[NSP] Re: Amazing Musical Machines

2009-04-20 Thread Ian Lawther
The link to the first of 6 clips is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXHPdeh0cOc Part way through I realized that the fellow making it is the chap who used to busk with the musical saw in Canterbury when I did the same with pipes. Ian Debbie Lawther wrote: Hello, all - While we're in a

[NSP] Re: None piping query

2009-04-20 Thread John Liestman
It was a lovely card from Rupert Boulting, thanking us for working on the First 30 Book. Oh, and a 500 pound note as additional thanks - too bad yours was empty ;-) Quoting Richard Shuttleworth : >An envelope has just arrived in the mail bearing an Oxford postmark and >dated April 15,

[NSP] Amazing Musical Machines

2009-04-20 Thread Debbie Lawther
Hello, all - While we're in a not-NSP mode, let me recommend to you the wonderful work of Henry Dagg. He's currently building a Pin Barrel Harp, and if you search YouTube using either his name or Pin Barrel Harp, you'll be able to see and hear it! Debbie Lawther -- To get on

[NSP] Re: None piping query

2009-04-20 Thread Richard Shuttleworth
Many thanks to Ian and Paul for clearing up this little mystery. Cheers, Richard ps And thank you Rick for your offer of spam to assuage my desperate need for contact with fellow pipers :-)) - Original Message - From: [1]Paul Rhodes To: [2]irlawt...@comcast

[NSP] Re: None piping query

2009-04-20 Thread K. O'Dempsey
Gentlemen, That was so cool that Ian was able to clear up Paul's mystery. Only in the age of the Internet! KO On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Paul Rhodes <[1]oxpi...@hotmail.com> wrote: That sounds like Rupert, who lives in my village and doesn't think the

[NSP] Re: None piping query

2009-04-20 Thread Paul Rhodes
That sounds like Rupert, who lives in my village and doesn't think the same way as the rest of humanity but is one of the very nicest people I know. Paul Rhodes > Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:09:38 -0700 > To: rshuttlewo...@sympatico.ca > CC: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu > From: irla

[NSP] Re: None piping query

2009-04-20 Thread Ian Lawther
I think it should have contained a card sending you thanks from Rupert Boulting for your contribution to the 30 tunes project. I received one this weekend. Ian Richard Shuttleworth wrote: An envelope has just arrived in the mail bearing an Oxford postmark and dated April 15, 2009. It

[NSP] Re: None piping query

2009-04-20 Thread Rick Damon
I've got some unused spam you can have if you're so desperate for mail, Richard! :-) On Apr 20, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Richard Shuttleworth wrote: An envelope has just arrived in the mail bearing an Oxford postmark and dated April 15, 2009. It is addressed in what looks like an older pe

[NSP] None piping query

2009-04-20 Thread Richard Shuttleworth
An envelope has just arrived in the mail bearing an Oxford postmark and dated April 15, 2009. It is addressed in what looks like an older person's handwriting and has no mention of the sender's name or address. Unfortunately, the envelope was empty and I have no idea who the writer

[NSP] Tommy Breckons' funeral

2009-04-20 Thread rosspipes
Tommy was one of the last pipers to have known the Clough's and it was a sense of the end of an era when I heard he had died last Wednesday. For those of you who live locally the funeral service is at St. Cuthbert's in Bellingham at 2pm. Colin R _