Hello John,
Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 4:25:56 PM, you wrote:
> On Joe Hutton's recording, Northumbrian Piper, are two tunes, "Sguirr of Ei=
> gg" and "Couper Angus", with Bill Todd listed as composer. I have not been=
> able to find a reference to these tunes or Bill Todd in either my tune boo=
There's neatsfoot, and there's liquid paraffin, and I know there are
passionate supporters of each.
Colin Dipper, the concertina maker & repairer of very high renown, uses
camellia oil on the metal ends, where the keys pass through
close-fitting holes, and reports that in 6 years of use it d
On Joe Hutton's recording, Northumbrian Piper, are two tunes, "Sguirr of Ei=
gg" and "Couper Angus", with Bill Todd listed as composer. I have not been=
able to find a reference to these tunes or Bill Todd in either my tune boo=
ks or in an internet search. Does anyone know who Bill Todd is (wa
This is the third time I've attempted to send this question. I don't
know if I'm being blocked for some reason. I did choyt once, but I was
young and foolish, and needed the money.
Anyway...
I would like to know where Joe Hutton got two tunes on his
"Northumbrian Piper" rec
On 4/29/09, Anthony Robb wrote:
> Having said that (to paraphrase Cardinal Newman) - "No man would do anything
> if he waited until he could do it so well that someone somewhere would not
> find fault with what he has done."
True, Anthony. I spend a large proportion of my time redoing what I've
d
This excuses the Society - for Bruce and Stokoe may have been the best men they
had left for the job -
But B&S stating distinct tunes (with distinct harmonies) to be versions of one
another, and drastically cutting variation sets just as they get interesting,
suggest a deep failure of understa
--- On Wed, 29/4/09, julia@nspipes.co.uk
wrote:
Dr. Bruce had contact through his lectures but appears to have had a
very patronising attitude to the working man & his abilities. I have
deep suspicions of both his and Stokoe's musical competence, as I'm
sure Matt has.
N
Bill sent me this book when I first got a set of pipes from him in the
early 1970s.
Ian
Dave Shaw wrote:
Hi Julia,
Tunes in '74 edition of Fenwick are as Edition 1 below.
For anyone interested, a PDF of the '31 edition owned by Bill Hedworth
can
be found here;
http://www.jaydax.co.uk/northu
Hi Julia,
Tunes in '74 edition of Fenwick are as Edition 1 below.
For anyone interested, a PDF of the '31 edition owned by Bill Hedworth can
be found here;
http://www.jaydax.co.uk/northumbrianpipes/
Cheers,
Dave
Dave Shaw, Northumbrian and Scottish Smallpipes, Irish Pipes and SHAW
Whistles
www
If the 'Clough exercises' are based on the ones he was taught by Thomas Todd,
presumably as exercises for tunes he'd play subsequently,
and some are found in Felton Lonnen and Jacky Layton,
it strongly suggests these 'Fenwick' versions are Todd's.
Frightening, but very instructive, that these tu
On 29 Apr 2009, Matt Seattle wrote:
> is it not the case that the Fenwick tutor
> (which I can't check because I don't have it) has respectably
> traditional sets of the Holy Halfpenny and Felton Lonnen variations?
Edition 1 has Coquetside as in N. Minstrelsy, Holey Ha'penny (as in
NPS1 - copi
> It is now believed that the worthy gentlemen who formed the majority
> of the NSPS had little contact with the traditional players - an
> analogy with the cricketing world of the time, and possibly other
> areas of endeavour.
> The N. Minstrelsy is another well intentioned effort which needs
Hello Ina
I hadn't realised you were related to Kenny Wilson. He was one of the
fiddlers (along with Will Taylor and others) who founded the Border
Strathspey and Reel Society at Langholm in 1973. His interpretation of
"Bonny Lass O' Bon Accord" was legendary and when I heard it f
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