Sorry, forgot to delete the names in reply all. Apologies for multiple
replies!
Colin Hill
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From: Matt Seattle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: nsp nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu; Dru Brooke-Taylor
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 8:48 AM
Subject: [NSP] Re: Dark Island
it? Surely it's the
style and the music that makes it traditional and not just the instrument.
Remember, that traditional Morris instrument the concertina isn't that old
but the style of playing the tunes is.
Maybe that's the issue that angers/outrages?
Just a thought.
Colin Hill
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When Colin Ross refurbished my Hedworth set some years back, he replaced the
original cane reeds with metal body/cane tongue ones and, to be honest, I
have found them far more stable and (I didn't think I would like them as
they were not the traditional ones), I actually prefer the sound they
make
started something there).
No, I'm not connected with it other than as a member and I probably cost
them a fortune as I joined as a life member back in '72. I do think they are
very important though.
Colin Hill
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From: Gibbons, John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED
convinced as they still mentioned not taking it
without asking the doctor first (as far as I know, he doesn't play).
You can buy rat poison quite easily but liquid paraffin?
A letter from the Chief Rabbi, Archbishop of Canterbury and the Pope is
required first (if they stock it at all).
Colin Hill
Not starting with J, L or M, mine arrived in Liverpool at 10.00am today.
Colin Hill
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From: Julia Say [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 6:12 PM
Subject: [NSP] NPS July newsletter
This was posted to members today, except
feedback right away. More will follow, honest.
There's probably someone nearer than you think.
Hang in there,
Colin Hill
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From: Matthew Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 5:57 PM
Subject: [NSP] Starting out
Greetings
://www.evansweb.co.uk/index.html
I'm sure he will help such a well-known artist.
Just to call me a liar, you will probably get lots of replies now!
Colin Hill
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From: Helen Capes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 9:04 PM
Subject: [NSP] Looking
break).
Colin Hill
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From: Paul Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 5:19 PM
Subject: [NSP] Keyless Pipes
Hi All,
As to 'bald on top and bearded', in our house it's called having heavy
hair.
Does anyone else have the same
Ouch.
I didn't say it SOUNDED good though, did I. :-p
Colin Hill
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From: Chris Ormston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'Colin' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 9:42 PM
Subject: RE: [NSP] Re: Kathryn Tickell on Radio 3
No it Disnae
No doubt we will let you know grin.
Colin Hill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 6:14 PM
Subject: [NSP] NPS Dec NL, mag etc
Apologies to those whom this does not concern.
The Dec NL, annual mag, and AGM notice etc
Isn't that the purpose of the D# key?
Colin Hill
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From: Chris Ormston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'andy may' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'NSP List'
nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 10:20 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: Ormston caught in open fingering scandal
I've
Ok, fair enough. I wasn't brave enough to be the first but I have done it
know and shall be trying the tune tomorrow (bit too late tonight)
Sorry for being suspicious but once bitten.
I can also confirm for others that there's nothing hidden in it
Colin Hill.
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Nice Tune.
Darn handy those abcs - no need to wake the neighbours to hear it!
Colin Hill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: NSP List [nsp] nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 10:30 PM
Subject: [NSP] Shivers Down Your Spine
Who had the idea the other day
a discussion on this list, replaced the
cotton (which I hadn't known was there) which was saturated with
aforementioned oil (together with a few years of lavender and almond oil as
well) which corrected the problem with only a few minutes work.
That sort of maintenance I like!
Colin Hill
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that sounded like foghorns and ones that hardly gave a sound even
when the veins on your neck were sticking out (yes, I have given up now,
Colin R made and set mine some years back and they are still fine).
I would certainly try replacing at least one reed with a known, good one
just to try and also
quite obvious and, having them a little off illustrates the beating very
well and how just a teeny adjustment gets them right.
Wish this had been around years ago. Congratulations..
Thanks for sharing this.
Colin Hill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent
It's a corruption of Jowler I think. Jowls being the dog's jaws or in that
area, of course. I haven't researched it but I presume it's a verb to jowl
ie to mouth something as in hunting.
Colin Hill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Dru Brooke-Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc
Oh, as a PS, this is from thefreedictionary.com
Jowl´er
n. 1. (Zool.) A dog with large jowls, as the beagle.
Colin Hill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Dru Brooke-Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: nsp nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 6:36 PM
Subject
I had squeaks that were caused by the cotton wool plug being soaked with
the oil.
That cotton wool has a lot to answer for - and don't we all forget about it?
Colin Hill
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From: Helen Capes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Dartmouth N.P.S. site nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent
Very remiss of me not to have acknowledged a good tune.
