Listing has ended anyway (Australia is ahead of us on time so it's tomorrow
there today)
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Gibbons, John j.gibb...@imperial.ac.uk
To: John Dally dir...@gmail.com; NSP group nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 5:38 PM
Subject: [NSP
Sorry, meant to add it was sold on Friday 25th March (hence the attempt at a
joke) for 950 AU.
Still like to know if those notes were right or if it was a special
though.
Colin Hill
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From: Colin cwh...@santa-fe.freeserve.co.uk
To: NSP group nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
interesting discussion though.
Colin Hill
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From: Richard York rich...@lizards.force9.co.uk
To: NSP group nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 11:34 AM
Subject: [NSP] Re: Has there ever been an NSP with _all_ keys (no open
holes)?
And given
the technology to set, say, A=440 and make
comparisons for tuning, our forbears were not so lucky.
The reason they traditionally/originally tune to the oboe A, of course.
I wonder how many orchestras tuned to an Oboe that was several cents out?
Colin Hill
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From: Paul
a copy of that book and read it.
Colin Hill
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From: Philip Gruar phi...@gruar.clara.net
To: julia@nspipes.co.uk; Dartmouth NPS nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 11:29 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: Tuning/pitch
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From
exist show this or not?
On a similar vein, what did people tune things to (prior to the invention of
the tuning for in 1711).
Colin Hill
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From: Anthony Robb anth...@robbpipes.com
To: Dartmouth NPS nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 10:08 AM
Which were tuned with reference to..
Colin Hill
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From: gibbonssoi...@aol.com
To: cwh...@santa-fe.freeserve.co.uk; nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 9:27 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: Tuning/pitch
Before the tuning fork was invented
should be just that - a standard. If it changes, it ain't
standard!
Good interesting thread though.
Colin Hill
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From: christopher.bi...@ec.europa.eu
To: drubrooketay...@btinternet.com; nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 11:45 AM
Subject: [NSP] Re
not).
Colin Hill
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From: Bo Albrechtsen b...@glaipnir.dk
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 9:45 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: re-conditioning ... (dangers of brass tarnish?)
Den 14-01-2011 21:39, [1]gibbonssoi...@aol.com skrev:
..snip
With brass, the same
Did you mean haven't written yet?
Next years competitions maybe? :-)
Colin Hill
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On 14 Jan 2011, at 23:57, gibbonssoi...@aol.com wrote:
Is 'The rotting of the cotton threads' the title of a tune I haven't
learned yet?
To get on or off this list see list
Thanks so much, John, Francis, I'll try climbing out of the ravine
today.
Colin
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:11 PM, John Liestman [1]j...@liestman.com
wrote:
Francis, you must have the earlier pre-plateau version!
I have posted a pdf file version at
[2]http
(it was an aid to tuning by ear) and showed how far out you were (I
think it also had a this is how it should sound audio as well).
Anyone remember it (I lost the URL several PCs ago) and does it still exist?
Colin Hill
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From: Gibbons, John j.gibb...@imperial.ac.uk
To: nsp
and low D drone) cost £36. I did have to drill a hole in the
G drone to use the A as the cover was there but Bill hadn't drilled the
actual hole under it).
I then made my first (and last) visit to the AGM (by rail) and gawped at the
likes of Colin Ross and Forster Charlton being
just can't see a point in
comparing apples and potatoes (you choose which is which).
Colin Hill
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From: Richard York rich...@lizards.force9.co.uk
To: Anthony Robb anth...@robbpipes.com; NSP group
nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 11:28 PM
Subject
at least three times
now.
iPlayer doesn't like my slow dirge of a PC.
Colin Hill
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From: John Dally dir...@gmail.com
To: Richard York rich...@lizards.force9.co.uk
Cc: Anthony Robb anth...@robbpipes.com; NSP group
nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010
- just a black box where they
should be.
It was, however, possible to download the clips using Firefox's
DownloadHelper and play them off the hard disc.
My system is quite old (like me). WinXP.
I have no idea why the mediaplayers don't show up at all in Firefox though.
Colin Hill
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set
on my 60th birthday.
Contact / call off-list if you need any help advice from someone who
has recently gone through the learning process without any local help.
Colin McNaught
Annapolis, MD
410 849 2961
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Reid Bishop
[2]greidbis
- it's in
the Paul Corin museum in Cornwall which I visited many times - and the
difference between that and a general pianola is remarkable.
I think of midi as the blank canvas on which to paint the music.
