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>Subject: [NSP] Re: Mr. Bewick, Rats and Inverted Bags
>
>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)
>
>S
Been there ,done that.
Colin R
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From: Richard York
To: Dartmouth nsp list N.P.S. site
Sent: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 9:35
Subject: [NSP] Re: Mr. Bewick, Rats and Inverted Bags
Wow!
And quite apart from an illustration of an interesting bag position,
(which is where we
Wow!
And quite apart from an illustration of an interesting bag position,
(which is where we came in), & even more interesting bellows with angled
attitude, I'm impressed by his using the lower 4th finger as the
accompaniment on the harmony half of the double chanter while the rest
of the same
This video also shows the universal aspect of piping: No matter what
type of pipes, the faster the music, the more we flail away at the
bellows!
Alec
In a message dated 1/28/2010 1:59:51 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
an...@evansweb.co.uk writes:
Julia Say wrote:
>
Being Bliven, not Bovine, I can watch this with a certain amount of
dispassion. I can almost hear Stravinsky's "Rites of Spring" in the
crescendo at the end
Best wishes.
Steve
On 1/28/10 5:27 PM, "Anita Evans" wrote:
> Steve Bliven wrote:
>> This made the rounds awhile back but also show
Steve Bliven wrote:
This made the rounds awhile back but also shows the origins
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKdGO8OeaZI
yes! thanks Steve, I had a dim memory of watching this but couldn't find
it. I am both fascinated and appalled, but there's no escaping the truth...
--
Anita Evans
To get
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" wrote:
> I picked this at random on youtube, but it illustra
This is similar to a technique I tried once, where I painted part of
my body with latex. I was then able to peel the latex off, seal up
the seams, et, viola, an air tight latex bag with a built in neck
ready to receive the chanter stock. The neck was perfectly suited for
producing the greatest ha
Julia Say wrote:
Why have I suddenly (and inexplicably?) become even more grateful to Jackie
Boyce..
and to those fates that decreed I was going to play a different type!!
indeed - at least with the 'standard' bag you can pretend it was never
an animal...
I picked this at random on yo
On 28 Jan 2010, Anita Evans wrote:
> I have a feeling you somehow inflate the carcass
> (while still warm) to separate the skin from the innards and then pull
> it all out, possibly through the rear end?
Aren't those E. European pipes which I tend to associate with Dirk Campbell
generally ti
Richard York wrote:
[With apologies - sent this to the NPS list by mistake first] Which
brings me to a question which has long puzzled me: when you have a
pipes bag using an entire goat/sheep/dog/wo'evva, with no seams, just
the holes at the ends of arms and legs and things, how do you get
the a
[With apologies - sent this to the NPS list by mistake first]
Which brings me to a question which has long puzzled me: when you have
a pipes bag using an entire goat/sheep/dog/wo'evva, with no seams, just
the holes at the ends of arms and legs and things, how do you get the
animal ou
On 28 Jan 2010, Francis Wood wrote:
> Enthusiasts of the zaqq (Maltese bagpipes) should take note:
>
> > The bag was traditionally made of (preferably) dogskin,
The Fenwick tutor (1896) for nsp, page 10, 1st paragraph "an airtight bag made
of
sheep, calf or dog skin"
It is a fate used as a
On 1/28/10 1:30 PM, "Francis Wood" wrote:
> Enthusiasts of the zaqq (Maltese bagpipes) should take note:
>
>> The bag was traditionally made of (preferably) dogskin, but goat- and
>> calfskin were also used; there are ethnographic reports that skins of large
>> tomcats also served.
I'd like to
On 28 Jan 2010, at 18:25, Dave S wrote:
> the wind blows hard enough
> to turn dogs inside out
Enthusiasts of the zaqq (Maltese bagpipes) should take note:
> The bag was traditionally made of (preferably) dogskin, but goat- and
> calfskin were also used; there are ethnographic reports that ski
Mr Bewick must have just visited Barrow-in -Fairness, where the wind
blows hard enough
to turn dogs inside out, so they look like surgical gloves ( according
to Mr Mike Harding)
Francis Wood wrote:
Mr Bewick, the ingenious wood-engraver, has put on record a fact regarding rats
nearly as mysti
This just gets better and better!
Thanks to all for their contributions.
Cheers
Anthony
--- On Thu, 28/1/10, Francis Wood wrote:
From: Francis Wood
Subject: [NSP] Mr. Bewick, Rats and Inverted Bags
To: "Dartmouth NPS"
Date: Thursday, 28 January, 2010, 16:34
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