For a brief summary of the story;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dixon_manuscript
Best wishes.
Steve
On 6/29/11 2:00 PM, Francis Wood oatenp...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 29 Jun 2011, at 18:06, Julia Say wrote:
I see the copy digitised was donated to NLS by Dorothea Ruggles-Brise -
Posted on the Chiff Fipple Used Instruments Board by flutemaker Casey
Burns;
[1]http://forums.chiffandfipple.com/viewtopic.php?f=35t=82144
Am selling my old copy of The Northumbrian Bagpipes by Cocks and
Bryan, published by the Northumbrian Pipers Society in 1975
There are a few
Matthew -
Check the following on Chiff Fipple whistle forum
[1]http://forums.chiffandfipple.com/viewtopic.php?f=1t=70731hilit=no
rthumbrian
It's from Jerry Freeman, whistle tweaker and maker, talking about how
he set up some whistles to fit with Chris Ormston and Andy May's
Pardon my butting in here, but the program Bill was advocating is
Transcribe! Trial version available at
www.seventhstring.com/xscribe/overview.html
Looks to be a very useful program as it allows not only slowing down the
sounds, but also a graphical analysis of the notes (particularly useful
And apparently agony
Best wishes.
Steve
On 2/8/10 3:30 PM, gibbonssoi...@aol.com gibbonssoi...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 07/02/2010 13:39:07 GMT Standard Time,
i...@gretton-willems.com writes:
But did you know that a recent survey showed that 96.83%
of people
This made the rounds awhile back but also shows the origins
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKdGO8OeaZI
Best wishes to all (except those partially covered with latex - those
deserve what they get)
Steve
On 1/28/10 4:58 PM, Anita Evans an...@evansweb.co.uk wrote:
I picked this at random on
OK Tom Childs, happy you asked?
Best wishes.
Steve
On 1/13/10 7:07 AM, Jim Grant j...@millgreens.f2s.com wrote:
- it's the smell of the stuff, isn't it? Snotomer is an anagram of Rot
m' nose, a Georgian oath.Jim
tim rolls BT wrote:
I'd guess it's been around since Tudor times,
On 11/1/09 9:17 AM, Julia Say julia@nspipes.co.uk wrote:
Anyone wanting a simple abc conversion program might like to consider
abcexplorer -
can't remember the URL, but Google would find it. It's free and does a
reasonable
job. It's player has drone settings although they're a trifle
In any case, the course has now received considerably more advertising than
it might otherwise have Clever marketing strategy on someone's part.
g
Best wishes.
Steve
On 8/12/09 8:42 AM, Francis Wood oatenp...@googlemail.com wrote:
[SNIP]
I have no connection with the event this year,
Greetings -
Got a call today from the Museum of Fine Art in Boston where they are
teaching a course on the use of traditional instruments in pop music.
They were specifically looking for examples where bagpipes were used in
widely recognized pop songs. I could recall some instances
On 8/25/08 9:03 AM, Matt Seattle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Following from this and Ian Lawther's remarks on Chris Ormston at
Killington, I would venture the heretical and dangerously unpopular
view that an 'average' musically literate audience is more educated and
open-minded than an
on 11/1/07 12:26 PM, Gibbons, John at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You could have separate chanters for each note, avoiding messy multiple
key clusters, also enabling playing of chords. You could optimise the
reed for each note. Fit them all in a box fed by a compressor and you
might be getting
on 11/1/07 2:26 PM, Philip Gruar at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There was a 19th century Russian aristocrat, can't remember who just
off-hand (he may even have been 18th century) who had an orchestra of his
serfs, all blowing just one note each on long trumpets (or may have been
hunting horns).
Apologies for cross-posting:
I am posting the following for a friend; I have not played or even seen
these pipes. Send me a note off list for contact info.
Best wishes.
Steve
German Schaferpfeife for sale. For pictures, see
on 11/2/06 3:03 PM, Colin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This debate reminds me all too much of something that happened back in the
60's in the folk scene when a fellow called Bob Dylan did the second half
of his show with an electric guitar and half the audience walked out (I was
there).
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