After changing PCs I had a little trouble finding abc2midi (found it now) to
reinstall so used ABCNavigator which also prints the dots and just forgot to
respond to the original posting,
Sorry.
Colin Hill.
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you could manage.
They only do all cane drones though.
Colin Hill
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From: DAVID KORALYNN BOISVERT [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:17 PM
Subject: [NSP] reeds
Greetings,
For some odd reason I've had the most difficult time
to transcribe..
Colin Hill
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From: Bart Blanquart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Ken Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 6:43 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: Flowers of the Forest
Ken Campbell wrote:
Can someone please direct
Anyone managed Pachebel Canon in D at a wedding yet?
:)
Colin Hill
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From: Ormston, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 11:41 AM
Subject: [NSP] Re: Flowers...OT
Vickers at weddings?? I think you meant
://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0JG45/thehistorofbr-21
Hope this helps.
Colin Hill
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From: the Red Goblin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 6:46 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: Ewan MacColl
Does anyone know where I can get
(or not
being able to be read).
Nearly all were meant to be Theresa and usually named from a Saint. I
remember quite a few other mis-spellings as well..
That's the 1980's. Heaven help us in the earlier times.
Colin Hill
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From: the Red Goblin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: NSP group nsp
I have this vivid mental image of a poor piper being met with a slow hand
clap and the cries of choyte choyte choyte after a rendition where
he/she slipped one in in a moment of mental aberration.
Colin Hill
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From: Gibbons, John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL
Ah, that was avoiding a choyte whilst typing.
Finger firmly down on the caps lock.
Colin Hill
From: Richard Shuttleworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu; colin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 11:25 PM
Subject: Re: [NSP] Re: deadly sins
Would you be having sex
in a topical remark).
Maybe we should divide the Island into two with choyters at one end and
non-choyters at the other in a Lilliputian style?
Colin Hill
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From: Ian Lawther [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Sunday, August 24
we should have a society red nose for such players :)
Can I put my name down now.
Colin Hill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 2:29 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: More choyting!
What about
and quite happy here.
Colin Hill
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From: Paul Gretton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 7:29 PM
Subject: [NSP] the cry of the curlew, the wind in the reeds...
Allan wrote:
Why the condescending groan at my desire to play
all the southerners into real human beings.
I avoid the IOM, don't trust people with 3 legs. inveterate choyters, if you
ask me :)
Colin Hill
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From: Paul Gretton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 8:57 PM
Subject: [NSP] It's
enthusiastic!
Colin Hill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 10:38 AM
Subject: *** SPAM *** RE: [NSP] Re: the cry of the curlew, the wind in the
reeds...
There were many Folk clubs during the 60's - 80's
days for folk.
Colin Hill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:13 PM
Subject: RE: [NSP] Re: the cry of the curlew, the wind in the reeds...
Ah, I left in 1968 and have not been back
the worst they could say You plonker, couldn't you tell it was wrong
in 9 months - you plantpot or no.
Believe me, the enjoyment you will get when it's in tune will be well worth
the risk!
Colin Hill
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From: Wright Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nsp
the height of either industry or shipbuilding there, I think.
Colin Hill
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From: Richard York [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: NSP group nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 3:30 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: tchuning
No, it's a sort of sail, hence Lugger.
Isn't
in Scotland.
Fascinating the study of etymology.
Colin Hill
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From: Ian Lawther [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: colin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: NSP group nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 5:52 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: tchuning
As the Oxford Dictionary defines lug
.
Colin Hill
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From: Mike Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: NSP Mailing List nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 7:56 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: George Atkinson recordings
After posting I noticed that I could only play the second recording
Oh very good!
I'll download that for reference purposes :)
Colin Hill
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From: Paul Gretton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 3:47 PM
Subject: [NSP] tchuning
This tells you it all you need to know. ;-)
[1]http
I suspect that, had they had a few pipers (male and female) in their sample,
they would have given up and gone home at it would have thrown their results
out :)
Colin Hill
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From: tim rolls BT [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Richard York [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: nsp
have some hammer
dulcimer tunes copied to a blank CD just in case I pop my clogs - really
nice, fast happy stuff - don't want it to be too miserable - I'm generally a
happy bloke).
Colin Hill
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From: Matt Seattle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: the Red Goblin [EMAIL PROTECTED
You swine!
I don't know it either so I'm having Googling frantically for an audio file
now (safer then choyting) to see what I'm missing!
