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From: brimor bri...@aol.com
To: theborderpiper theborderpi...@googlemail.com
Sent: Wed, Feb 29, 2012 3:48 pm
Subject: Re: [NSP] Re: March 2012 TOTM: Adam a Bell selected by Julia Say
It certainly is also useful to read in G and play in F, if you are a fiddler
I seem to be unable to pick up any of the several slots, those with Alice and
those of Emily alone. Is anyone else having the same probl;em? Can anyone
suggest a way of seeing and hearing them?
Sheila
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From: Francis Wood oatenp...@googlemail.com
To: Anthony
In our search for the correct way to play a piece, I think that we are all
overlooking the point that composers tend to make minor (occasionally major)
alterations in a lot of their pieces (embellishments, dynamics and even notes
and whole phrases) each time they perform, depending on their
Hi Chris,
I am sure that you will be finding Anthony Robb's suggestions most helpful.
He is a most practical person as well as being a very good player. No doubt
you have his two CDs, Windy Gyle and Force 6
I don't know what other instruments you play. At some point I think you said
Hi Alan,
In connection with the question of intonation and the perception of
in-tune-ness, your quotation is very interesting. Violinists have the
problem of having to decide whether to tune their A to whatever has been
decided as the pitch for the ensemble with which they are playing 440,
What really got me interested was the gift of Kathryn's first cassette, On
Kielder Side. Wonderful music! It was given to me by friends who live on
Orkney and heard her at the Orkney festival. At that point I was trying to
learn to play the Highland chanter. The teacher had just received
Sorry, Anthony, but that's the way we 're hearing it also. I know that it
sounded interesting when you combined Windy Gyle Slow Air and fast Jig, but
interesting is not the adjective I'd use for this combination.
Sheila
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From: Anthony Robb
Greetings friends,
Can anyone send me the current e-mail for David Burleigh? I would indeed be
most grateful.
Hoping you all are enjoying the last days of summer, in the northern
hemisphere, and the approaching spring in the southern hemisphere. Here in
western PA we are having some
Hi Edric,
So glad to have a reminder of this museum. It certainly is one of the most
fascinating for musical instruments. We have not been back to it for several
years, although we were in Brussels this spring (staying with some good
friends). I am sure that many of the NSP members do
In Trinidad there is a tradition to only cut bamboo on Dark nights', otherwise
it will quickly be destroyed by insects. Research shows that more
photosynthesis occurs when the moon is shining so that there is a greater
accumulation of starch ( a favourite food of insects) when the moon is
When the bags are going through the scanning cameras I always say, These are
bagpipes, they probably look peculiar,. Frequently the reaction is, oh,
we've never seen bagpipes, Then, turning to the rest of the security crew,
Come and take a good look at them. Occasionally it involves you
Hi John, Steve and all,
Would you say that this conforms to the limits of the list?
Hopefully,
Sheila
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From: bri...@aol.com
To: dir...@gmail.com
Sent: Sat, Feb 6, 2010 6:51 pm
Subject: Re: [NSP] NSP duet with other instruments
Hi John,
Yes, as Matt
Yes, Chris, you are absolutely right both about amatuer orchestras and that
among the enormous amount of people who took music lessons in the 20th
century the arts of playing by ear, improvizing etc did appear to have been
lost. However, I remember that in one section of the final exam for
I'll give my half-pennyworth and then shut up.
I admire and respect quite a lot of folk musicians who play only by ear., I
also admire and respect quite a lot of classically trained musicians who play
from the dots, and it seems that many who are damning the classically trained
on this
This is to other pipers who have been to Germany to any of the piping events or
workshops and have probably met the excellent pipe-maker, Uwe Seitz and his
charming wife, Rosalba. She also played the Norhumbrian pipes, and other
pipes, and helped Uwe in both his pipe-making and teaching.
Hi Anthony,
Windy Gyle is such a beautiful CD, we play it over and over.? If anything . ..
Appelbo is maybe a trifle too slow but, as Colin said, you can play a tune any
way you like it best and, after all, maybe?the walkers were?admiring the view
as they went.??
Could you send me the
I really hate to prolong this discussion, but just want to point out that in
the mid '90s I persistently begged and pleaded, in person, by e-mail and?by
snail mail, ?with the NPS chairman and committee members to organize a
week-long piping course such as Susan is now doing, and was told it
This word stuff is interesting. We tried a similar test on our
then 6yr old grandson and he had no problem reading it aloud straight
away. Similarly with music, people find that as they continue with
reading not only do they pick up the bar/phrase at a glance, but they
also hear the music
I just had to pass this on as a change from some of the current threads.
Sheila
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From: schenk2...@windstream.net
To: John Bridges bri...@aol.com
Sent: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 3:59 pm
Subject: piper
THE IRISH BAGPIPPER
As a young bagpiper, I was asked by a funeral
For heaven's sake, don't let us get back to all the back-biting and
bitching of the previous messages - making unjustified allusions to
people, without mentioning names etc. If classical music had remained
in the tradition Mozart would have been shot, Beethoven would never
have dared to
Hi Valerio,
Probably you have already received replies about Wet Monday. In
case you have not done so, herewith:-
Composed by Fiona Davison in 1993. It was written on a wet Monday
morning as part of a portfolio of compositions for Fiona's Advanced
Level Music
Matt,
My husband, being interested in boats as well as in music, was
intrigued by the words, and by the comment which someone made about
keels being the sea-going boats as well as those used on the Tyne.
Evidently similar boats were used on rivers and canals, at least in
I urgently need the words of Maa Bonny Lad Can anyone come to my
rescue?
Please e-mail to[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanking whomsoever in advance.
Sheila
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Going back to your initial e-mail, Barry, that many solos used to be
played at NSP gatherings in the early days - at least before 1990,
and now very few choose to stand up on their own before the
gang. -
At that point in time there weren't many expert pipers other
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Allan,
As you have noticed, the small pipes are not tuned to a tempered scale
and the E is frequently deliberately tuned so that it is correct
when playing in A major and a minor i.e. a perfect fifth with the A
(as Colin already mentioned). This means that it is not going to
As you can probably well imagine this altering of names has occurred
very frequently with immigrants whose names seemed quite
unintelligible to the immigration authorities. A good friend told us
the other day that his father and his 2 uncles (father's brothers)
all arrived in
Probably you have already had replies, in case not - this is usually played
as a transposing instrument when playing the traditional NSP tunes. i.e.
you read G but it sounds D (the note above middle C on piano).
It is up to you what you do when playing any other music.
In other
Greetings Roger,
I have found Dick Hensold's exercises very helpful
([EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) ) . Although he is not a
Northumbrian, he does play the NSP very well and is an excellent teacher.
Sheila
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As most people have already said, the written note is most useful, does show
the pitch of the note and its duration, and is one of the best ways of
preserving compositions for future generations. However so much more is not
conveyed.I know that the discussion is mainly related to folk
I agree with Matt that is a very interesting discussion. However, I don't
think that those of you who live at the centre of the NSP world can realize
how difficult it is for those of us, who live many thousands of miles away, to
know what the true Northumbrian tradition is. To us there
Presumably the Traditional tunes for the NSP would be among those included
in the basic tune books. However I have reason to believe that many of
these started life as fiddle tunes and many more, which lie beautifully on the
pipes (such as Madame Bonapart) came from other parts of what
Hi Sam,
As a player of several classical and folk instruments, for many of which I
also compose in what many people might consider not the strictly traditional
style for a given instrument - I really appreciated your common sense, broad
minded comments.
Sheila
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