The Late Duke of Windsor was quite proud of the fact that he could play
the Highland Pipes. Although since Victoria and Albert fell in love
with the Highlands and bought Balmoral, there had always been a piper
who woke them up every morning, in their day it was definitely an NCO
job. When the P
And is this an opportunity to do a kindness to the victims of political
violence, by allowing your bank account to assist the widow of a former
general to access funds in exchange for a token share of the proceeds?
Not our pipes, but has anyone else seen this morning's Scotsman?
http://www.s
Perhaps it's a question of increased convenience.
__
Von: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu im Auftrag von Dave Shaw
Gesendet: Fr 29.07.2011 11:36
An: Dartmouth NPS; Anthony Robb
Betreff: [NSP] Re: TOTM/shameless plug
Has it occurred to anyone that once a tradition has started to get self
conscious about it's identity, it's got problems? A tradition that is
still fully living as a tradition, is just 'how things are', without
needing to ask itself what is traditional and what isn't. It even
decides what it do
I've a recollection that adding all the keys to woodwind instruments
wasn't just about being able to add extra notes, but because some notes
can fit better with a fully chromatic scale if the holes are all
different sizes, including some that are too big for fingers to cover.
There's an article
On 7 Feb 2011, at 11:21, Gibbons, John wrote:
A compromise might be a pair of e's, one a true 6th above G, for
playing in G;
another - a perfect fourth above the B, and keyed, for playing in E
minor.
The low E might be harder to arrange practically, but may not be as
critical acoustically??
How about
"The Gold Plated pipes"
or
"Snotomer's Maggot".
Does anyone feel inspired to write them?
Dru
On 15 Jan 2011, at 00:07, Francis Wood wrote:
A Strathspey, surely?
Francis
On 14 Jan 2011, at 23:57, gibbonssoi...@aol.com wrote:
Is 'The rotting of the cotton threads' the title of
If you can follow this link, you'll hear them singing the sol fa for a
hymn called New Jerusalem first, and then the hymn itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwUdlSHktmk
There's still though the question 'why?'. I'd have thought if a person
has the ability to learn the sol fa and the shapes
It's possible the tune might exist somewhere under a different name.
Although what's probably the most usual tune to this hymn (Diadem) has
a lot of repeats, the core is Common Metre. So whatever Green Street
is, it may appear somewhere else as the tune to a different hymn with a
different tune
Those that have met me will know that I am a very mediocre player
indeed and will probably remain one. But I've thought quite a lot about
this.
My set has 11 keys. I use the Fâ®s quite a lot. Although the top one is
difficult to play cleanly, I like the dark sound when you slip it into
a tune
I've been away and only just seen this exchange. I'm also completely
ignorant of this area. However.
I've a sort of memory of having seen somewhere pictures of two
different sorts of hurdygurdy next to each other or in the same
article. One looked like the familiar (French?) version, with a bo
It struck me the other day, and I was wondering if anyone knows the
answer.
Where does Winster Gallop come from and how did it get into the piping
repertoire?
There's a Winster I know well but it isn't anywhere near
Northumberland. It is near Matlock in Derbyshire. It is famous, among
other
I've a clear mental image of seeing somewhere, a photograph of an old
street musician playing what looked very like a strung kipper box. He
was holding it like a fiddle.
I saw the photograph at least 25 years ago, and I'm fairly sure it
dated from the 1950s at the latest. I think the musician
I find it interesting that the name of the English language in Irish, on the
other hand, sounds similar to the noise you make when you have something
nasty in your mouth -- "Béarla".
Jonathan
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O
As the person whose taste was being attacked, I don't particularly
mind. After all, I think, and have thought for over 40 years, that
Dylan has been vastly over rated. If you're going to moan through your
nose, why do it on vinyl where everyone can hear you. But I'm not going
to go on and on ab
Is this a version of tune on page 44 of book 2? If so, it's a great
tune, and as far as I know, the title is pronounced Slievenamon, as
Adrian says. It's a mountain. There's a lot of variation in the way it
is sung, from an air, to a belter. But I think it may have got into the
repertoire eithe
How about
'multiple piper'?