Colin Hill
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From: Anthony Robb anth...@robbpipes.com
at the same
tempo would do as I really don't know that much about abc either) :-)
Thanks,
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Anthony Robb anth...@robbpipes.com
To: Dartmouth NPS nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 7:07 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: Where hast thou been all
Totally agree. Information is great to have even if we don't act on it
(yet). Please continue.
Colin Hill
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From: cal...@aol.com
To: theborderpi...@googlemail.com; nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 11:43 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: Where hast though
All you need to know:
http://www.hurdygurdy.farmcom.net/front.html
I actually play a flatback gurdy (not by this maker) from Germany made by
Helmut Seibert..
There's something about drones..
Colin Hill
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From: Gibbons, John j.gibb...@imperial.ac.uk
) so she
was still alive but, of course, unlikely to be taken from life (and we do
all know how accurate newspapers, journals and books are, don't we).
Colin Hill
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From: Richard York rich...@lizards.force9.co.uk
To: NSP group nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Sunday, October
Oops, of course a daguerreotype is a photograph so probably was accurate
after all (red face).
That's a hurdy gurdy she's holding regardless of what she called it.
Colin Hill
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From: Richard York rich...@lizards.force9.co.uk
To: NSP group nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent
Hello all,
I was wondering if anyone had any experience playing along with a
hardanger fiddle? If so, any general advice, or suggestions on tunes
that work well with the two instruments (from either tradition)?
Thanks,
Colin Everett
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after that.
How interesting to know a little more about them after all these years.
Thank you.
Colin Hill
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From: Philip Gruar phi...@gruar.clara.net
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 4:15 PM
Subject: [NSP] Joe Huttons pipes?
Others will no doubt
A plague in all your households. Well, not quite (and I seem not to have
received most of the posts for this topic) but the next best thing
http://www.rampantscotland.com/songs/blsongs_dark.htm
Anyone brave enough to listen to the mp3.
Actually, I quite like it.
Colin Hill
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for one drone sound so I suppose that accounts for it. Usr the ones
that sound best.
(Joins Helen under the parapet) :)
Colin Hill
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From: Helen Capes helen.ca...@paradise.net.nz
To: cal...@aol.com; nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 6:47 AM
Subject: [NSP
- lift it off smartly (half
open holes can make funny noises).
Sorry, that's all I can think of from my own experience. I'm sure lots of
good suggestions will follow.
Colin Hill.
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From: neihutch...@yahoo.com
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 12:03
the post
a couple of times as well without problems (chanters and drones wrapped in
bits of silk shirt - bought for 50p in a charity shop and contained in
stout cardboard tubes).
I have no idea if he made it himself or if he bought it somewhere.
It'll outlast me :-)
Colin Hill
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suggest they are problematic only after having them fettled, maybe
someone here could suggest a fix?
Colin Hill
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From: pipe...@tiscali.co.uk
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 7:50 PM
Subject: [NSP] NSP Bellows
Hi All,
Not a discussion
from above means stop and
hide :)
Colin Hill
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From: Anita Evans an...@evansweb.co.uk
To: Dartmouth nsp list N.P.S. site nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 2:20 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: the Guardian today
Malcolm Craven wrote:
Hi,
What is B
of music and
thought those on this list may wish to sign. Several other music lists I am
on have done so already so sorry if this is a repeat.
If anyone would like to sign the petition, it's at:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/VandAchange/
Colin Hill
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though before parting with large sums
of cash for what you can get free on the Internet (and, let's face it, the
Wikpedia is always 100% accurate isn't it?) - (that was meant to be
sarcastic, by the way).
Good for you to point it out Matt, thanks (puts cheque book away).
Colin Hill
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lies in how often the set is played/maintained as suggested
by others rather than a simple which oil is best.
Colin Hill
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I'm sure we'll get a plethora of other suggestions ;)
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Richard York rich...@lizards.force9.co.uk
To: Francis Wood oatenp...@googlemail.com
to change it. Sodden bungs mess up the tuning (he says knowingly
after ages of despair before some kind soul on this list put me right about
wet bungs).
Colin Hill
Colin Hill
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From: Tom Childs tomspip...@hotmail.com
To: Dartmouth NPS nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent
I'd go with that.
Problem with Northumbrian is that it may appear that it refers to where
the artist comes from (as in Colin Hill, Liverpudlian small-pipes player).
;-)
Northumbrian piper may suggest a piper from Northumberland who plays
bagpipes (any).
Northumberland small-pipes player
knowing what the adjective describes, isn't it and that Northumbrian
small-pipes is the name of the instrument?
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Richard York rich...@lizards.force9.co.uk
To: colin cwh...@santa-fe.freeserve.co.uk; NSP group
nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, January 05
Must be the cold weather. It plays havoc with corns.
