[NSP] Re: Not Choyting - advice please

2008-08-28 Thread Christopher.Birch
Used occasionally it's not too intrusive. I think the hard line taken by Clough, Adrian and I is really an attempt to reign in some of the worst excesses of open technique. Nicely put, though I enjoy a good choyte now and then. This is probably heresy to some, but I think it's arguable that

[NSP] Re: Not Choyting - advice please

2008-08-28 Thread Christopher.Birch
I'd go along with all of this. Thanks, Richard, for putting it so eloquently. c -Original Message- From: Richard York [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 11:57 AM To: NSP Mailing List Subject: [NSP] Re: Not Choyting - advice please Oh dear - that wasn't what I

[NSP] re- Not Choyting, Advice please

2008-08-28 Thread Richard York
P.S. and my main request was for technique advice. I'm grateful for the information already coming in - thanks! The bit about Kosher-or-not was really the lesser part of my message. Richard. To get on or off this list see list information at

[NSP] Re: Not Choyting - advice please

2008-08-28 Thread Ian Carol Bartlett (home account)
Hi all Chris B wrote:- Subject: [NSP] Re: Not Choyting - advice please This is probably heresy to some, but I think it's arguable that Clough's was only one possible way of playing and the one most approved of at the time. there may be more. There is a difference between bad and different

[NSP] Re: Not Choyting - advice please

2008-08-28 Thread Richard York
10:57 AM Subject: [NSP] Re: Not Choyting - advice please Oh dear - that wasn't what I meant at all! Just an honest appeal for information which seems to be common knowledge to many, but obscure to me, and I gather, others too. Because I don't know who is truly Outside The Pale I might get

[NSP] Re: Not Choyting - advice please

2008-08-28 Thread Christopher.Birch
Of course, the traditional style needs to be mastered first to acquire the skill to take it further otherwise it tends to be bad playing. Indeed. (am I the only person in the world that likes buttered peas and hates holey halfpenny?). :) For listening or playing? And of course you have

[NSP] Re: Not Choyting - advice please

2008-08-28 Thread Honor Hill
And me...! Honor Hill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 4:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [NSP] Re: Not Choyting - advice please One frustration in the choyte debate was the we-all-know