[NSP] Re: kipper box

2010-02-13 Thread simon
Just picked this up. I imagine that this is music for the hard of herring. Scales perhaps sea or sea shark . To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[NSP] Re: kipper box

2010-02-10 Thread tim rolls BT
struggling to find a kipper box, but plenty of cigar boxes here http://www.cigarboxnation.com/page/free-plans Tim - Original Message - From: "Francis Wood" To: "Dru Brooke-Taylor" Cc: "nsp" Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:16 PM Subject: [NSP] Re

[NSP] Re: kipper box

2010-02-10 Thread Francis Wood
On 10 Feb 2010, at 13:26, Dru Brooke-Taylor wrote: > I've a clear mental image of seeing somewhere, a photograph of an old street > musician playing what looked very like a strung kipper box. He was holding > it like a fiddle. Hello Dru and others, This does sound extremely likely. People ha

[NSP] Re: kipper box

2010-02-10 Thread Margaret Watchorn
I've a clear mental image of seeing somewhere, a photograph of an old street musician playing what looked very like a strung kipper box. He was holding it like a fiddle. I'm sure the staff at the Irish Traditional Music Archive would be able to help with this query, Dru. My a

[NSP] Re: kipper box

2010-02-10 Thread Dru Brooke-Taylor
I've a clear mental image of seeing somewhere, a photograph of an old street musician playing what looked very like a strung kipper box. He was holding it like a fiddle. I saw the photograph at least 25 years ago, and I'm fairly sure it dated from the 1950s at the latest. I think the musician

[NSP] Re: kipper box

2010-02-10 Thread Barry Say
Hi Chris, Is this anything to do with your vested interests (or lack of them). (See other thread) Barry christopher.bi...@ec.europa.eu wrote: Would someone care to admit to a close enough acquaintance with a female baroque violinist to safely enquire about her knicker elastic? I'm w

[NSP] Re: kipper box

2010-02-10 Thread Christopher.Birch
>Would someone care to admit to a close enough acquaintance >with a female baroque >violinist to safely enquire about her knicker elastic? I'm working on it ;-) c To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[NSP] Re: kipper box

2010-02-09 Thread Julia Say
On 9 Feb 2010, Francis Wood wrote: > I'm following this correspondance about baroque violinists and their lowered > knicker > elastic tension with some puzzlement. Maybe further resarch is needed. Would someone care to admit to a close enough acquaintance with a female baroque violinist to

[NSP] Re: kipper box

2010-02-09 Thread Paul Gretton
--Original Message- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Gibbons, John Sent: 09 February 2010 16:10 To: NSP group; 'Paul Gretton' Subject: [NSP] Re: kipper box Will Paul be able to inform us, (next June, if not before), of the tension in

[NSP] Re: kipper box

2010-02-09 Thread Francis Wood
On 9 Feb 2010, at 15:02, tim rolls BT wrote: > I'm confused, how did we get to knickers from kippers? Well, it was actually the other way about. But I can help - see further below. > What I'd like to know is, what is the correspondence about, the lowering of > the tension in the elastic of the

[NSP] Re: kipper box

2010-02-09 Thread Gibbons, John
ancis Wood Cc: marga...@watchorn7.plus.com; NSP group Subject: [NSP] Re: kipper box I'm confused, how did we get to knickers from kippers? No, on second thoughts don't answer that. What I'd like to know is, what is the correspondence about, the lowering of the tension in the ela

[NSP] Re: kipper box

2010-02-09 Thread Francis Wood
On 9 Feb 2010, at 12:24, tim rolls BT wrote: > The kipper box is a new one on me, and I think must be very local to = Craster. I've never seen one at a session, even at Low Newton just up = the coast, but maybe I go to the wrong sort of gig. It brings forth a = vision of some sort of coastal folk

[NSP] Re: kipper box

2010-02-09 Thread tim rolls BT
- Original Message - From: "Julia Say" To: "tim rolls BT" ; "Francis Wood" Cc: ; "NSP group" Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 1:26 PM Subject: Re: [NSP] Re: kipper box On 9 Feb 2010, Francis Wood wrote: I'm following this correspondance

[NSP] Re: kipper box

2010-02-09 Thread Francis Wood
On 9 Feb 2010, at 13:26, si...@leveau8.fsnet.co.uk wrote: > Would baroque knickers be an air on a g string Oh this is lowering the tone! To somewhere around F#, I suppose. Francis To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[NSP] Re: kipper box

2010-02-09 Thread Julia Say
On 9 Feb 2010, Francis Wood wrote: > I'm following this correspondance about baroque violinists and their lowered > knicker > elastic tension with some puzzlement. Maybe further resarch is needed. Would someone care to admit to a close enough acquaintance with a female baroque violinist to

[NSP] Re: kipper box

2010-02-09 Thread Francis Wood
On 9 Feb 2010, at 12:24, tim rolls BT wrote: > The kipper box is a new one on me, and I think must be very local to Craster. > I've never seen one at a session, even at Low Newton just up the coast, but > maybe I go to the wrong sort of gig. It brings forth a vision of some sort of > coastal f