[NSP] Re: kipper box

2010-02-10 Thread Christopher.Birch
Would someone care to admit to a close enough acquaintance with a female baroque violinist to safely enquire about her knicker elastic? I'm working on it ;-) c To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[NSP] Re: kipper box

2010-02-10 Thread Barry Say
Hi Chris, Is this anything to do with your vested interests (or lack of them). (See other thread) Barry christopher.bi...@ec.europa.eu wrote: Would someone care to admit to a close enough acquaintance with a female baroque violinist to safely enquire about her knicker elastic? I'm

[NSP] Re: kipper box

2010-02-10 Thread Dru Brooke-Taylor
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

[NSP] Re: kipper box

2010-02-10 Thread Margaret Watchorn
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'm sure the staff at the Irish Traditional Music Archive would be able to help with this query, Dru. My

[NSP] Re: kipper box

2010-02-10 Thread Francis Wood
On 10 Feb 2010, at 13:26, Dru Brooke-Taylor wrote: 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. Hello Dru and others, This does sound extremely likely. People have

[NSP] Re: kipper box

2010-02-10 Thread tim rolls BT
, February 10, 2010 2:16 PM Subject: [NSP] Re: kipper box On 10 Feb 2010, at 13:26, Dru Brooke-Taylor wrote: 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. Hello Dru

[NSP] Re: kipper box

2010-02-09 Thread tim rolls BT
Message - From: Julia Say julia@nspipes.co.uk To: tim rolls BT tim.ro...@btconnect.com; Francis Wood oatenp...@googlemail.com Cc: marga...@watchorn7.plus.com; NSP group nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 1:26 PM Subject: Re: [NSP] Re: kipper box On 9 Feb 2010, Francis

[NSP] Re: kipper box

2010-02-09 Thread Francis Wood
On 9 Feb 2010, at 12:24, tim rolls BT wrote: The kipper box is a new one on me, and I think must be very local to = Craster. I've never seen one at a session, even at Low Newton just up = the coast, but maybe I go to the wrong sort of gig. It brings forth a = vision of some sort of coastal