I don't know of any recordings played at proper rapper speed but you
might not want to start there anyway! One thought might be to look for
some rapper videos on youtube and capture the sound to your computer.
Ian
DEREK LOFTHOUSE wrote:
This is a little off topic, but i am looking for a
and dot,cut,cut,dot in 3,4,and 7 while Shaftoe is in C
and even throughout but the only note difference is in final four notes
of the seventh bar where Barren Rocks sticks to the previous patterns
and has AECE while Clough partially inverts what has come before to GBDB.
Ian Lawther
To get
I enjoyed that far more than I expected to!
I'm now listening to other tracks and can see myself working through the
whole jukebox as the day goes on. Over the years I've heard a lot of
people trying to rock up traditional music but this chap is something
else..he's not watering down the
Thank you Frances.you had me whistling the Radetzky March while
cooking breakfast.I'm probably stuck with it for the day!
Ian
Francis Wood wrote:
On 21 Jun 2011, at 14:54, Tim Rolls wrote:
Popapoms would be the Australian version then?
Well, which country is this? :
As I need to make a birthday cake for tomorrow I am likely to be doing
some piping.
Ian
si...@leveau8.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
I assume all this food based music will be played on a crumpet or a cornetto
--Original Message--
From: Gibbons, John
Sender: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu
To:
I know there have been some books published in the past that include
tune arrangements for Northumbrian pipes and other instruments though as
someone who is normally a solo player I haven't taken much
notice..until now.
I need to encourage an 11 year old flautist and 12 year old cellist
barr...@nspipes.co.uk wrote:
We have a strong piping community
We have a viable society
Several years ago I read a review of the first 25 or 30 years (forget
which) of Na Piobairi Uilleann written by Pat McNulty in an Irish music
magazine. His final comment stuck with meThere are more
I suspect John was being humourous.after all if you ask five pipers
for recommendations on makers you will often get six answers and and an
argument (and thats just among the pipe makers!).
I don't know if Mike Nelson is doing much making these days but he is in
Cambridge and therefore
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
Karl's book (
http://scottshighland.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=348 ) is
published by Scott's Highland Supply and they should be able to give you
some information on him. He was still alive in 2007 but probably in his
late 60s.
Ian
Julia Say wrote:
On 19 Jan 2011,
I don't know if there will be a spare set in WV but we can certainly
make sure you get a chance to try a seteven if it is only mine!
Ian
Matthew Boris wrote:
Greetings,
Just joined the list and thought I'd introduce myself. I live in
Northern Virginia currently, previously
Ian Lawther wrote:
I'm using ubuntu linux and I can't get the clips to play at all - though
they do on the Hooky Mat pages. Also the writing on the site overlaps
line on line as can be seen from the screen shot attached.
It didn't attach so I am trying to embed it. I hope this doesn't
My youngest daughter (10) has always been a little bit of a tune sponge
though she has refused to join the school choir (much to the teachers
disappointment) and only recently took up an instrument (flute). Last
night she was whistling something from Holst's The Planets which she
picked up
I calculate the shipping of CDs for my business ( www,bagpipediscs.com -
shameless plug!)as being 6 ounces including packaging. For a disc to the
UK that costs $5.64. However this assumes a disc with liner notes and a
regular jewel case. Using a slim case and padded envelope can bring this
Looks like an uilleann piper to me. The set has the older style chanter
stock that tied straight into the bag but due to chanter length gave a
fairly sharp angle at the end of the neck. You can also see the brass
drone stock cup coming out of the bag and facing downwards towards his
right
I seem to remember hearing that when this tune was introduced into
Northumberland from Quebec the title was mistranslated as The Grand
Chain and this is what it has gone by for many years (no translation was
given in the first edition of The Third Tune Book). Later someone
discovered the
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Robert Edwards wrote:
Where is this video uploaded?
Cheers!
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:01 PM, STEPHEN DOUGLASS [1]us...@comcast.net
wrote:
I am uploading sections of a video of Colin Ross making the tongue
for a metal bodied
This afternoon I was in a Starbucks killing a little time before
collection a child from school and suddenly realized I was hearing The
Redesdale Hornpipe over the sound system under a lot of other arranged
music. Checking the screen on which the shop shows what is playing I saw
it was a Simon
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverley_Martyn
On Apr 20, 2010, at 7:12 PM, Ian Lawther wrote:
This afternoon I was in a Starbucks killing a little time before
collection a child from school and suddenly realized I was hearing
The Redesdale Hornpipe over the sound system under a lot of other
arranged music
Within the US and between the US and UK I always take them in my regular
pipe case though it sounds like some European budget airlines have
stiffer rules.
