The link via the Union Flag button doesn't work but the translation
follows the French. It's hilarious!
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Sent: 29 May 2011 10:30
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that the Reids worked to a chosen pitch standard in the same
way as did Silbermann or - more relevant here - the Hotteterre gang.
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Sent: 09 February 2011 10:31
differing
lengths and hole placements for tuning to different pitch standards.
So in fact the variety of pitches for the NSP is extremely traditional! Two
hundred years ago it wouldn't have been thought in any way remarkable.
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Quite a bit of info at
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/GEO_GH.htm
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organ for harpsichord (although both
instruments can change their registration, which in a sense is changing the
dynamics, i.e. terraced dynamics).
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Paul Gretton
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Sent
This might just explain why the Dutch for the silly season is ...errm...
cucumber time (komkommertijd). ;-)
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Sent: 12 August 2010 18:42
To: Richard
that will almost certainly have been on Channel 4. Lovely film!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombon_%28film%29
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Sent: donderdag 8 juli 2010 17:54
To: nsp
the two parts. This makes
the woodwork much simpler and you get a more accurate joint.
I was only alerted to this AFTER already building a couple of cases.
D'oh... J
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is that
the bigger the diameter, the greater the length you have to buy. At that
diameter, you might need to buy thirty feet!
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, despite a classical musical education.
But I like this mix.)
:-)
Richard.
Nice one, Richard. But did you know that a recent survey showed that 96.83%
of people who say that they don't like Wagner's operas have never actually
heard or attended one? ;-)
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(who just this morning
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From: Paul Gretton [mailto:i...@gretton-willems.com]
Sent: 06 February 2010 11:00
To: 'Anthony Robb'
Subject: RE: [NSP] Re: Gaelic Pronunciation
I don't actually want to reply to this but I can hardly
There's a youtube of Maureen Hegarty singing a particularly attractive
version at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NraclF8vRX8 , with a link to
her own youtube with her singing a lot of other Irish classics.
particularly attractive ? LOL! How about Make sure you have a barf bag
handy before you
Which I of course did -- pretty sharpish. But this is a forum for DISCUSSING
things. A contributor expressed his opinion and I did the same. Don't let it
bother you! ;-)
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in any case prefer us to use Persian.)
Cheers,
Nasty (and pedantic) Paul
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Sent: 05 February 2010 11:40
To: anth...@robbpipes.com; nsp
Of Anthony Robb
Sent: 05 February 2010 17:20
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu; Paul Gretton
Subject: [NSP] Re: Gaelic Pronunciation
Since when did gratuitous nastiness become discussion?
There are polite/witty ways of giving an opinion. Being cruelly
revolting about a piece that truly speaks
This should be of interest:
[1]http://www.youtube.com/user/pipensack#p/a/f/1/2OVYA-DJ_og
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Actually, that's what I meant to link to!
Here's the direct link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OVYA-DJ_og
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Sent: 05 December 2009 10:44
To: Paul
/Prince_Philip_Movement). Of course Philip did
descend from the heavens in a helicopter, and I see you more as a 2CV kind
of chap.
(I suppose I'd better put in a smiley here.) :-)
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Paul Gretton
From: Anthony
Handel
festivals and organisations like the Huddersfield Choral Society.
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It just occurred to me that I ought to have added:
To get an idea of the culture that fostered musical literacy even among very
ordinary people, just read D.H. Lawrence, specifically Sons and Lovers.
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Francis wrote:
P. S. Are there dates for this course?
I think the idea is probably that you bring your own date. But I'm sure an
ad hoc committee can make appropriate arrangements for you.
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of
thing that puts people off the Society.
It's OK to be a curmudgeon, but you are starting to sound rather sad.
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Paul Gretton
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Sent: 19 October 2009 13:55
To: malc
is of course much nicer than 99.999% of
people's handwriting.
What was good enough for Beethoven and Tom Clough is good enough for me.
Errr.sorry, could you speak up a bit?
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, you wimp!!!
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Confucius, he say: Flee argument; seek peace, quiet, harmony.
Rodney King, he say: People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get
along?
NSP Committee, they say: Come all without, come all within,
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quin.
