I got quite a surprise last time I recorded myself playing -
it was far
too fast for my liking
Related anecdote:
Once while setting up for a gig, music playing in the background included a
very fast and flashy version of Orange Blossom Special (not on the pipes!).
When I asked who was
cwh...@santa-fe.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
From: colin cwh...@santa-fe.freeserve.co.uk
Subject: [NSP] Re: this list is safer now
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Date: Monday, 8 June, 2009, 8:46 PM
That's the last one I got as well.
The new member's list appears just as quiet
Subject: [NSP] Re: this list is safer now
Or just too busy making music? I'm involved in a project with Jimmy
Little at the moment. He was one of the ranting Teddy Boys spied by
Louis Killen at Alnwick in the late 50s and learnt pipes from his
father and grandfather in an isolated
If anyone would like to learn some tunes linked to North Northumberland,
Andy and I are running four workshops and linked concerts over the summer
months in various venues along the Northumberland coast. Learn the tunes in
the workshop and join in playing them in the evening concert if you feel
I am pleased to read about the respect given to Jimmy Little up at
Alnwick. The group of pipers at Morpeth who mostly play from music and
sound as 'flat as the paper the music is printed on' are not interested
in any input from people like myself. They seem to be more concerned
of control'.
I think the watchword, as ever, is COMPROMISE!!!
Di
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From: rosspi...@aol.com
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Cc: anth...@robbpipes.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 11:31 AM
Subject: [NSP] Re: this list is safer now
I am pleased to read about the respect
-Original Message-
From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf
Of Di Jevons
I do think however there is a danger that 'life and bounce' can be
mistaken for 'breakneck speed' and whilst I am firmly of the opinion
that one does not progress if one does
On 6/9/09, Di Jevons d...@picklewood.info wrote:
I do think however there is a danger that 'life and bounce' can be mistaken
for 'breakneck speed'
Well said, Di. Going further, 'life and bounce' are (imho)
incompatible with 'breakneck speed'. Try, for example, to play a jig
with any kind of
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From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of
Matt Seattle
Sent: 09 June 2009 14:14
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [NSP] Re: this list is safer now
On 6/9/09, Di Jevons d...@picklewood.info wrote:
I do think however there is a danger
I find this very reassuring, Matt!
I'm still bashing away at Peacock, and only recently took note of the
metronome settings in the recent edition, some of which are, to me,
stratospherically fast.
I've been wondering if these were based on general practice, either
current or
Hello Richard,
A distinction should be made between playing for dances and playing for
pleasure. Dancers need the music to be quite fast otherwise they feel
clumsy and uncoordinated; to move along and feel light on their feet they
need speed - which the player has to provide. When the piper
of semiquavers
all over the floor. Even if that doesn't happen, the effect can be unmusical.
John
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From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of
Richard York
Sent: 09 June 2009 17:36
To: NSP group
Subject: [NSP] Re: this list is safer
Is it really this dead after the what me mail ? or has a lurgy got settled
Dave S
Wayne Cripps wrote:
I should also add that the NSP mail list can no longer
transmit computer viruses.
Wayne
To get on or off this list see list information at
That's the last one I got as well.
The new member's list appears just as quiet as well.
Perhaps we've all run out of tubs to thump :-)
Colin Hill
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From: Dave S david...@pt.lu
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 7:11 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: this list
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