Hi all
Just to remind you that the Alnwick Northumbrian Gathering is coming up in a
couple of weeks' time on Friday 12th/Saturday 13th November.
There will be a (concert pitch) session on the Friday evening at Blackmore's
function room from 7.30 pm. On Saturday there are workshops for pipes,
Thanks to all those who responded to my queries on postage charges (which
should
only be a few dollars, not the $70 CDN I was told about) and on website
construction - I am still following up the many helpful leads on this.
Julia
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Julia,
why don't try to use "Tiki Wiki", the Content Management System running at:
http://www.northumbrianpipers.org.uk/NPS/tiki-custom_home.php ???
The CMS is already configured, waiting to be filled up with NSP (or any other)
contents (text, images, multimedia).
Open Source, no HTML or PHP to
Hi Folks:
Recently a friend of mine picked up some sets of pipes at an auction house --
an old Border set, an old keyless NSP in ivory, and another keyless set as
well. I bought the Border set and a friend of mine bought the ivory NSP. (I've
attached a photo of the Border set.)
One of them is
Here is the link to the ebay sale of the Grieve ivory NSP, plus any known
information on the set. Opinions welcome.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Antique-Northumbrian-Pipes-Bagpipes-/320606356124?pt=UK_Woodwind_Instruments&hash=item4aa5a0c29c
Cheers,
Jim
~McGillivray Piping~
www.piping.on.ca
www.pipe
On 25 Oct 2010, Jim McGillivray wrote:
> the name James Grieve
> Does anyone know anything about Jim Grieve's collection?
Not directly, but JIm Grieve was an NPS committee member in the 1950s, 60s and
again briefly in the 1980s. AFAIK, he died in the late 80s, although I can
check
his socie
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Jim McGillivray
<[1]jim...@piping.on.ca> wrote:
(I've attached a photo of the Border set.)
The list won't accept attachments
could be a reproduction from the late 1800s as two or three of the
large GHB firms were making reproductions of H
On 25 Oct 2010, Matt Seattle wrote:
> Robertson half-longs
>were made in the 1920s-30s. If Jim was a Boys Brigade piper they may
>well be Robertsons.
The piper who taught the early NPS half long players, and made the pipes, was
James
Robertson, not Hugh.
It may be the same firm, I
Jim Grieve was a civil servant who?travelled abroad alot He told me that his
job was setting up banks &?new currencies for former UK colonies as theybecame
independent. His regular absences abroad meant that he was an infrequent
visitor to NPS meetings but on his retirement became more involved