Francis Wood, he say: I'd like to teach the
they would not want to keep track of this list?
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
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From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf
Of Julia Say
Sent: 21 May 2009 11:17
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [NSP] Re: Colin Ross
On 21 May 2009, Richard Evans
enough to take up the
latter post even though he has resigned the former.
I would hope that the committee would be able to find some solution --
within the rules -- that would allow Colin to become President if (a), (b),
and (c) apply.
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Paul Gretton
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Very interesting. It would seem that some authorities are more
authoritative than others.
Oink, oink.
Chirs
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Oink, oink
So you're aligning yourself with those that are MORE authoritative, then?
;-)
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nowadays as a kind of New Age
instrument to be played with lots of swirly reverb.
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Don't you in fact mean
'ere, 'ere
?
As in
'ere, 'ere! You lads stop messing around or I've give you a clip round the
ear! (says Dixon of Dock Green).
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
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Sent: 15 April 2009 09:57
To: Dartmouth
message to mean that Lisa Ridley posted her comments from your
computer. Surely I'm wrong?
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
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From: Chris Ormston [mailto:ch...@chrisormston.com]
Sent: 14 April 2009 01:18
To: 'Anthony Robb'; 'Rick Damon'; 'Dartmouth NPS'
Subject: [NSP] Re: Lisa
David Baker wrote:
Had it not been for certain groups of musicians breaking the rules
because what resulted sounded good to them, the only style of trumpet
playing would be baroque, and jazz would not exist (to give but one
example).
Hmmm...that is a very interesting take on the history of
EXACTLY!!!
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Paul Gretton
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From: Anthony Robb [mailto:anth...@robbpipes.com]
Sent: 14 April 2009 12:01
To: Dartmouth NPS
Subject: [NSP] Style
Something may be wrong when playing a given style music (like
playing jazz as if it was classical and vice versa
Chris wrote:
like opera singers their brute power and vibrato
I think you need to listen to more (good) opera singers, mate!
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for their
current production of Tristan und Isolde? Richard Decker and Annalena
Persson sing wonderfully and they look marvellous too. A terrific
production.
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
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From: christopher.bi...@ec.europa.eu [mailto:christopher.bi...@ec.europa.eu]
Sent: 14
the nature of the music.
Or -- since you're about to become an opera buff :-) -- I would prefer to
hear Isolde sung by Flagstad or Nilsson rather than by Emma Kirkby! (and
vice versa for Rameau or Lully)
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? Or
would you prefer us to believe that you are an illiterate sheep-xxx from
up a hillside somewhere north of Wooler??
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Paul Gretton
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Sent: 14 April 2009 21:44
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu; what.me
Subject: [NSP
as
Northumbies. Try it - you'll notice the improvement instantly!
;-)
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Just a tiny question, Lisa. You don't happen to have a child of your own who
enters NSP competitions, do you? Just curious.
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From: lisa ridley [mailto:lisaridley6...@hotmail.com]
Sent: 13 April 2009 11:45
To: helen.ca...@paradise.net.nz; pipers
played as if it were a Laendler, the folk dance
from which it derives.
Sorry to rant on about posh stuff like this. I shall reel off to the
pub for a quick clog dance.
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Malcolm's spelling errors seem to put him in good company, Colin, don't you
think? ;-)
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From: rosspi...@aol.com [mailto:rosspi...@aol.com]
Sent: 06 March 2009 11:42
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [NSP] malcom's final solution
I have published
Wot's them when them's out, Colon?
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From: rosspi...@aol.com [mailto:rosspi...@aol.com]
Sent: 06 March 2009 19:20
To: i...@gretton-willems.com
Subject: Re: [NSP] Re: malcom's final solution
At least mine were typing omissions.
CR
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Oops! Yes, I do mean that he ruined his **right** hand. He used to play in
the standard way with the instrument on his left shoulder and the bow in his
right hand. Now he plays the other way round.
Paul
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From: christopher.bi...@ec.europa.eu
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From: Paul Gretton [mailto:i...@gretton-willems.com]
Sent: 15 January 2009 11:51
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [NSP] Re: Prints of pipers
Oops! Yes, I do mean that he ruined his **right** hand.
