playing with Emily Hoile at the Chantry Museum last night
for the Windy Gyle Band Force 6 launch. This won't be to everyone's
liking but gives a flavour of what she Emily get up to
On Tue, 17/5/11, inky-adrian inky-adr...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Dear all,
Who is this Allis thingy person?
What are you on about, Anthony?
E major..no!
She can't do it-unless it's crap
Adrian
Hello Adrian
I'm wonderting if you need to get out more?
Alice Burn is a
it would all be done by ear but she did
express delight (and surprise) that a piper could manage it.
Cheers
Anthony
From: Dave Shaw d...@daveshaw.co.uk
Subject: [NSP] Re: even more on G and D
To: Dartmouth NPS nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu, Anthony Robb
anth...@robbpipes.com
Date
Hello Dave all
Catriona has got back to me:
The tune was called the Lounge Bar - written by Norwegian fiddler
Annlaug Borsheim.
I've asked her for the dots if poss.
Something has clicked in my old brain and I'm thinking it might have
been a jig - not a reel - but it fairly
--- On Tue, 17/5/11, Gibbons, John j.gibb...@imperial.ac.uk wrote:
It is remarkable that an Emaj tune can be played successfully, 4 sharps
away from the NSP's home key. It might be easier if the tune was on a
gapped scale rather than full-blown E major, but it is hard to avoid
the
down to just her and Alice to really punch it along as a middle tune in
a great set.
Anthony
--- On Tue, 17/5/11, Rick Damon richard.a.damon@dartmouth.edu
wrote:
From: Rick Damon richard.a.damon@dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: [NSP] Re: E major tune
To: Anthony Robb anth
Ian Lawther wrote:
I don't know if Mike Nelson is doing much making these days but he is
in Cambridge and therefore local which could be an advantaqe.
Hello all
Mike has just taken delivery of enough bits of Sage pipes to make 6
sets for use at this years' Cambridge Festival
Francis wood wrote today:
There's no reason to suppose that Robert and James Reid were careless
about the consistency of pitch of their products. No doubt, they would
be extremely surprised to know of the latitude in pitch (and indeed
tuning) of many of today's pipes.
Hello
Hello Folks
* Yes, reeds make a huge difference. In general I use different reed
patterns to converge pitch, that's why I have 4 different patterns
just for 'F' chanters.
* When I referred to a modern trend towards concert F (A=440) I did
not for a millisecond
Christopher Birch wrote recently:
I don't know exactly how flat A = 398 is but it can't be very far off
F+, given that A = 392 would correspond to concert G.
I wonder if Anthony would agree therefore that since lots of the notes
are sharp, a good starting point would be to pull
Chris, John, Dru others
In no particular order:
* I set my Korg DA 30 to 446 using the calibration button and take it
from there
* I've got a chanter in for overhaul at the moment and have just seen
the top B rise in pitch bt 20 cents by moving a plunger in from
--- On Mon, 7/2/11, Matt Seattle theborderpi...@googlemail.com
wrote:
From: Matt Seattle theborderpi...@googlemail.com
Subject: [NSP] Re: Tuning
To: Dartmouth NPS nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Date: Monday, 7 February, 2011, 16:41
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Anthony
From Chris Gregg:
So that is why my pipes always sound out of tune, and I thought it
was
just poor musicianship on my part!
The whole tuning thing is a bit of a quagmire, and as a solo
instrument
it is not a problem, but I would like to know how people get
What a lovely thought, Philip.
Thanks too for the warnings about possible pitfalls with the flake
shellac method. By and large it works really well but there be problems
if the soldering iron hasn't reached max temp.
Anthony
--- On Sat, 15/1/11, Philip Gruar
Hello Francis and Paul
David B uses shellac on his silver mounted sets.
As Paul's set is made from lignum it won't be a Burleigh set. So
shellac seems to make sense in this case.
When it comes to pad fixing Mike Nelson's method of using a small piece
of flake shellac between pad
Thanks John. It's a gem!
Sunny up here on the plateau.
Francis
I agree that this is a wonderful article and would like to add a couple
of tips which are worth a try:
1. The gentlest way to close a reed (best with cane but can work for
composite with care) is to roll it
Hello Mike
Ian Corrigan recommends lemon oil as a pleasant, not too viscious
cleaning liquid.
It also, he reckons, gives wood a near invisible but protective coat. I
haven't tried it but think it might be worth a try. The border pipes he
made for Paul Martin are a visual and
not too viscious .. neither too viscous or too viscous
AARRHHGGG!
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Hello Julia Bo
Thanks for the warning. To be fair to Ian he's the sort of guy that
doesn't laquer his pipes or use plastic mounts. He was recommending
this purely for keeping natural wood and nickel silver clean
and looking good.