Like Sheila I always announce that they are bagpipes as I put them
forward to the x-ray. The only time this caused a stir was getting on a
I've always assumed Holey Ha'penny and as such used to pair it with The
Crookit Bawbee. In the late 1970s/early 80s I would dedicated this
pairing to the West Midlands Regional Crime Squad which at the time was
being investigated for being full of bent coppers...
Ian
Matt Seattle
Gibbons, John wrote:
Oddly 'Poll Hapenny', an Irish set dance, seems sometimes to appear as Holy
Ha'penny (I'll check tonight in Breathnach); -
I never thought of this as a personal name but assumed a reference to a
1/2d tax per head...maybe I have an odd way of thinking of
I refer to myself as a Northumbrian piper in such circumstances.
Happy New Year, Ernie (and everyone else)
Ian
Ernie Shultis wrote:
I have a serious question for you, whom I recognize as the panel of
experts.
There is a church near by that on Thursdays during the warmer months
Philip Gruar wrote:
The Palladian Ensemble have recorded the Vivaldi/Chedeville Four
Seasons, on a CD called Les Saisons Amusantes - haven't checked to see
if it's still available - with Jean-Pierre Rasle on musette and Nigel
Eaton, hurdy-gurdy.
I have a couple of copies in stock at
It is not listed on the LP either...Track 1 Side A has High Level,
Biddleston, Carrick and I'll Get Wedded In My Auld Claes.
Ian
Julia Say wrote:
Playing through all the Billy Pigg recordings I have whilst working on the tune
transcriptions, I have just noticed that the listing for track 1
marga...@wyngarth7.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
My guess is that it may have been Jimmy Pallister
There are recordings of him playing three or four tracks on 'Morpeth Rant' -
Sounds like it was him from the Morpeth Rant notes
A retired blacksmith, living in Cambo, Jimmy Pallister started to learn
the
Anthony Robb wrote:
I came into piping via a route involving David Hillery, Colin Caisley
and Tom Clough nothing to do with NPS but I thought such individual
routes were fairly rare. Are you saying most of the nsp list people
would also trace a route where no one from the NPS was is
One of the springs on my chanter has become very weak and is, I fear,
about to break. I have the choice of returning it to the maker for
respringing (a trans Atlantic posting job), getting a maker here in the
US to do it (a couple of options - more if I consider other local folk
woodwind
Good thought Steve - perhaps only the Open could be webcast in the way
only the Grade 1 World Pipe Band contest is.
The phone reference brings up another (looney) idea. Do away with the
overseas class and have entries in real time via Skype as part of the
main classes at the
This Saturday will see Glasgow hosting the World Pipe Band Championships
and for the first time the BBC will be streaming the event world wide.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/music/worlds/2009/
Is it possible for some clever person with a webcam and laptop to work
out a way to broadcast
Happy Hours was Emile Vacher a French accordionist and appears in Matt
Seattle's Yelllow Northumbrian PIpers Pocket Book.
Some years ago I picked up a CD of Vacher and his dance band in a
hypermarket in Calais. It was made from recordings done in the 1920s and
30s and disappointingly does not
A few weeks back I said I would be getting some copies of this in at
bagpipediscs once the US distributor had them. It turned out the
distributor had only ordered 2 copies to serve the US market
Those two had already been bagged by members of this list before I
received them and I now
Anthony Robb wrote:
Many musicians kept books of dots to help them remember tunes.
On reading this my thoughts went straight to an incident when I was a
teenager in a pipe band. The Pipe Major, probably around 60 then, was
teaching a group of us youngsters a tune. One of my fellow teens
Adrian wrote:
What are the Northumberland bagpipes;what are they?
They are something extremely raremust be true - it says so here
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Ian
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I do not usually post commercials on this board and this is intended as
a one off. Since the beginning of the year I have been having monthly
special offers at my online piping CD store and this month these include
some Northumbrian and border items so I though there might be some
interest
Whilst Fenwickdescribes gracenotes he does not say that one should step
outside the closed fingering rule he has already set out in order to
play them. Many Northumbrian pipers grace within the closed
fingeringeven those shakes sound better closed!
Ian
Dave Shaw
with
a private one in thw Dasgupta's flat in Tooting for him and his pupils.
And then they would sit around and discuss how Ravi Shankar had
corrupted the tradition
Ian
Mike and Enid Walton wrote:
Ian Lawther irlawt...@comcast.net said
Enter those who saw the chance to make some
matthieu.bopp wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I am giving an informal presentation and I would like to display during the
NSP musical tune some pictures
of Northumberland to help the spectators to get the 'border spirit :)
Browsing the web has not been very helpful yet.
Perhaps you should
The link to the first of 6 clips is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXHPdeh0cOc
Part way through I realized that the fellow making it is the chap who
used to busk with the musical saw in Canterbury when I did the same with
pipes.