DAMMIT! NO, I DON'T that...@#*$%#!!
I mean he ruined his LEFT hand
with a German violinist who had had an
accident that ruined his right hand; he re-taught himself to play
left-handed. (Just think what that involves form the neurological
point of view!!!) That was SERIOUSLY disorientating - and his desk
partner feared for her eyes!
Cheers,
Paul
There were certainly engravers who got it wrong (perhaps as a result of the
system of mirrors that they may have used), but the vast majority were
professionals who were well aware that the ultimate product would be a
mirror image of what was on the plate.
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
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:
˘ / ˘ / ˘ /
To be or not to be...
˘ / ˘ / ˘ / / /
My love is like a red red rose...
(PLEASE let's not get into a discussion of whether I've scanned these
appropriately - you all know what I mean.)
If the ˘ doesn't show up properly, an alternative is to use 0.
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
that makes things perfectly clear. We can
probably drop this topic now.
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Performing-Pitch-Bruce-Haynes/dp/0810841851/
ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1226584158sr=8-5
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Be it upon your own head! ...or rather your stomach. I hope you have a
strong one.
BTW, Highland Kitschthedral is not the other one that I referred to.
That's another one. ;-)
Paul Gretton
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Sent: 12 November 2008 00:44
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'fraid not, Colin. You'll just have to live with it. Big fan of The
Carpenters too, are you?
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Paul Gretton
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Sent: 12 November 2008 13:52
To: NSP List
Subject: [NSP] Re: Music for funeral
Alas, I'm finding myself saying oh
This tells you it all you need to know. ;-)
[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhHAojVyeG0
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defence that there is an enormous difference between the glorious
lirico-spinto that he was originally (and which he remained for much of
his career) and the musical buffoon of his latter years, with all the
Three Tenors and Nessun-Dorma-as-a-football-anthem crap.
Cheers,
Paul
at all;
- grace notes (or gracings), i.e. twiddly bits that are
not necessary for articulation but are put in because the composer or
player thinks they sound good.
Choyting on the NSP would fall into the latter category.
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All over Geordieland, pitmen and shepherds have been burning the
midnight oil putting the finishing touches to The Magpies' Lament,
aka Will `e or won't `e? aka 'Appen `e as, `appen `e asn't.
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don't see how choosing to play a
particular instrument would reconnect me to my youth (assuming that
that would be a good thing).
Cheers (and not wishing to be unpleasant in any way).
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of articulations.
I don't think Clough meant that everything should be played
staccatissimo. That's not how he played himself, to judge by the
recordings.
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, but admittedly not northeast dialects. ;-) )
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Alkmaar.
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Sent: 29 January 2008 00:08
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Subject: [NSP] Pipers in the Netherlands ?
Evening all - I've had an e-mail from someone
with the activity of hunting dogs in
general, not just decoy dogs.
Paul Gretton (ex-lexicographer)
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Sent: 11 December 2007 19:37
To: Dru Brooke-Taylor
Cc: nsp
Subject: [NSP] Re: old Towler
What does the word towler mean? I've looked
player is
called on to play at 415, 392, or 466 as opposed to 440, they will use an
instrument built for that pitch rather than transpose.
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
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From: Ewan Barker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 28 May 2007 02:36
To: Paul Gretton
Subject: [NSP] Re: G Set
Hilarious John! Have you thought of doing stand-up? ;-)
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
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From: Rev John Clifford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 26 May 2007 21:01
To: Klaus Guhl
Cc: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [NSP] Re: G Set
Klaus,
There is an alternative, and much cheaper
, but still) If there are specialists in Amsterdam and
Cologne, I would be sure that there will be at least one in Seattle.
Cheers, Paul Gretton
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Sent: 08 May 2007 18:10
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [NSP] thumb
Mike Sharp wrote:
Paul Gretton wrote:
Why not do a Nancy Reagan and Just Say NO! ? (BTW, it's copyright.)
Just Say No! ...to empty, dogmatic slogans.
Just Say No! .to people who lack a sense of humour. ;-)
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I could tell you a story about trying to buy nitric acid from a local pharmacy
here in Holland to use for etching. I eventually got it, but I had to show them
a plate that I'd already etched before they'd believe me.
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
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