On the olive oil question those who used/use it
Hello Julia John
Drink To Me Only was also the first tune played on pipes by David
Hillery, Ron Elliott, Gerry Murphy and me. Past down presumably
from Tom C by Colin Caisley and chosen because it was already in our
heads so to speak.
We all worked at it by finding our way
Hello Matt
I feel my comments need clarification,
For the record, in general I think drones are fantastic, and used all 4
together: GDdg on the Whittingham/Glen Aln/Lads of Alnwick track on the
WG album. I realize this is anachronistic for Lads aEUR| (also fairly
tiring) but
Matt
Absolutely!
Anthony
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From: Matt Seattle theborderpi...@googlemail.com
Subject: [NSP] Re: Doublin' (Keenan Glackin)
To: Anthony Robb anth...@robbpipes.com
Cc: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu nsp
Hello John
That is the extreme but it happens fairly regularly and if people have
signed up for a day's workshop (or longer) and have travelled some
distance that's the way I deal with it.
It has to be said that I do prefer the higher pitch sound
personally and so have 3 F
their crystalline
punchiness to the mix just because they have to be droneless?
Cheers
Anthony
--- On Thu, 6/1/11, Gibbons, John j.gibb...@imperial.ac.uk wrote:
From: Gibbons, John j.gibb...@imperial.ac.uk
Subject: RE: [NSP] Re: Concertina Tuning
To: Anthony Robb anth
...@imperial.ac.uk wrote:
From: Gibbons, John j.gibb...@imperial.ac.uk
Subject: [NSP] Re: Concertina Tuning
To: 'Anthony Robb' anth...@robbpipes.com, nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu, rob@milecastle27.co.uk
rob@milecastle27.co.uk
Date: Friday, 7 January, 2011, 10
Of Anthony Robb
Sent: 07 January 2011 10:52
To: [3]...@cs.dartmouth.edu; [4]rob@milecastle27.co.uk; Gibbons,
John
Subject: [NSP] Re: Concertina Tuning
What you say is true, but still ignores Paddy Maloney's point of
adding
drones further into (even 'proper') pipes tunes
If any UP fans haven't heard this album or others want to know more,
it was released 31 years ago but has been redone on CD and is available
at Amazon: (for UK readers)
[1]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Doublin-Paddy-Glackin/dp/B4SCTK/ref=sr_1
_4?ie=UTF8qid=1294413475sr=8-4
This
And I love the Glackin Keenan record too, I haven't heard it for ages
but it used to really fire me up, it has The Juice.
(Matt)
And at 8.99 GBP surely the best value music CD online this year!!
Anthony
PS John G is a sharp as a broken pisspot (as we say up/down here) and I
--- On Thu, 6/1/11, rob@milecastle27.co.uk
rob@milecastle27.co.uk wrote:
It's a case of trying and seeing what you like. The other way round
this would be for the piper not to play drones ... but I wouldn't
recommend that approach.
cheers
Rob
Sorry to disagree,
Chris,
1) Viols: apologies (silly, subjective choice of words)
2) Nasty synthetic reverb: you have good ears, I agree
3) Jacky Layton: excellent tune but it might be a big ask to get it in
your head quickly
John,
Yes, it takes ages and some bars need more ages than
helen.ca...@paradise.net.nz
Subject: [NSP] Re: technique etcetera
To: John Dally dir...@gmail.com, NSP group
nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Date: Wednesday, 22 December, 2010, 7:50
Quote from Anthony Robb:
May I suggest picking one tune that really speaks to us but isn't yet
inside
One thing I would like to mention w.r.t. this tune is watch out for the
Scotchy snaps in bars 29, 30 31. The one in bar 28 is nice but the
rest over egg the pudding for me and could be near disastrous if you
were doing the tune in waltz style!
Cheers
Anthony
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Yesterday John Gibbons wrote:
Is 'the NSP don't move Anthony as much as the fiddle does', a sentence
about the NSP or about Anthony?
He has now explained that this is his own paraphrase based on something
I wrote about one particular tune played by two top rank players on the
From John Gibbons
or the horrible slurred playing some people go in for
I take it this is a very different thing to the slurs in Chris
Ormston's Blackbird?
Anthony
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Richard York wrote a very thoughtful posting ending:
And yes, a really good player can make a poorer [insert instrument name
here] sound better, and a music-less player is never going to make
anything sound wonderful, but I do feel there are too many
instruments
of
Thanks, Helen, for making me look more deeply into my words.