On 5 Jan 2010, at 02:26, 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
has a concert series.
They have had various musicians: ce
Is the tune on these links it?
http://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feierwon
or
http://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:De_Feierwon.png
It's completely unfamiliar to me.
Dru
On 25 Nov 2009, at 14:28, neil smith wrote:
Does either of you (or indeed anyone else) have the dots to De
Feierwon? I k
I was at a family party last weekend, where I played. As soon as he saw
my pipes, cousin of mine said he'd seen and heard pipes before.
Somewhere around 1949, his father was working away from home on the
construction of a dam and he went up to stay there. He told me that he
stayed at Cambo wit
I'd endorse this too.
On 2 Oct 2009, at 10:36, Francis Wood wrote:
Excellent to have this latest collection of tunes assembled in the new
NPS Third Collection Folio!
Thanks to Julia, Colin and all others concerned.
Francis
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We might be being unfair to Mr Dunk. It's possible he couldn't read and
write music properly, tried to set down the notes but didn't know how
to annotate rhythm and knew what he thought his tune ought to sound
like when he played it.
His whistling and humming party trick sounds like an attempt
Are but is the issue that it's the other players who will be playing in
F?
On 2 Aug 2009, at 18:25, Matt Seattle wrote:
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Christopher
Gregg <[1]chrisdgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
I am looking for a way to transpose some duet parts from "G"
down
Does anyone know of or have the black dots in pdf, abc or whatever for
or know anything about a French tune played by Jean Blanchard called
Chateau de Beaufort?
On the other great debate, by the way, for what it's worth, I agree
with Hilary.
Dru Brooke-Taylor
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And be tattooed by an approved tattooist who holds the correct
understanding of the Westminster Confession?
Dru
On 25 Apr 2009, at 02:28, Mike and Enid Walton wrote:
what...@ntlworld.com said
> after talking to Tommy Breckons shorltly before his death and
chatting
> to fellow pipers af
Nothing to do with piping, but the locals pronounce Bath as Baath. It's
a quite different sound from what it is in RP!
Dru
On 19 Apr 2009, at 09:37, Richard York wrote:
To reveal myself as a Softie Southerner who probably pronounces Bath
as Barth and thinks there are only wolves & polar be
I have to admit, as a not all that good player that I like the slow
piping session on Saturday afternoon and would be sad to see it
replaced by a more general one. It's also nice to have a fresh air
break after lunch on Saturday.
Some years there has been a more arranged sort of play around
If this link will work from where you are, apart from the thrill of
what the extract is actually about, there's the extra thrill of another
brief appearance shortly before the end. It's very brief, but is there
anyone who was there or who can say who those present are?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/e
There's a further topic for discussion. What does anyone claim "Trad
C/C" means? I suspect there are people on this list who will disagree
with me, but I think the statement 'Trad C/C' is usually a nonsense
statement. It's either one or the other. It can't be both. Copyright
has to belong to so
/calcoluh.htm for a cost of
living calculator -
This says £5 in 1880 money is about £155 in today's debased
currency
John
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From: Dru Brooke-Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 04 December 2008 15:26
To: nsp
Subject: [NSP] English culinary traditions - a
As someone with a long connection with Bakewell, I can confirm this.
The real thing is a pudding. Anything called a Bakewell tart, or
including the word 'cherry', however tasty and well crafted it may be
in its own right, can be guaranteed as a 100% copper bottomed fake. The
real thing is also
And as for those found to be concealing plastic drone reeds
. . If both lugs are already nailed to the Tron,
what happens to them?
On 30 Aug 2008, at 11:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 30 Aug 2008, Bill Telfer wrote:
that come here to breed hurdums or durdums, huliments
If you go to http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/FLOW_FLYN.htm it includes
in Flowers of the Forest 2, a reel version!