Haven't seen as much since I watched (by accident) Oklahoma.
Colin Hill
PS Thanks for the big grin in brought to my face :)
- Original Message -
From: Francis Wood oatenp...@googlemail.com
To: Dartmouth NPS nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent
it. Two players, same notes,
different performance.
On the subject of classical players, I do feel one should take into account
that, when playing in an orchestra, doing one's own thing may not be a good
idea :-)
A time and a place for everything.
Colin Hill
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From
or German whilst on holiday.
Colin Hill
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From: Mike and Enid Walton mikeande...@worcesterfolk.org.uk
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu; colin cwh...@santa-fe.freeserve.co.uk
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: [NSP] Re: From notation to music
A friend
(and probably illegal now) frequency.
Are the channel 69 mics transmitted from a central source?
As you gather, I'm not that clued up about these things.
Colin Hill
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From: Richard York rich...@lizards.force9.co.uk
To: NSP group nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday
How nice to have a little humour again.
On a positive note, I shall now be operating my gentle summer breeze
emulator whilst ensuring my selected harmonic pipes are, indeed, in
harmony.
A gentle squeeze of the cuddlesac and away we go.
Colin Hill
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From: amble
.
Barren whores, wrinkled old ladies?Maybe the cigar IS just a cigar after
all. ;-)
Colin Hill
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From: richard.hea...@tiscali.co.uk
To: discuss...@northumbrianpipers.org.uk; nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 12:51 PM
Subject: [NSP] Cut and Dry
of a course on piping would be accepted as news
regardless of who was running it?
Colin Hill
(Life Member of NPS since around 1972/3)
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From: rosspi...@aol.com
To: neiltaver...@btinternet.com
Cc: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 4:53 PM
Subject
- Original Message -
From: rosspi...@aol.com
To: neiltaver...@btinternet.com
Cc: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 4:53 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: Northumbria Pipe Course 11-16 October - Places available
No problem as you are doing it as a group activity and there is
May I please apologise for filling mailboxes by hitting reply all and not
removing the individual names and just sending one copy to the list, sorry.
Colin Hill (told you I was old) :-)
- Original Message -
From: Gibbons, John j.gibb...@imperial.ac.uk
To: 'Dartmouth nsp list N.P.S
the information.
Why all the fuss then?
Colin Hill
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From: Richard Shuttleworth rshuttlewo...@sympatico.ca
To: neiltaver...@btinternet.com; rosspi...@aol.com; colin
cwh...@santa-fe.freeserve.co.uk
Cc: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 9:51 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re
forward to reading the mails as I know what's coming.
Sorry but I'm really getting fed up with reading the snide remarks these
days (plus most is lost on me as I don't know the people concerned).
Bah, Humbug...
Colin Hill
are not :)
Unless it's a concerto, hand copying is probably the best bet or ABC,
convert to midi, transpose and print out.
Plenty of stuff out there to do that.
Colin Hill
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From: Christopher Gregg chrisdgr...@gmail.com
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Friday, July 31
Colin Hill
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From: Dally, John john.da...@hmhpub.com
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 10:20 PM
Subject: [NSP] Happy Hours
Andy May's new CD is full of great music. I've listened to it over and
over again ever since I got my hands
notes rather than the phrasing etc
until I can hear someone else playing the tune and then it falls into place.
Dot illiteracy, I suppose. :(
Colin Hill
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From: Richard Evans rich...@evansweb.co.uk
Cc: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 10:17 AM
Subject
That's the last one I got as well.
The new member's list appears just as quiet as well.
Perhaps we've all run out of tubs to thump :-)
Colin Hill
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From: Dave S david...@pt.lu
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 7:11 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: this list
Quite the opposite. Roll up, roll up. Join the society and get all the fun
of the fair :-)
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Ian Carol Bartlett (home account) i...@ihug.co.nz
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 10:06 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: Alternative/extra NPS
Thank you.
I found that a really good listen. Why can't we have stuff like this on the
radio now?
Shame you didn't get the AA stuff from Pebble Mill as well. :)
Colin Hill
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From: Francis Wood oatenp...@googlemail.com
To: pipers list nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent
can from emails. That's not good and will totally rely on how
vehement or eloquent the writer may be.
Let's have it all out in the open (isn't that what minutes are for???).
Colin Hill
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From: Dave Shaw d...@daveshaw.co.uk
To: annsess...@yahoo.co.uk; nsp
this debate will open up a new communications
channel.
Colin Hill
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From: Julia Say julia@nspipes.co.uk
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu; colin cwh...@santa-fe.freeserve.co.uk
Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: [NSP] Re: NPS President and more.