Highest is, on deeper thought, a bad choice as pipes in the right
hands (as Inky Adrian recently pointed out) hit the heart and brain
every bit as surely as, say, Heifitz or indeed Choralation (Rowan
Johnston's New
Today John Gibbons wrote:
Is 'the NSP don't move Anthony as much as the fiddle does', a sentence
about the NSP or about Anthony?
The answer has to be it's about both. My question is where did the
sentence come from? Definitely not the email you are replying to, where
I said,
Hello John
It had exactly the same effect on me despite being besotted by the
original Tom Clough 78 (which Ron Elliott bought by chance in Harrogate
market in the late 60s).
The postman delivered Billy's album as I was leaving for the lab at
Aston. I put it on the record player
John, I know what you mean. I also think that fiddle and pipes in duet
are a Northumbrian version of 'Himmel un Aed'.
If I may rewind the discussion and with particular reference to the
Chris Ormston's Blackbird, I have to say it is a far superior track
to anything I managed to
Hello Tim
Wonderful stuff!
Discuss?
I'll have to print off, re-read (probably several times) and inwardly
digest it first.
It has, however, already given me a warm glow which more than
compensates for the sub -zero temperature outside.
Cheers
Anthony
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Hello John
This is what Doubleday said of the pipes (my underscores):
Thus, this instrument is limited to a single octave; and this (little
as it is) admits of all the airs, to which it is really suited, being
executed by it's means ; with the additional improvement that it may be
Hello Richard
Doubleday wrote:
The Northumberland small-pipe is fitted up upon the plan of
construction common to all bagpipes aEUR that is to say, aEUR it
consists of a pipe with stops, by means of which the melody is played,
and of three longer pipes sounding different
Hello Colin and Richard
I agree with much you say.
I like the comparison with apples and potatoes.
But that is exactly what Doubleday is saying: 'don't try and make chips
with apples or apple crumble with potatoes'.
Cheers
Anthony
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John Dally recently wrote:
I have a friend with a very nice seven key lignam vitae chanter that
doesn't get played very much. I'll have to offer to help him keep in
in working order. ;-) Many thanks!
Hello John
The chances are it will be a goodun, but just as (for me) Del
Hello John
Like everything else it is a compromise and also depends on what you
want to play.
Having said that a point will be reached when increased physical effort
makes it harder to play sensitively. The first 17 key chanter I ever
tried was a Clough - Picknell one which had
Hello John
There might be a bit of confusion here. If you look at your high B key
you'll see that it is just about at the very top of the chanter. Colin
Ross managed to squeezee in a top C in place of a high Bb key but to
get up to highC# would be impossible on the pipes as the
Thanks Rob, that looks just the job!
Anthony
--- On Sun, 12/12/10, Rob Say rob@milecastle27.co.uk wrote:
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Subject: [NSP] Re: TV
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Date: Sunday, 12 December, 2010, 9:20
Morning - I have heard of a
Here's a link to a snippet of tonight's programme on clogging.
[1]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11930757
Cheers
Anthony
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On 11/12/10 Richard York wrote:
And a truly smashing hour it was! Cheered up our evening no end, it
did.
Stuff like this really is what we need now, it was truly inspiring.
Couldn't agree more, Richard.
He's the link for the programme on iPlayer if anyone missed it but is
Hello amazing people
Apologies for tardy reply (a Newcastle uni day - not helped by frantic
70mile detour to Alnwick to retrieve a one off spec teaching chanter
left in the BB chest of drawers after Alnwick Gathering!)
I've been overwhelmed by the time and trouble taken to help me
Thanks folks
Another fascinating discussion.
I first had this tune as a song from Johnny Handle in the late 60s and
then sang it often to my own bairns. As 'deary' was no longer in
popular use on Tyneside by then ( I never heard it from parents,
grandparents or great grand
Hill
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To: Dartmouth NPS [2]...@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 7:07 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: Where hast thou been all the night?
To John Julia Matt and all
This has been
Hello Colin
I seem to remember Bill Ochs at Killington this year demonstrating
software which can slow down normal recordings whilst keeping pitch
intact. Perhaps you could contact him: [1]b...@pennywhistle.com and
spread the word if I'm right.
Thoroughly agree about abc being
To John Julia Matt and all
This has been a wonderful interchange and highly enjoyable save in one
respect. The horrible midi noise made as my computer plays the
examples. I can't be the only one who would love to hear the points
made on the instrument(s) the tune(s) was/were
On 31 Oct Richard York wrote lots including:
Henry Mayhew in the 1850's interviewed Old Sarah a blind Londonstreet
hurdy gurdy player who was taught in the very early years of the
1800's
to play what she called the cymbal.
Richard
Can't help with the tunes I'm afraid
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