Hi Reid,
Another NSP player in the US would be wonderful!
There's a group that meets somewhat intermittently on the East Coast
(we call ourselves Mi-Atlantic but this may be mis-interpreted as being
half way to Northumberland). The center of gravity of this is
Pennsylvania but we have two players in the Baltimore/Washington area.
Check out this link [1]http://upmw.smad.us/squeezethebag/ for an event
in January in WV not far from DC which has a full NSP program as well
as other bellows pipes.
Don't worry about starting when over the hill, I ordered my first set
on my 60th birthday.
Contact / call off-list if you need any help advice from someone who
has recently gone through the learning process without any local help.
Colin McNaught
Annapolis, MD
410 849 2961
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Reid Bishop
[2]greidbis...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Richard
Wow I am just really overwhelmed with the encouraging responses this
group has given me. Thanks to you and others for helping me work
this out. I am in fact very interested in getting a loner set from
an appropriate source as soon as is reasonable. John wrote back
saying his are currently spoken for so I am interested in renting
one of you sets. How do we proceed?
I have some time over the Christmas holidays to devote some time to
the effort. I would love to get on somebody's loner list. I am
also checking out the pipers gathering information as suggested.
Cheers
Reid
On Nov 13, 2010, at 8:48 PM, Richard Shuttleworth
[3]rshuttlewo...@sympatico.ca wrote:
Hello Reid,
You can find help through the Pipers' Gathering which holds a
convention in early August each year in Vermont. Visit
[4]www.pipersgathering.org for all the basic details. We have two sets
of Northumbrian small pipes and two sets of Scottish small pipes
available for rent (although some are already in use) and if John
Leistman doesn't have a set available at this time then we may be able
to help you out. Through our mailing list, we may be able to put you
in touch with pipers living near you or failing that offer you some
advice and encouragement via Skype.
Keep in touch!
Richard
ps The Pipers' Gathering is always looking for sets that we can use as
rental sets to help prospective pipers get started on their road to
ruin. If anyone knows of sets that are currently languishing in a
cupboard then we would love to hear from you!
- Original Message - From: Reid Bishop
[5]greidbis...@gmail.com
To: Ian Lawther [6]irlawt...@comcast.net
Cc: NSP group [7]...@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 3:42 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: My little tune sponge
Hideeho,
I am new to the nsp list serve. I play fiddle and a few other
stringed instruments in various Celtic trad styles. My love of Celtic
music began when I was 12 listening to Scottish pipers. I am turning
40 this month and have decided at long last that I want to pipe! I
play routinely with my family who are also trad players so I need
something to play tunes on that context at least occassionally. I am
growing in fascination with the NSP. How should I start? Better
should I start given that I am now officially over the hill and have
never played any kind of a wind instrument. Are Scottish smallpipes
more appropriate. I am handy with fixing and maintaining instruments.
Help!
Cheers
Reid
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G. Reid Bishop, Ph.D.
Director
Mississippi River Field Institute
National Audubon Society
1208 Washington St.
Vicksburg, MS 39183
Office: (601)-661-6189
Mobile: (601)-214-5261
Email: [8]rbis...@audubon.org
Web:[9]mri.audubon.org
On Nov 13, 2010, at 2:18 PM, Ian Lawther [10]irlawt...@comcast.net
wrote:
My youngest daughter (10) has always been a little bit of a tune
sponge though she has refused to join the school choir (much to the
teachers disappointment) and only recently took up an instrument
(flute). Last night she was whistling something from Holst's The
Planets which she picked up somewhere but right now she is sitting
playing with Lego and whistling Morpeth Rantwhich I happened to be
practicing on the melodeon about half and hour ago. She does it better
than I was doing.
Ian
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References
1. http://upmw.smad.us/squeezethebag/
2. mailto:greidbis...@gmail.com
3. mailto:rshuttlewo...@sympatico.ca
4. http://www.pipersgathering.org/
5. mailto:greidbis...@gmail.com
6. mailto:irlawt...@comcast.net
7. mailto:nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
8. mailto:rbis...@audubon.org
9. http://mri.audubon.org/
10. mailto:irlawt...@comcast.net
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