On 23 May 2009
Thank you for putting into word what I was thinking.
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Anthony Robb anth...@robbpipes.com
To: Dartmouth NPS nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 12:55 PM
Subject: [NSP] Colin Ross
Dear All
What a shame Colin Ross has stood down
, of course, no-no's for Yehudi.
Nobody could possibly claim that these two were not masters of the violin
but both styles and interpretation of the dots were very different as was
their method of playing (vibrato, bowing etc).
This discussion does remind me of it each time it comes around.
Colin
Maybe we are heading backwards to the days of playing and non-playing
members when one had to actually play the pipes before members (or send a
tape if you were too far away or abroad) so they could decide if you could
play or not. :)
Colin Hill
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From: Paul Rhodes
has gone before.
Bad playing is just bad playing. We can all do that - some just faster than
others :-)
Colin Hill
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From: what.me what...@ntlworld.com
To: Dartmouth NPS nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 7:18 PM
Subject: [NSP] nps
I seem
been through the
process of being used to refer to a bad wailing sound soon after the French
Revolution when it fell out of favour and was played (often badly) by
beggars etc.
We don't want that to happen to the pipes, do we?
Colin Hill
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From: Ian Lawther irlawt
to a CD before it's lost forever.
I also like KTs playing when done in the style I'm more used to.
Let's face it, the problem we've been discussing is all down to the fact
that the reporter had probably never heard the pipes played before.
We must get out more! :-)
Colin Hill
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second, surely?
Let's not argue over which end of the egg to open :)
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Anthony Robb anth...@robbpipes.com
To: Dartmouth NPS nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 11:25 AM
Subject: [NSP] Not again!
Hello again
The number of people
and switch to Scottish small pipes for open?
May sound odd to us but the right to do our own thing remains. We don't
have to like it, of course :)
We'll never all agree.
Hopefully the two can co-exist.
Colin Hill
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From: christopher.bi...@ec.europa.eu
To: anth
isn't aware of what should be done and what
shouldn't.
Colin Hill
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From: lisa ridley lisaridley6...@hotmail.com
To: helen.ca...@paradise.net.nz; pipers list nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 10:45 AM
Subject: [NSP] Re: Re:
Apologies, I was under
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charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Description: AVG certification
No virus today - outoing
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 8.5.285 / Virus Database:
and don't.
Now, where are those NZ green mussels...
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Richard Hensold hens...@world.oberlin.edu
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 5:11 AM
Subject: [NSP] stiff fingers and aging
I was apparently doing something
As it says on the box.
Seems my own messages are sometimes being deleted by an over-zelous
Mailwasher so just checking :)
Colin Hill
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).
I'm with Orange and they do, on occasions, get blacklisted for Spam.
Just wondering.
Colin Hill
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actually have the server (demon?) blacklisted as I was getting hundreds of
returns from emails that I hadn't sent - from cwhii@myemail
infod@myemail etc so, if one was bounced, I wouldn't see it as it gets
deleted from the server.
Normally they appear within a few minutes.
Colin Hill
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Got mine this morning.
Making donations tomorrow :)
Thanks, it's great!
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Anthony Robb anth...@robbpipes.com
To: Dartmouth NPS nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:27 PM
Subject: [NSP] Rothbury 1990
Hellos apiece
Here's
the mail program formats it, I'm sure, but I
don't know quite what.
Seems to be something to do with the spacing?
Colin Hill.
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From: tim rolls BT tim.ro...@btconnect.com
To: 'NSP List' nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu; Chris Ormston
ch...@chrisormston.com
Sent: Saturday, March 14
Works perfectly now.
Great tune.
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Chris Ormston ch...@chrisormston.com
To: 'tim rolls BT' tim.ro...@btconnect.com; 'NSP List'
nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 10:04 AM
Subject: [NSP] Re: Keep on Ranting!
Tim,
Try pasting
to it by playing all the
tunes on the piano and making it available as an mp3.
The cries of ah, that's how that bit goes continue to echo.
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Mike and Enid Walton mikeande...@worcesterfolk.org.uk
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Saturday, March 07
is still learning.
Speaking for myself and listening to some very simple, easy tunes (so it was
said) played by members of this list, I would have happily burnt my chanter
and given up years ago.
However, playing the midi version gives some hope that you are, actually,
playing a tune!
Colin Hill
(presently out of print) but just can't seem to make the time so do realise
the work involved.
Just a thought.
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: rosspi...@aol.com
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 6:21 PM
Subject: [NSP] first 30 tunes
The NPS has just published
(and probably take more
time - plastic not being as amiable to work with as wood).
