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Subject: [NSP] Re: Reel of Tullochgorum
Interesting.?
I learned tin whistle by ear back in the 60's and play left handed - right
hand nearest mouth purely because that seemed right for me (I am right handed).?
When I got my first set of pipes (simple
Could he be left handed or is the print
backwards, I wonder.
In fact the whole thing is left-handed so either of the above explanations are
possible.
More puzzling is the painting (Dutch 17th C) of a bellowspiper in Carbisdale
Castle / Yoof Hostel, which is normal except that the piper has
In a message dated 14/01/2009 00:24:15 GMT Standard Time,
richard.hea...@tiscali.co.uk writes:
http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-579-620-C
UP chanter all right, on the knee, but more like BP drones?
The artist doesn't show what the tune looked like though!
Printing does give a mirror image, so unless the artist flips it in his
head, that's what you get.
John
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Subject: [NSP] Re: Reel of Tullochgorum
Printing does give a mirror image, so unless the artist flips it in his
head, that's what you get.
John
Among old Cape Breton Scottish pipers there seems to have been no set
side on which to play the pipes and photos show both left and right
shouldered pipers. Some also played with hands reversed such as the late
Alex Currie who had started as a piper who played with the bag under teh
right arm
Interesting that his bellows are under his left arm, rather than his right.
Could he be left handed or is the print backwards, I wonder.
Honor H.
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