"Used to cover musical deficiency? You may so, I couldn't possibly
comment!"
Probably! I tend to use my lugs to hear music, so what the performer wears has
little relevance. Besides, the black and white shepherds' travel rug was worn
on both sides of the border, so like Flett From Flotta, T
On 22 Aug 2008, Ormston, Chris wrote:
> I may have imagined this, but I've a feeling GGA was involved in
> George Atkinson's tuition.
Ah. I thought so, but couldn't place where I'd heard it.
> Thanks for getting me going about piping ensembles too - was it
> intentional???
No, it just sort
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On 22 Aug 2008, Ormston, Chris wrote:
> it's not just a Clough
> thing. Joe Hutton's playing clearly demonstrated detached fingering
> and co
On 22 Aug 2008, Ormston, Chris wrote:
> it's not just a Clough
> thing. Joe Hutton's playing clearly demonstrated detached fingering
> and contained few open gracings, and I'd urge readers to listen to his
> earlier recordings . George Atkinson's name appears again and again on the
> competiti
tion cups, and his contributions on the Wild Hills of
Wannies LP shows why - some of the most clear, musical interpretations of
hornpipes you could wish for!
Chris
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On 22 Aug 2008, Gibbons, John wrote:
> Not executed properly? But isn't it meant to sound like that?
> The cry of the curlew, bleating of sheep etc
I withdraw that comment - possibly it's the piper doing it who should
be executed properly.
Julia
To get on or off this list se
Just this morning I couldn't hear the pit hooter for all those pesky curlews
and sheep!
Chris
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"Adrian gives an
ew, bleating of sheep etc
John
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On 22 Aug 2008, Ormston, Chris wrote:
,
> I've just had an off-list request for an explanation
On 22 Aug 2008, Ormston, Chris wrote:
,
> I've just had an off-list request for an explanation of choyting.
> Clough described it as "To grace a note in the manner of a Highland
> piper" i.e. to play a grace note, then a melody note without silence
> between the two.
and (in reference to the 1
ers of choyting"
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Thanks - I hope my fingering is more accurate than my memory for dates!
Chris
"Tough on choyting, tough on the causers of ch
Thanks - I hope my fingering is more accurate than my memory for dates!
Chris
"Tough on choyting, tough on the causers of choyting"
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On 22 Aug 200
On 22 Aug 2008, Ormston, Chris wrote:
> Bellingham Show?"
> Tom Clough's Bellingham
> adjudication speech from the 1930s still applies!!
October 1923:
"The chief aim of any player is to produce good music. Now this can
only be attained by the proper use of his musical instrument.
There are tw
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"I would like a straight version of Forsters 'Jim Halls Fancy'"
Well you'll not find it on Canal Street!
"p.s. can I choyt at the Bellingham Show?"
You can - but don't
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