I was poking around for some information on some of the individuals
involved in the sustainment of the NSP tradition heading into the 20th
century, and it turns out that the book The life and letters of John
Collingwood Bruce of Newcastle-upon-Tyne is available on GoogleBooks
for
I'm sensing a Judean Peoples' Front vs. Peoples' Front of Judea
schism here...
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 16:28:34 -0400
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
From: mark.stay...@pipersgathering.org
Subject: [NSP] Re: new group
Is this different than the Proper Northumbrian Pipers
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 20:32:50 +0100
To: matthew_p...@hotmail.com
CC: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
From: oatenp...@googlemail.com
Subject: [NSP] Re: new group
On 24 May 2011, at 20:24, Matthew Boris wrote:
I'm sensing a Judean Peoples' Front vs. Peoples' Front of Judea
The awesome image of the engraving, and much of the text, were added by
[1]John Gibbons 3 as noted in the History tab at the top of the page.
That is one of the cool things about Wiki as well; every draft can be
seen and compared. So if anyone wants to shoot him a line on Wiki and
Greetings,
I've been helping drum up support for the blog Alternative Pipers of
North America. If you haven't checked it out, you should; it's a great
collection of articles on pipes (generally non-GHB/UP) from the North
American perspective. Loosely a North American complement
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
The following was posted today on Dunsire Bagpipe Forums, directing
here for a better audience. I'm not involved at all, just spreading
the word:
Link here: http://forums.bobdunsire.com/forums/showthread.php?t=136744
Recently a friend of mine re acquired her deciest
Given that the vagaries of NSP tuning take some explaining, and are
briefly mentioned in the NSP article on Wikipedia, I turned the term
F+ into a wikilink and started a new article for it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%2B_%28pitch%29
If anyone has any _footnoted_ material
At the Potomac piper's gathering a few weeks back, I noticed that few
folks had instrument set up to jam with the NSP players in their F+
sets, except for one pennywhistle player. Is there any standard way to
play in F+ on a tinwhistle? Is it best to get an F whistle (low or
Have been following this thread with interest, but had to ask: is
brass tarnish removal primarily for aesthetics, or does it also effect
operation or long-term stability?
Off the top of my head, I would think that a layer of oxidisation
would protect the metal in the long run;
I noticed that Colin Ross had no article on Wikipedia, despite a good
dozen or more articles mentioning him but with nowhere to link to. So
I did some basic Google research and put together a biography here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Ross_%28pipemaker%29
If anyone has info
I'm not a player myself, but ran across these looking for used SSP:
http://cgi.ebay.com/David-Burleigh-Northumbrian-Smallpipes-9-Key-w-Case
-/130472916314?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0hash=item1e60cab55a
Starting bid is $899, currently 0 bids and almost 7 days left.
I don't _think_ I'm in
Definitely looking forward to meeting a wider variety of pipers; I'm
relatively new to pipes (though have been interested in for 14 years),
and about the only non-GHB/uilleann piper I've known in person was a
Balkan piper up in Seattle, and some gaiteros I met in Spain.
I'll be at
Greetings,
Just joined the list and thought I'd introduce myself. I live in
Northern Virginia currently, previously lived at various points in the
US, Newfoundland, and the Middle East.
I'm not an NSP player myself, but it's a subject of interest to me and
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