Ian
Debbie Lawther wrote:
Hello, all -
While we're in a
Matt Seattle wrote:
I think you mean Session A9 Ian. Session A7 is me and Bill Telfer, and we rock
My mistake Matt - but then you too are a kid from Kent (and more
precisely I think you and Tim Edey are both native to the Planet Thanet)
Ian
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I have always assumed that it referred to the Northumbrian musician Tich
Richardson who was in The Boys of the Lough with his brother Dave
Richardson (composer of Calliope House). Tich died at a young age - b
think in a car accident.
Ian Lawther
john_da...@hmco.com wrote:
Who or what
Anthony's CD and emails here about it have made me nostalgic for my
visits to Rothbury Festival and perhaps the romanticised view I, as a
southern towny, have of living in rural Northumberland, through songs
like Canny Shepherd Laddies o' the Hills that Hannah Hutton used to
sing. In the midst
There is no one listed as being in Belgium in the 2008 Northumbrian
Pipers Society membership list and it looks like Christopher Birch who
is on this list may be closest to you in Luxemburg.
Ian
King, Richard wrote:
I've just acquired a Northumbrian smallpipe. I have no NSP experience
I think the flood was 1988 - it was the year before I first came up to
Rothbury.
My first marriage ended in May 1988 and it was after this that I began
coming up to Northumberland a couple of times a year but I think the
first of these trips was to the NPS competitions that October -
I am in the process of building a website for the Northumbrian
Smallpipes Society of North America and at present as a holding page I
have a collection of Youtube videos on pipers. Many of you will have
seen some or all of these but the current discussion prompted me to
point to the webpage
Nice one, Chris
...except the only instrument I had to hand was my old Schott school
recorder from the mid 1960s that is not aging gracefully and doesn't
like pinching up to high A. But then this is a Northumbrian pipe tune
not recorder music and its going to sound grand when I get the
Jimmy Allen is on The Cheviot Hills by the Cheviot Ranters which was
released on Topic (12TS222) in 1972 so later than dates already
discussed in the 1960s.
For anybody looking for information on Topics records Rod Stradling's
Musical Traditions website has a very thorough list at
Copyright control(led)? Often abbreviated to Cop. Con
Ian
malcra...@aol.com wrote:
On the vinyl itself it is not directly attributed, other than:
{All other material Trad C/C)
?
Not sure what C/C means
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Among old Cape Breton Scottish pipers there seems to have been no set
side on which to play the pipes and photos show both left and right
shouldered pipers. Some also played with hands reversed such as the late
Alex Currie who had started as a piper who played with the bag under teh
right arm
We mustn't overlook the fact that the the last bar and a half of each
part matches And they call I Buttercup Joe which is claimed to be a
southern English song (but may be a pseudo folk song).
Ian
Barry Say wrote:
I quote from my original posting,
--
The Reel of
julia@nspipes.co.uk wrote:
Like Chris, I am concerned at some of the material now being
preferred by players. There is a difference between playing music on
the Northumbrian smallpipes and Northumbrian piping, and the
latter must not get swamped by the former or the tradition will be
Bizarrely my email marked up Lynn's contribution as possible spam.
Possible Spam also works, but doesn't taste as good as Tomato Soup or
Potato Crisps (and Spam should be marked up as Possible Meat).
Ian
Lynn Patterson wrote:
I prefer potato crisps myself.
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The test for Northumbrian pipers would be how fast you can tap your
index finger and any other finger alternately making sure that finger A
is down before finger B comes up.
Ian
Mike Sharp wrote:
...The test was to see how rapidly they could keep tapping their index
I think Obama's delivery is more staccato than McCain's :-D
Cheryl and Colin McNaught wrote:
Did anyone else notice that Obama is Pro Choyts and McCain favours slurs?
Apologies,
Colin McNaught
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Perhaps the Glasgow Museum (at The National Piping Centre?) specialises
in Scottish pipes and therefore is even more specialist than the wonder
museum in Morpeth, or the Jim Coldren's collection that used to be
housed in the Bagpipe Music Museum in Ellicott City in Maryland (which
had sheet music
As the Oxford Dictionary defines lug as a Projection on an object by
which it may be carried, fixed in place, etc I would have thought the
adaptation to ears (as projections on the head) would be fairly common
throughout the English speaking world.
Ian
colin wrote:
Isn't that the fellow
colin wrote:
huge cavern of a room
Were all music clubs in Liverpool Caverns?
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Hi all,
For several years my father was at sea with a mixed crew of Hebridean Islanders
and other Scots.
Apparently the scots refered to the Islander as 'choochters' (chew- k-ters) not
sure of spelling; this is an aural history.
