[NSP] Re: small coals, and the peacock following the hen

2012-08-16 Thread Derek Lofthouse

Again, thanks all for the advice.
I tried all 3 tunes with both Gg and Aa drones, both set ups worked okay. I 
think i prefered the Gg sound though. Basically it is the border pipe set 
up, a tone lower.

I suspect i better be able to play all 3 tunes by october though.


Derek

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From: Julia Say julia@nspipes.co.uk
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 2:32 PM
To: Dartmouth NPS nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [NSP] Re: small coals, and the peacock following the hen


On 15 Aug 2012, Matt Seattle wrote:


   And neither does playing Cuckold or Peacock on NSP against A drones
   sound nasty, but it does miss a lot of the musical effect of these
   tunes, the contrasting minor/major strains


Coincidentally (yes, really) I spent part of this afternoon playing 
Peacock

followed the Hen with Colin R.
We tried both G and A drones, both with and without the dominant d or e 
harmony

running.

We also tried playing the only f# (in the B part) as a natural, to test if 
it was 




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[NSP] nps facebook

2012-08-16 Thread Richard Evans

Barry Say wrote:

More happens on fyecebeuk than anywhere else at the moment. I have been
very disappointed that more NPS committee members have not taken
advantage of the opportunities offered by the NPS forum.


So I created a facebook account and found the nps page but all I see is 
a wikipedia extract. Is there some kind of forum or something? And if 
so, what's wrong with the excellent and underused NPS forums?


Cheers
Richard

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[NSP] Re: nps facebook

2012-08-16 Thread cwhill
If I have the right one (and that's far from certain as I don't 
understand facebook at all) it's

http://www.facebook.com/groups/131491660229952/
at least that's what's on the URL bit at the top of the page.

Colin Hill


On 16/08/2012 19:44, Richard Evans wrote:

Barry Say wrote:

More happens on fyecebeuk than anywhere else at the moment. I have been
very disappointed that more NPS committee members have not taken
advantage of the opportunities offered by the NPS forum.


So I created a facebook account and found the nps page but all I see is
a wikipedia extract. Is there some kind of forum or something? And if
so, what's wrong with the excellent and underused NPS forums?

Cheers
Richard





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