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Paul Gretton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 7:32 PM
Subject
Just don't get us playing Kumbya. :)
Colin Hill
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From: Jim Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: NSP Mailing List nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 9:00 PM
Subject: [NSP] Amazing Grace
Dear Paul Gretton,
Relax. Chill out. Take a pill. The sky isn't
Or, in practical terms, a few bottles of good brandy, a fine woman and a
good cigar.
maybe enough left over for a Bakewell pudding :)
Colin Hill
PS
Thanks for that link. Invaluable to those of us who remember threepenny
bits, silver sixpences and half crowns and, in my case (just) farthings
Reading this reminded me of something. Jimmy Allan was the reason I had Bill
Hedworth make me a 7 key chanter. I couldn't play it on a simple one and I
rather liked the tune.
I'd forgotten about that until this reminded me.
Colin Hill
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From: Barry Say barr
gurdy as well - you unscrew the handle if you play it left handed :0 Unless
it's constructed that way, of course with a reverse thread.
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Dave S david...@pt.lu
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 12:32 PM
Subject: [NSP] Images
one or are there any indications as to an older date/source etc. 1964
isn't that long ago to some of us.
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Gibbons, John j.gibb...@imperial.ac.uk
To: Alan Corkett a...@bcorkett.freeserve.co.uk; nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:40
(and probably take more
time - plastic not being as amiable to work with as wood).
Is this one of the reasons why it never happened - that, even in plastic,
each chanter would have to be tuned by hand?
Just wondering.
Colin Hill
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From: Philip Gruar phi
Thanks for that. It's nice to know that the idea was followed up. Being out
of region (Liverpool) if it's not in the magazine or on the list, I probably
won't know about it :-).
I'll be watching this list with interest for more news.
Colin Hill
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From: pipe
(presently out of print) but just can't seem to make the time so do realise
the work involved.
Just a thought.
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: rosspi...@aol.com
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 6:21 PM
Subject: [NSP] first 30 tunes
The NPS has just published
to it by playing all the
tunes on the piano and making it available as an mp3.
The cries of ah, that's how that bit goes continue to echo.
Colin Hill
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From: Mike and Enid Walton mikeande...@worcesterfolk.org.uk
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Saturday, March 07
is still learning.
Speaking for myself and listening to some very simple, easy tunes (so it was
said) played by members of this list, I would have happily burnt my chanter
and given up years ago.
However, playing the midi version gives some hope that you are, actually,
playing a tune!
Colin Hill
the mail program formats it, I'm sure, but I
don't know quite what.
Seems to be something to do with the spacing?
Colin Hill.
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From: tim rolls BT tim.ro...@btconnect.com
To: 'NSP List' nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu; Chris Ormston
ch...@chrisormston.com
Sent: Saturday, March 14
Works perfectly now.
Great tune.
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Chris Ormston ch...@chrisormston.com
To: 'tim rolls BT' tim.ro...@btconnect.com; 'NSP List'
nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 10:04 AM
Subject: [NSP] Re: Keep on Ranting!
Tim,
Try pasting
Got mine this morning.
Making donations tomorrow :)
Thanks, it's great!
Colin Hill
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From: Anthony Robb anth...@robbpipes.com
To: Dartmouth NPS nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:27 PM
Subject: [NSP] Rothbury 1990
Hellos apiece
Here's
).
I'm with Orange and they do, on occasions, get blacklisted for Spam.
Just wondering.
Colin Hill
To get on or off this list see list information at
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
actually have the server (demon?) blacklisted as I was getting hundreds of
returns from emails that I hadn't sent - from cwhii@myemail
infod@myemail etc so, if one was bounced, I wouldn't see it as it gets
deleted from the server.
Normally they appear within a few minutes.
Colin Hill
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and don't.
Now, where are those NZ green mussels...
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Richard Hensold hens...@world.oberlin.edu
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 5:11 AM
Subject: [NSP] stiff fingers and aging
I was apparently doing something
As it says on the box.
Seems my own messages are sometimes being deleted by an over-zelous
Mailwasher so just checking :)
Colin Hill
To get on or off this list see list information at
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
isn't aware of what should be done and what
shouldn't.
Colin Hill
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From: lisa ridley lisaridley6...@hotmail.com
To: helen.ca...@paradise.net.nz; pipers list nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 10:45 AM
Subject: [NSP] Re: Re:
Apologies, I was under
and switch to Scottish small pipes for open?
May sound odd to us but the right to do our own thing remains. We don't
have to like it, of course :)
We'll never all agree.
Hopefully the two can co-exist.
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: christopher.bi...@ec.europa.eu
To: anth
second, surely?
