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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>>I've just had an enquiry for these from a newish nsp player, so I'm
hoping someone out there could send me abc / >>jpg / whatever in nsp key so
it's less work to pass it on.
>>Thanx
>>Julia
Why not do a Nancy Reagan and "Just Say NO!&
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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, but still) If there are specialists in Amsterdam and
Cologne, I would be sure that there will be at least one in Seattle.
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Hilarious John! Have you thought of doing stand-up? ;-)
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Subject: [NSP] Re: G Set
Klaus,
There is an alternative, and much cheaper
rent to playing a tone up on the NSP. And if a recorder 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.
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other musicians at concert pitch, not just slow or simple tunes.
I was not talking about transposing as such or playing in different keys.
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stigate...
These semantics would seem to fit with the activity of hunting dogs in
general, not just decoy dogs.
Paul Gretton (ex-lexicographer)
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Subject: [NSP
easy to get to from
Alkmaar.
Paul Gretton
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Subject: [NSP] Pipers in the Netherlands ?
Evening all - I've had an e
s that all the sources stress
the need for a wide VARIETY 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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meself persunelly, I like the traditional look of the "Birkenstock
Band" on the cover of the October 2003 NPS Newsletter. ;-)
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a guess - languages are my
business, but admittedly not northeast dialects. ;-) )
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NSP because I was enraptured by the sound on hearing a Billy Pigg
recording when I was about 20. How on earth does my playing the NSP
(and the big bad Highland pipes too) represent my "identity"?
Just wondering.
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have done for 36 years - but I don't see how choosing to play a
particular instrument would reconnect me to my youth (assuming that
that would be a "good thing").
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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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articulate 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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P
orma-as-a-football-anthem crap.
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This tells you it all you need to know. ;-)
[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhHAojVyeG0
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that other one.
There was no Amazing Grace at the Cenotaph this morning and I think you
may agree that the somber ceremony of commemoration was still pretty
effective.
And don't play effin' Highland Cathedral either!!!!
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Cattivo, Mr Dally!
Paul
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Cc: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [NSP] Re: Music for funeral
I have the dots for Amazing Grace (with twelve part harmony) if anyone
wants
You are lucky! Make sure you keep it that way. Don't go Googling for an
audio file out of curiosity, for example.
Cheers, Paul
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Sent: 11 November 2008 19:55
To: Paul Gretton
Subject: Re: [NSP] Music for fu
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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From: colin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 12 November 200
'fraid not, Colin. You'll just have to live with it. Big fan of The
Carpenters too, are you?
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
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Subject: [NSP] Re: Music for funeral
Alas, I'm finding my
similarly
dominant and excluding role in the Northumbrian repertoire too.
* I'm not up on the situation in Canada.
Cheers,
Paul
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Dear Paul Gret
/articles/mi_hb6657/is_/ai_n29072831
http://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Performing-Pitch-Bruce-Haynes/dp/0810841851/
ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226584158&sr=8-5
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pipes
without wearing at least three pairs of rubber gloves. Natural latex only,
of course!
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Subject: [NSP] Oil and health
Hello all.
I'm wary of opening a de
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>>Has anyone any thoughts of what prizes of 3, 5 and 10 gn (£3.05, £5.25
>>and £10.50) represented in real terms in 1878?
http://www.measuringworth.com/ppoweruk/?redirurl=calculators/ppoweruk/
C
Matt wrote:
>>>For the Rant rhythm, how about
>>>Nuts-and-Rais-ins
>>>where the heavier stress is on -Rais-
So - just to formalise (confuse?) matters -- two trochees (i.e. a
ditrochee), with the second ictus being stronger than the first?
ot; are bold in the original text, but I doubt if that will
be reproduced here.]
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A wun, two, a wun, two, three, four...
Dies irae! dies illa
Solvet saeclum in favilla
Teste David cum Sibylla!
Quantus tremor est futurus,
quando judex est venturus,
cuncta stricte discussurus!
YEE-HAW!!
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ite of trochhee and more iambic
>>with two extra strong beats following the iambic te-tum. i.e.
te->>tum,tum,tum.
Err... Matt's illustration ("Nuts and raisins") is definitely two trochees.
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the dance albeit a bit >>faster than in a regular rant
Err... yes, exactly. I think that makes things perfectly clear. We can
probably drop this topic now.
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cate a heavy and a light stress.
For example:
˘ / ˘ / ˘ /
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
ical
point of view!!!) That was SERIOUSLY disorientating - and his desk
partner feared for her eyes!
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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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t arm."
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
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From: Barry Say [mailto:barr...@nspipes.co.uk]
Sent: 14 January 2009 17:39
To: Nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [NSP] Oops typos
For
Reel of Tullochgoram Thomas Wilson's
read
Reel of Tullochgoram in Thomas Wilson's
For unch re
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 [mailto:christopher.bi...@ec.e
>>>-Original Message-
>>>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**
Malcolm's spelling errors seem to put him in good company, Colin, don't you
think? ;-)
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
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Sent: 06 March 2009 11:42
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [NSP] malcom's final solution
I
Wot's them when them's out, Colon?
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Subject: Re: [NSP] Re: malcom's final solution
At least mine were typing omissions.
CR
cDonald's approach to piobaireachd. But we are not likely to want to
hear the Blue Danube 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.
Paul Gr
All you have to do is stop referring to the 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.
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
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To: helen.ca...@paradise.net.nz; p
your message to mean that "Lisa Ridley" posted her comments from your
computer. Surely I'm wrong?
Cheers,
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From: Chris Ormston [mailto:ch...@chrisormston.com]
Sent: 14 April 2009 01:18
To: 'Anthony Robb'; 'Rick Damon';
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 o
EXACTLY!!!
