[NSP] BBC Antiques Roadshow

Next week's issue of 'Radio Times' lists 'Antiques Roadshow' this coming Sunday - the 20th - as coming from Delaval Hall. Julia took some pipes along which generated interest, although there are no guarantees that they will appear. BBC1, 8pm, Sunday 20th - possibly worth a look, Richard

[NSP] NPS Concert reminder

Hi All, Forgive the plug, but this is a reminder that the NPS Annual Concert takes place in St Mary's Heritage Centre in Gateshead on Saturday 8th October at 7:30pm. For those within reach of Gateshead, this will be a super evening of fine piping and traditional music. The artists appearing

[NSP] Re: Harvest tunes

Hi Richard, I think Cut and Dry Dolly is named for the celebration of the last cut of corn/grain/hay, whatever it was. Here's an abc of the tune as given in Bruce and Stokoe's Northumbrian Minstrelsy: X:1 T:Cut and Dry Dolly M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Reel S:Bruce Stokoe - Northumbrian Minstrelsy

[NSP] Info: BBC Prom tonight

Hi, Just information - there is a late night BBC Prom to be broadcast tonight (Tuesday 2nd August 2011) at 22:15 BST, lasting until 23:45. Its theme is music collected and arranged by Percy Grainger and it is performed by June Tabor (singer), the Wilson Family (Shanty singers), the Katrhyn

[NSP] Re: [NPS-Discussion] KVR online

Hi Julia, Thanks for these links - what a super find! The links do work if you just copy the entire link (not just the blue part) and paste it into the URL address box of your browser. Cheers, Richard Original Message From: julia@nspipes.co.uk Date: 29/06/2011 17:24 To:

[NSP] Re: abc visualizer

Hi Dave, Thabks for posting info about this. It looks most useful - a super find. Just for general info it downloaded painlessly and installed rapidly and cleanly - my OS on this conmputer is Vista. Richard Original Message From: david...@pt.lu Date: 28/05/2011 15:30 To:

[NSP] Thomas Saunders

Hello All, There's a super tune called Thomas Saunders, and for a project with Alnwick Pipers I need to know who wrote it - I'm assuming that it was not Mr. Trad. I've found nothing by digging around on the web, and I've also asked a number of individuals I thought might know. It remains a

[NSP] Thomas Sander !

Hello All I'd like to thank all the people who replied to my question. I've gleaned some of the recent history of the tune, and rediscovered a couple of websites I've not visited for a while. Especial thanks to Ian Lawther, though, whose very specific reply has solved my problem - I'm really

[NSP] Sharing Thomas Sander

Thanks to Ian I knew what to look for, and found this YouTube recording of the Tunes of Glory pipe band playing a medley that starts with Thomas Sander: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxwiA7wTKHc I'm afraid I can't write abc, so I can't post a transcription of it. It's a 4/4 march in D.

[NSP] Kathryn Tickell award

Hi All, A quick note. The Newcastle Journal (local morning newspaper) today carries the news that they have honoured Kathryn Tickell in their Journal Culture Awards for 2010. She has been given their Award for Special Contribution to Arts and Culture. She is featured in a large front page

[NSP] Re: Fame

Hi N713PNL and NSP1, Excellent ideas, both! Sorry I've just found this - I've only logged on for the first time today. I've just been reminded that tomorrow is Chantry night - will N731PNL and his co-driver be going? I bet NSP1 is jealous as he's just got London Pipers to look forward to,

[NSP] Re: Is this spam?

Hi Wayne, Hi All, I think that this post is some sort of 'spam' which seems to have been posted to the NSP/Dartmouth list address - and presumably not by a bona fide subscriber to the list. Clicking the link brings up an advertisement and I don't want adverts. I'm not sure if I can block and

[NSP] Re: reporting spam

, richard.hea...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Hi Wayne, I posted this query on the list, but someone then suggested I post it directly to you and that you could deal with it. Sorry to bother you with it Richard Hi Wayne, Hi All, I think that this post is some sort of 'spam' which seems

[NSP] Concert at Alnwick - a PS

When I posted this information yesterday I forgot to include a contact number - sorry! Tickets are available from Alnwick Playhouse, Telephone: 01665 510785 Website at http://www.alnwickplayhouse.co.uk I've also amended the information (below) so that it is accurate in case you want to send