Is this one of the reasons why it never happened - that, even in plastic,
each chanter would have to be tuned by hand?
Just wondering.
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Philip Gruar phi
Thanks for that. It's nice to know that the idea was followed up. Being out
of region (Liverpool) if it's not in the magazine or on the list, I probably
won't know about it :-).
I'll be watching this list with interest for more news.
Colin Hill
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From: pipe
one or are there any indications as to an older date/source etc. 1964
isn't that long ago to some of us.
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Gibbons, John j.gibb...@imperial.ac.uk
To: Alan Corkett a...@bcorkett.freeserve.co.uk; nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:40
gurdy as well - you unscrew the handle if you play it left handed :0 Unless
it's constructed that way, of course with a reverse thread.
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Dave S david...@pt.lu
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 12:32 PM
Subject: [NSP] Images
Reading this reminded me of something. Jimmy Allan was the reason I had Bill
Hedworth make me a 7 key chanter. I couldn't play it on a simple one and I
rather liked the tune.
I'd forgotten about that until this reminded me.
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Barry Say barr
Or, in practical terms, a few bottles of good brandy, a fine woman and a
good cigar.
maybe enough left over for a Bakewell pudding :)
Colin Hill
PS
Thanks for that link. Invaluable to those of us who remember threepenny
bits, silver sixpences and half crowns and, in my case (just) farthings
Just don't get us playing Kumbya. :)
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Jim Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: NSP Mailing List nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 9:00 PM
Subject: [NSP] Amazing Grace
Dear Paul Gretton,
Relax. Chill out. Take a pill. The sky isn't
You swine!
I don't know it either so I'm having Googling frantically for an audio file
now (safer then choyting) to see what I'm missing!
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Paul Gretton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 7:32 PM
Subject
have some hammer
dulcimer tunes copied to a blank CD just in case I pop my clogs - really
nice, fast happy stuff - don't want it to be too miserable - I'm generally a
happy bloke).
Colin Hill
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From: Matt Seattle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: the Red Goblin [EMAIL PROTECTED
I suspect that, had they had a few pipers (male and female) in their sample,
they would have given up and gone home at it would have thrown their results
out :)
Colin Hill
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From: tim rolls BT [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Richard York [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: nsp
Did anyone else notice that Obama is Pro Choyts and McCain favours
slurs?
Apologies,
Colin McNaught
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Oh very good!
I'll download that for reference purposes :)
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Paul Gretton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 3:47 PM
Subject: [NSP] tchuning
This tells you it all you need to know. ;-)
[1]http
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Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Mike Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: NSP Mailing List nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 7:56 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: George Atkinson recordings
After posting I noticed that I could only play the second recording
the height of either industry or shipbuilding there, I think.
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Richard York [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: NSP group nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 3:30 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: tchuning
No, it's a sort of sail, hence Lugger.
Isn't
in Scotland.
Fascinating the study of etymology.
Colin Hill
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From: Ian Lawther [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: colin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: NSP group nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 5:52 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: tchuning
As the Oxford Dictionary defines lug
enthusiastic!
Colin Hill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 10:38 AM
Subject: *** SPAM *** RE: [NSP] Re: the cry of the curlew, the wind in the
reeds...
There were many Folk clubs during the 60's - 80's
days for folk.
Colin Hill
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nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:13 PM
Subject: RE: [NSP] Re: the cry of the curlew, the wind in the reeds...
Ah, I left in 1968 and have not been back
the worst they could say You plonker, couldn't you tell it was wrong
in 9 months - you plantpot or no.
Believe me, the enjoyment you will get when it's in tune will be well worth
the risk!
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Wright Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nsp
we should have a society red nose for such players :)
Can I put my name down now.
Colin Hill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Cc: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 2:29 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: More choyting!
What about
and quite happy here.
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Paul Gretton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 7:29 PM
Subject: [NSP] the cry of the curlew, the wind in the reeds...
Allan wrote:
Why the condescending groan at my desire to play
all the southerners into real human beings.
I avoid the IOM, don't trust people with 3 legs. inveterate choyters, if you
ask me :)
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Paul Gretton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 8:57 PM
Subject: [NSP] It's
in a topical remark).
Maybe we should divide the Island into two with choyters at one end and
non-choyters at the other in a Lilliputian style?
Colin Hill
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From: Ian Lawther [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Sunday, August 24
I have this vivid mental image of a poor piper being met with a slow hand
clap and the cries of choyte choyte choyte after a rendition where
he/she slipped one in in a moment of mental aberration.
Colin Hill
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From: Gibbons, John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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