Cheers,
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 cl
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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Sent: 14
in baroque style. Perlman, however, would probalby tackle a Handel or
Corelli sonata, with IMHO dire results that distort 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 Ki
eadmaster with a degree in a hard science? Or
would you prefer us to believe that you are an illiterate sheep-xxx from
up a hillside somewhere north of Wooler??
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
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From: Anthony Robb [mailto:anth...@robbpipes.com]
Sent: 14 April 2009 21:44
To: nsp@
that enables you to avoid any kind of disputing of your arguments.
It is far too reminiscent of the standard GHB reply "So how fast is
your crunluath then?" or "How many gold medals have YOU won?"
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
_
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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From: Anita Evans [mailto:an...@evansweb.co.uk]
Sent: 15
nerally seen nowadays as a kind of New Age
instrument to be played with lots of swirly reverb.
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>> Very interesting. It would seem that some authorities are more
>> authoritative than others.
>> Oink, oink.
>> Chirs
--
>>>Oink, oink
So you're aligning yourself with those that are MORE authoritative, then?
;-)
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
mputer. I
wonder why 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
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.
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
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From: lute
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
all
piping recordings, the purpose of which is to bash the listener into
submission, with the expressed emotion being "I'll bet YOU can't play this
fast, you wimp!!!"
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d and the printed result 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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,
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Of Julia Say
Sent: 27 August 2009 14:58
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu; Alec
Subject: [NSP] Re: Shaw G-set Scam
On 27 Aug 2009, Alec wrote:
> any interaction you have had with Da
Richard,
Thank you for confirming that I am not the only one whose perception of NSP
players is of a bunch of Guardian readers.
;-)
Cheers,
Paul Gretton (NRC-Handelsblad/Volkskrant/NYT reader)
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From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On
dwind repairers can fix keys by means of
microwelding. That might also be a possibility.
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
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Behalf Of Ian Lawther
Sent: 19 October 2009 03:52
To: nsp
Su
, a shawm or a bass
recorder.
YM2C.
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Paul Gretton
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Of Anthony Robb
Sent: 19 October 2009 12:33
To: Dartmouth NPS
Subject: [NSP] Synthetic keypads
Quick chemistry lesson. The acidic
ust the sort of
thing that puts people off the Society.
It's OK to be a curmudgeon, but you are starting to sound rather sad.
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
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Of rosspi...@aol.com
Sent: 19 October
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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Surprisingly, even after 30 years of living in Holland and mentioning that
I'm a piper, I've only ever once had anybody produce the relevant pun!
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Of chri
people could read music - witness the great 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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/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.) :-)
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
From: An
This is fascinating stuff. Thanks, Margaret.
BTW, could the William Darling whom you mention possibly be Grace Darling's
dad? The date you give could fit.
Cheers, Paul Gretton
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Of Mar
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 10:4
>>>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 b
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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Paul Gretton
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From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On B
. (It seems btw that the Persian equivalent of the Academie
Franc,aise would in any case prefer us to use "Persian".)
Cheers,
Nasty (and pedantic) Paul
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From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Beh
:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf
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
revo
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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
Brilliant!
Cheers, Paul
___
From: Matt Seattle [mailto:theborderpi...@googlemail.com]
Sent: 05 February 2010 19:29
To: Paul Gretton
Cc: christopher.bi...@ec.europa.eu; nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re
___
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 b
nt to know if it makes you sick!!
You clearly don't, and I'm sure masses of forumees will instantly agree
with you, as they slip another Maureen Hegarty CD into the player. But
as Tim Berners-Lee was pointing out on the Beeb only this week, his
brainchild has had the effect
test
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Topical today (well sort of):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcMA4Bz1SHI
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>This is their right, just as some people love Wagner's Operas and I
>>don't, 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
Not too sure about that. But the disaster with the thread of fate woven by
the three Norns at the beginning of Götterdämmerung should be sufficient
warning to anyone attempting to screw their strings up to higher than
concert pitch!
"Es riß! Es riß! Es riß!"
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ing can take the form of a couple of cheap
cushions.
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The trouble 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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e 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
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
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Sent: 08 June 2010 17:13
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
t. Anyone else seen it? It's the sort of
film that will almost certainly have been on Channel 4. Lovely film!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombon_%28film%29
Cheers, Paul Gretton
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Of cal...
This might just explain why the Dutch for the "silly season" is ...errm...
"cucumber time" (komkommertijd). ;-)
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
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Of Francis Wood
Sent: 12 August 20
ufay, Ockeghem and Josquin.
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
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Of Matt Seattle
Sent: 02 November 2010 10:58
To: Gibbons, John
Cc: Richard York; NSP group
Subject: [NSP] Re: Tune hunt: OT but I hope interestin
come about because of writers' and performers' observation of
them.
You might also substitute "organ" for "harpsichord" (although both
instruments can change their registration, which in a sense is changing the
dynamics, i.e. "terraced dynamics").
Cheers,
Quite a bit of info at
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/GEO_GH.htm
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Paul Gretton
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s to force people to "listen to the f***in' bass line!" Since
all the upper parts are essentially overtones of the bass, staying in tune
with the bass is the only way to be in tune. It helps massively if there is
a fixed-pitch keyboard instrument underlying the ensemble
The Story of 'A'
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Performing-Pitch-Story/dp/0810841851/ref=sr
_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297093102&sr=1-3)
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e" - alternative middle sections of slightly 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.
Cheers,
Paul Gr
's chanter 'cos he's the one wot sounds the best".
I would assume that the Reids worked to a chosen pitch standard in the same
way as did Silbermann or - more relevant here - the Hotteterre gang.
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
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The link via the Union Flag button doesn't work but the "translation"
follows the French. It's hilarious!
Cheers, Paul Gretton
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Of Richard York
Sent: 29 May 2011 10:30
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