[NSP] Concert at Alnwick

Hello All, but especially those of you within reach of Alnwick, This is to let you know about the traditional music concert on February 5th hosted by Alnwick Pipers' Society at the Alnwick Playhouse. The concert features the Alnwick Pipers' Society Band, Bob Bolam, Peter Athey, Malcolm

[NSP] Re: Changes at recent NPS meeting

Hi All, If Julia's link does not work, then try adding .htm immediately after the word 'news' - it worked for me, Richard Original Message From: julia@nspipes.co.uk Date: 17/01/2010 21:07 To: nSP groupnsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Subj: [NSP] Changes at recent NPS meeting These may be

[NSP] Re: Tyne Electrical Engineers

Hello Jim, Thanks for your response to my question in the Newsletter about the TEE pipers' badge. I'm afraid I don't have any information as to the size or date of the badge - I only know the information the auctioneers' website gave. I've also had some very interesting information from Alan

[NSP] Cut and Dry Dolly

Hello, Heslop’s “Northumberland Words” (1892 and 1893-4), a glossary of words used in Northumberland and on Tyneside, has several references to the word “dolly”. I give these below. Claydolly – the woman worker in a brickfield, who carries the brick from the moulder’s table to the open field

[NSP] Re: [NPS-Discussion] Robert Bewick tune

Hi Matt, Thanks for producing the 'abc' of the tune. That's really helpful. In web searches I've so far found transcriptions in D and in C but both appear to me to go back to Oswald. In regard to what you said about where this search might go, I've not yet found any local variant, not any

[NSP] Re: Robert Bewick tune

:28 To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Cc: richard.hea...@tiscali.co.uk Subj: Robert Bewick tune Richard wrote: In his letter Robert writes, ... I have got some nice new tunes from Jemmy Maffin my father likes the one called What would a Lassie de we an auld Man the best of any of them and I have jingled

[NSP]

Hi Wayne, Can you block this character for spamming, please?: Inman Damien [...@cs.dartmouth.edu] Richard Get 50% off Norton Security 2009 - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/security To get on or off this list see list information at

[NSP] Re: Halsway playaround

Hi Alan, I also thought the Sunday session was a high point, but I would certainly not like to see tuition time reduced. I value highly the tuition time and, although it requires sutained concentration and is cumulatively tiring, it is a time when a combination of enormous expertise is

[NSP] Spelling of names

Hi, With reference to the variable spelling of names, there is a (possibly relevant) example of this in Roxby's Lay of the Redewater Minstrel published in 1809 at Newcastle. In a footnote on p.26 in relation to Elishaw he writes: Here was the rendezvous of the vagrant train of faa's,

[NSP] Confused!

Hi All, Do we mean oral/orally or aural/aurally ... or perhaps both? Richard Fancy a job? - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/jobs/ __ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[NSP] Re: Confused!

.. on second thoughts, and in light of the number of Oirish tunes we seem to play in our Northumbrian repertoire, perhaps it should be O'Reilly, Richard Original Message From: malcra...@aol.com Date: 09/03/2009 22:46 To: richard.hea...@tiscali.co.uk, nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Subj: [NSP

[NSP] Archive programmes about Northumberland and Newcastle

Hi All, Local ITV are celebrating 50 years by showing some of their old programmes each month on their website. There are two interesting programmes up at present. One is about the redevelopment of Scotswood, but perhaps the more interesting to pipers is the programme about the North

[NSP] Archive programmes about Northumberland and Newcastle (2)

Hi All, Regarding the piper at Bellingham, Malcoln Craven has identified him as Tommy Breckons. Thanks Malcolm! Richard Only Tiscali gives you up to 50% off an online download of Norton Security 2009 - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/security ___

[NSP] Piper print

Hi Honor, I'm no expert, but I think quite a lot of bagpipe iconography depicts the bag under the right arm. I have no idea whether or not that is due to the artist (obviously it is in the case of original paintings) or the printmaker reversing things. You'll see another example in David

[NSP] Re: Piper print

Hi Barry, I find it interesting, as well, that in other David Allan pictures (e. g. the famous 'Highland Wedding at Blair Atholl' that is believed to show Neil Gow) the other instrumentalists are depicted playing in the normal way. In that particular picture the bagpiper in the background is

[NSP] Reel of Tullochgorum

Hi All, There's a print in the collection of National Museums Scotland that may be of interest: http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-579-620-C Richard 50% off Norton Security 2009 - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/security To