Let's not argue over which end of the egg to open :)
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Anthony Robb anth...@robbpipes.com
To: Dartmouth NPS nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 11:25 AM
Subject: [NSP] Not again!
Hello again
The number of people
to a CD before it's lost forever.
I also like KTs playing when done in the style I'm more used to.
Let's face it, the problem we've been discussing is all down to the fact
that the reporter had probably never heard the pipes played before.
We must get out more! :-)
Colin Hill
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Maybe we are heading backwards to the days of playing and non-playing
members when one had to actually play the pipes before members (or send a
tape if you were too far away or abroad) so they could decide if you could
play or not. :)
Colin Hill
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From: Paul Rhodes
has gone before.
Bad playing is just bad playing. We can all do that - some just faster than
others :-)
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: what.me what...@ntlworld.com
To: Dartmouth NPS nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 7:18 PM
Subject: [NSP] nps
I seem
been through the
process of being used to refer to a bad wailing sound soon after the French
Revolution when it fell out of favour and was played (often badly) by
beggars etc.
We don't want that to happen to the pipes, do we?
Colin Hill
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From: Ian Lawther irlawt
, of course, no-no's for Yehudi.
Nobody could possibly claim that these two were not masters of the violin
but both styles and interpretation of the dots were very different as was
their method of playing (vibrato, bowing etc).
This discussion does remind me of it each time it comes around.
Colin
Thank you for putting into word what I was thinking.
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Anthony Robb anth...@robbpipes.com
To: Dartmouth NPS nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 12:55 PM
Subject: [NSP] Colin Ross
Dear All
What a shame Colin Ross has stood down
can from emails. That's not good and will totally rely on how
vehement or eloquent the writer may be.
Let's have it all out in the open (isn't that what minutes are for???).
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Dave Shaw d...@daveshaw.co.uk
To: annsess...@yahoo.co.uk; nsp
this debate will open up a new communications
channel.
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Julia Say julia@nspipes.co.uk
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu; colin cwh...@santa-fe.freeserve.co.uk
Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: [NSP] Re: NPS President and more.
On 23 May 2009
Thank you.
I found that a really good listen. Why can't we have stuff like this on the
radio now?
Shame you didn't get the AA stuff from Pebble Mill as well. :)
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Francis Wood oatenp...@googlemail.com
To: pipers list nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent
Quite the opposite. Roll up, roll up. Join the society and get all the fun
of the fair :-)
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Ian Carol Bartlett (home account) i...@ihug.co.nz
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 10:06 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: Alternative/extra NPS
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
- Original Message -
From: Dave S david...@pt.lu
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 7:11 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: this list
notes rather than the phrasing etc
until I can hear someone else playing the tune and then it falls into place.
Dot illiteracy, I suppose. :(
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Richard Evans rich...@evansweb.co.uk
Cc: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 10:17 AM
Subject
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Dally, John john.da...@hmhpub.com
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 10:20 PM
Subject: [NSP] Happy Hours
Andy May's new CD is full of great music. I've listened to it over and
over again ever since I got my hands
are not :)
Unless it's a concerto, hand copying is probably the best bet or ABC,
convert to midi, transpose and print out.
Plenty of stuff out there to do that.
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Christopher Gregg chrisdgr...@gmail.com
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Friday, July 31
forward to reading the mails as I know what's coming.
Sorry but I'm really getting fed up with reading the snide remarks these
days (plus most is lost on me as I don't know the people concerned).
Bah, Humbug...
Colin Hill
of a course on piping would be accepted as news
regardless of who was running it?
Colin Hill
(Life Member of NPS since around 1972/3)
- Original Message -
From: rosspi...@aol.com
To: neiltaver...@btinternet.com
Cc: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 4:53 PM
Subject
- Original Message -
From: rosspi...@aol.com
To: neiltaver...@btinternet.com
Cc: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 4:53 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: Northumbria Pipe Course 11-16 October - Places available
No problem as you are doing it as a group activity and there is
May I please apologise for filling mailboxes by hitting reply all and not
removing the individual names and just sending one copy to the list, sorry.
Colin Hill (told you I was old) :-)
- Original Message -
From: Gibbons, John j.gibb...@imperial.ac.uk
To: 'Dartmouth nsp list N.P.S
the information.
Why all the fuss then?
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Richard Shuttleworth rshuttlewo...@sympatico.ca
To: neiltaver...@btinternet.com; rosspi...@aol.com; colin
cwh...@santa-fe.freeserve.co.uk
Cc: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 9:51 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re
.