The name described the babbling nature
Chris Ormston wrote:
PS Sorry to ramble - been in the..
http://chrisormston.com/Documents/Bridge_End.pdf
Sorry your evening was spent in such a manner , Chris. I spent my
Saturday night at a house concert here in Seattle with Paddy Keenan,
with red wine in hand. A month that started with
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As to some of the sidelines that this debate has floated, I am
reminded of a CD review a few years back in the NPS mag, of a certain
group of pipers, in which the reviewer wrote something like:
Group piping is like group sex - probably fun for the participants,
but
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For the soloist, . . . playing a full set of satisfying variations
is the most fun one can have . . .
But for the audience, most frequently, this can seem like the most
boring performance of an endless set of technical exercises.
As an example of the
From first hearing the word choyte I have assumed it to be
onomatopoeic.
It is interesting that an open grace note gets a delicate word like
hin in highland canntaireachd where it something wanted and an ugly
word like choyte from a Northumbrian piper who says it is wrong.
Ian
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and an important link with home.
Thanks to those of you who played those games,
Ian Lawther
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Ian Lawther wrote:
the quirky humour of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again
of course I meantI'm Sorry I haven't a Clueblame grief and
senility.
Ian
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Here in the US I have often pondered the connection between pipemakers
and plumbers while standing at a urinal. The name Kohler is often on
the porcelain and Sloan on the flush valve...I thought Benedict
worked with Dave Quinn...not Ray.
Ian
Chris Ormston wrote:
Dear All,
I recently
A few more..
Jenny Netties
Sewer Plumbers of Galashiels
Whistle O'er The Lavatory
Ian
Chris Ormston wrote:
Dear All,
I recently received a card through the letterbox advertising Northumbria Pipes
Plumbing Services. Unfortunately this stimulated a purile torrent of
John, I'm sure you really remember it was named John Liestman's Six
Inch Number Two
Ian
John Liestman wrote:
If I recall, Mr. Lawther wrote a fine tune that might fit in here, but I forget
the name!
Quoting Ian Lawther [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Here in the US I have often pondered
I heard a story that Paddy Keenan, uileann piper with the Bothy Band
played a wedding once and would not let anyone in on his planned tune
for the brides entrance..the reason being he intended to play The
Hag With The Money.
Ian
Richard York wrote:
Perhaps someone could publish a book
David,
Try Mike Sharp in California
http://www.sharpbagpipes.com/
Ian Lawther
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DAVID KORALYNN BOISVERT wrote:
Greetings,
For some odd reason I've had the most difficult time getting ahold of reeds for
my NSP's. Mr. Burleigh, Mr. Ross, the Evans family have all informed
wintery enough..
Ian
Ian Lawther wrote:
Anyone know when the town football takes/took place in Alnwickwas
that a winter time tradition?
Ian
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The school assembly I am playing in is a holiday celebration which is
the way US schools get to cover Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and Eid
al-Adha without offending anyone. Last year we were going to do the
North Skelton dance but the school ended up closed due to a huge power
cut but it was
Thanks from the west of the US as well. Sunday was our monthly meeting
so news of Peter Dyson and Gail Gibbard's wins was known as we gathered.
Ian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Julia,
Just to let you know, your prompt efforts in getting the competition results
out WERE very much
ABC is a music notation system initially developed by Chris Walshaw. Chris
is a musician (piper in fact...French types) who was not good at
transcribing and developed his own shorthand for jotting down the note names
of tunes. However he is a computer whizz and moved the idea along to develop
Carline and Don Watts are learners in Boise...not certain if they are on
this list or not. Depending on how you define near there are Sandy Jones
and Laurie Franklin in Montana, Gail Gibbard and others in Oregon and a
whole bunch of us in Washington.
Ian
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I am looking for a contact email for Graham Dixon / Wallace Music. Anyone
have it?
Ian
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This one which is for all regions (
http://www.bagpipediscs.travelingpiper.com/product_info.php?cPath=24products_id=126
)
includes some NSP but I don't know how much. I don't know of any others
currently available.
Ian
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From: Robert Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: NSP
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From: Simon James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Especially if you're listening on your Northumbrian mp3 player...
The aye pod...
Surely the ayepod is for Scottish music. the whyayepod is for
Northumbrian!
Ian
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Just to take this discussion outside our immediate sphere I htough I would
share a sound clip with you. In amongst the dozens of emails from the NSP
list this morning I got one from a Colarado based group that mixes bagpipes
with rocking blues. I went to their site to have a listen and think
Darn!!! When I read the newsletter I thought I had two weekends of work I
had overlooked. Shame I just spent all the pay before seeing Peter's
clarification...
Ian
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To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Cc: Paul Hickey [EMAIL PROTECTED];
remarkable lengthy series of varied tinkling trills, warbles.
Calls include oft given chit chit, rapid staccaot series of chirps.
Picture at http://www.umd.umich.edu/dept/rouge_river/wiwr1.jpg
Ian Lawther
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