On wedding tunes, I've encountered Lara's Theme from Dr Zhivago, a
story largely about adultery, fortunately not prophetic, and where one
of the hymns was Fight the Good Fight, wh
Could I add an extra suggestion.
Some of the newer versions of Books 1, 2 and 3 have extra tunes in them
that those of us with older versions do not have. If the tunes in them
are also being revised, this means that people with different versions
of the books will have different versions of th
This has been a gripping exchange, one of the most interesting ones in
recent months, and the sort of thing, to me, nsp dartmouth is for.
But for some mysterious reason, I've received a series of emails all
evening in the wrong chronological order, with the first one arriving
after most of the
ine of the chorus is "This
day a
stag must die" which is then repeated.(I have been singing it for over
30
years anyway).
Colin Hill
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From: "Ged Foxe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "nsp" ; "Dru Brooke-Taylor"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Old Towler was indeed a fox hound. Hence the wintry connection.
Dru
On 7 Dec 2007, at 17:31, Marianne Hall wrote:
I always though Old Towler was a fox hound. We learn something new
every day>Marianne.
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If you've got the Green Piper's Pocket Book, there's Old Towler, which
is wholly secular but also sort of half belongs to the South Yorkshire
carolling tradition. The words definitely belong to the cold half of
the year.
Dru Brooke-Taylor
On 5 Dec 2007, at 22:47, Ian Lawth
he provenance.
> The chanter presently with the set is without keys, nicely made and a
> fairly generic ivory simple chanter but probably not the original one.
>
> Francis
> On 14 Jul 2007, at 10:34, Dru Brooke-Taylor wrote:
>
>> This is probably a question that reveals me
This is probably a question that reveals me as an ignoramus.
In Jenny Uglow's book 'Nature's Engraver' about Thomas Bewick - really
good read by the way - she says:-
"Robert [i.e. Robert Bewick, son of Thomas Bewick] died in July 1849,
aged 61. At the end of her life, Isabella [daughter of Tho
r own tune book.
Dru Brooke-Taylor
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How about using the end of your chanter? Now there's a party trick.
Dru
On 18 Dec 2006, at 22:20, Chris Ormston wrote:
> I've not yet worked out how to pick my nose and maintain closed
> fingering!
>
> -Original Message-
> From: andy may [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 18 December 20
Congratulations.
This is such great news that I'm sending my reply message to nsp as
well as tomcatmusic.
Dru (Brooke-Taylor)
On 4 Nov 2006, at 12:08, Pauline Cato wrote:
> We are delighted to announce the birth of our daughter Katie Nicola
> Charlesworth on 30th October (weighi
Reached Bristol 9.15 am Friday. Great photo on the cover by the way.
Dru Brooke-Taylor
On 29 Jun 2006, at 18:12, Julia Say wrote:
> This was posted to members today, except for a small number of UK
> members whose surnames begin with J, L or M. (technical hitch due to
> my arithmetic
North America has at least nine different species of wren (it sez in this
'ere book wot I've got), but what is known there as the Winter Wren is
indeed the same as the European Wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.
Jonathan Taylor
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fes, barns, hay-ftacks, and holes
inthe walls; it continues its fong until late in the evening, and not
unfrequently during a fall of fnow."
Dru Brooke-Taylor
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Now that's interesting. Thank you for all the feedback. I'd no idea it
was so recent. The words I'd got were the Stewart Ross ones, but
unattributed. So I'd assumed it was A. Non-Trad.
Dru
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ognises?
X:2
T:Athlone
C:T O'Carolan 1670-1738
B:From Methodist Hymn Book, 1933, Supplement
M:3/2
L:1/2
Q:80
K:Em %Transposed from CM
[|e|(e B) (g/3 f/4)|(e B) (c/2 A/2)|G2 F|E4
(e/3 f/4)|g2 a|f2 g|(e d) c|B2 ||
(e/3 f/4)|g2 a|f2 g|(e d/2) c/2 (B/2 A/2)|(G A)H
B|(e B)(g/3 f/4)|(e B) (c/3 A/4)|G2 F|E4|
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