Barren whores, wrinkled old ladies?Maybe the cigar IS just a cigar after
all. ;-)
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: richard.hea...@tiscali.co.uk
To: discuss...@northumbrianpipers.org.uk; nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 12:51 PM
Subject: [NSP] Cut and Dry
How nice to have a little humour again.
On a positive note, I shall now be operating my gentle summer breeze
emulator whilst ensuring my selected harmonic pipes are, indeed, in
harmony.
A gentle squeeze of the cuddlesac and away we go.
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: amble
(and probably illegal now) frequency.
Are the channel 69 mics transmitted from a central source?
As you gather, I'm not that clued up about these things.
Colin Hill
- Original Message -
From: Richard York rich...@lizards.force9.co.uk
To: NSP group nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday
or German whilst on holiday.
Colin Hill
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From: Mike and Enid Walton mikeande...@worcesterfolk.org.uk
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu; colin cwh...@santa-fe.freeserve.co.uk
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: [NSP] Re: From notation to music
A friend
it. Two players, same notes,
different performance.
On the subject of classical players, I do feel one should take into account
that, when playing in an orchestra, doing one's own thing may not be a good
idea :-)
A time and a place for everything.
Colin Hill
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From
Must be the cold weather. It plays havoc with corns.
Haven't seen as much since I watched (by accident) Oklahoma.
Colin Hill
PS Thanks for the big grin in brought to my face :)
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From: Francis Wood oatenp...@googlemail.com
To: Dartmouth NPS nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent
I'd go with that.
Problem with Northumbrian is that it may appear that it refers to where
the artist comes from (as in Colin Hill, Liverpudlian small-pipes player).
;-)
Northumbrian piper may suggest a piper from Northumberland who plays
bagpipes (any).
Northumberland small-pipes player
knowing what the adjective describes, isn't it and that Northumbrian
small-pipes is the name of the instrument?
Colin Hill
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From: Richard York rich...@lizards.force9.co.uk
To: colin cwh...@santa-fe.freeserve.co.uk; NSP group
nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, January 05
://www.lloydspharmacy.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=1008storeId=90productId=325219langId=-1
I'm sure we'll get a plethora of other suggestions ;)
Colin Hill
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From: Richard York rich...@lizards.force9.co.uk
To: Francis Wood oatenp...@googlemail.com
to change it. Sodden bungs mess up the tuning (he says knowingly
after ages of despair before some kind soul on this list put me right about
wet bungs).
Colin Hill
Colin Hill
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From: Tom Childs tomspip...@hotmail.com
To: Dartmouth NPS nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent
lies in how often the set is played/maintained as suggested
by others rather than a simple which oil is best.
Colin Hill
To get on or off this list see list information at
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
though before parting with large sums
of cash for what you can get free on the Internet (and, let's face it, the
Wikpedia is always 100% accurate isn't it?) - (that was meant to be
sarcastic, by the way).
Good for you to point it out Matt, thanks (puts cheque book away).
Colin Hill
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of music and
thought those on this list may wish to sign. Several other music lists I am
on have done so already so sorry if this is a repeat.
If anyone would like to sign the petition, it's at:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/VandAchange/
Colin Hill
To get on or off this list see list
from above means stop and
hide :)
Colin Hill
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From: Anita Evans an...@evansweb.co.uk
To: Dartmouth nsp list N.P.S. site nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 2:20 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: the Guardian today
Malcolm Craven wrote:
Hi,
What is B
suggest they are problematic only after having them fettled, maybe
someone here could suggest a fix?
Colin Hill
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From: pipe...@tiscali.co.uk
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 7:50 PM
Subject: [NSP] NSP Bellows
Hi All,
Not a discussion
the post
a couple of times as well without problems (chanters and drones wrapped in
bits of silk shirt - bought for 50p in a charity shop and contained in
stout cardboard tubes).
I have no idea if he made it himself or if he bought it somewhere.
It'll outlast me :-)
Colin Hill
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- lift it off smartly (half
open holes can make funny noises).
Sorry, that's all I can think of from my own experience. I'm sure lots of
good suggestions will follow.
Colin Hill.
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From: neihutch...@yahoo.com
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 12:03
for one drone sound so I suppose that accounts for it. Usr the ones
that sound best.
(Joins Helen under the parapet) :)
Colin Hill
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From: Helen Capes helen.ca...@paradise.net.nz
To: cal...@aol.com; nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 6:47 AM
Subject: [NSP
A plague in all your households. Well, not quite (and I seem not to have
received most of the posts for this topic) but the next best thing
http://www.rampantscotland.com/songs/blsongs_dark.htm
Anyone brave enough to listen to the mp3.
Actually, I quite like it.
Colin Hill
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