[NSP] Clough v Reid

2011-05-04 Thread a.d.s
Hello all, Clough played in A maj and C maj. The arrangement of the Clough arrangement of key's was C low at the left side and B at the right side and that would allow player's to play in B and play the Beeswing, Underhand and whatever. I don't know of any player's since Clough that

[NSP] Re: Historical image of John Dunn, John Peacock?

2011-05-04 Thread Matthew Boris
The awesome image of the engraving, and much of the text, were added by "[1]John Gibbons 3" as noted in the History tab at the top of the page. That is one of the cool things about Wiki as well; every draft can be seen and compared. So if anyone wants to shoot him a line on Wiki and

[NSP] Re: Low keys sequence

2011-05-04 Thread Richard Shuttleworth
Hi Philip, Four years ago, Colin very kindly made me a set with a 16 key chanter using his new grouping for the lower keys (down to B). I had previously been playing a 16 key chanter with the more traditional grouping and I must admit that it took me a few hours of practice before I was reall

[NSP] Re: Low keys sequence

2011-05-04 Thread rob . say
Afternoon Philip - I don't know the dates on the chanters you have seen, I'd be interested to know. I discussed the design of my big chanter with Colin back in 2001/2002. the original plan was to get ABC# on a triple block at the back with paired C&D on the right and just the single low E o

[NSP] Re: Low keys sequence

2011-05-04 Thread Mark Stayton
I've owned chanters with the traditional C-B and Colin's A-B-C arrangement, and I prefer the latter for the B and C keys, finding it more intuitive. The Colin Ross chanter also has a C# key next to the D. With both arrangements, the keys in question are played with the right thumb. I

[NSP] Low keys sequence

2011-05-04 Thread Philip Gruar
May I put out a request for opinions from the NSP community? Apologies for raising a subject which has been discussed several times before - though maybe not in precisely the same terms, and I like to keep abreast of the latest thinking among better players than me. Traditionally, the low B an

[NSP] Re: Historical image of John Dunn, John Peacock?

2011-05-04 Thread Matt Seattle
This sentence, as well as the omission of editorship, It is the inaccurate '2nd edition' rather than the 3rd which is of more concern than the omission of editorship -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[NSP] Re: Historical image of John Dunn, John Peacock?

2011-05-04 Thread Philip Gruar
- Original Message - From: "Matt Seattle" Also, I wonder whether the keywork added by Dunn was 'chromatic' at this stage, but others will know more about this than I do. No it was not chromatic, being just the four keys for low D, E, Fsharp and high A, which just extended the ran

[NSP] Re: Historical image of John Dunn, John Peacock?

2011-05-04 Thread Francis Wood
On 4 May 2011, at 09:52, Matt Seattle wrote: > Also, I wonder whether the keywork added by Dunn was 'chromatic' at > this stage, but others will know more about this than I do. Hi Matt, I think the problem with this text is that it allows some ambiguity. It's true that Dunn was the first t

[NSP] Re: Historical image of John Dunn, John Peacock?

2011-05-04 Thread Matt Seattle
It casts doubt on the reliability of wikipedia is that the 3rd edition of Bewick's Pipe Tunes is given as 'Bewick's Pipe Tunes', 2nd ed., Northumbrian Pipers' Society, (2010) and without crediting any editor Also, I wonder whether the keywork added by Dunn was 'chromatic' at thi