[NSP] Re: First 30 tunes

2009-03-11 Thread Anthony Robb
...@aol.com rosspi...@aol.com Subject: [NSP] Re: First 30 tunes To: john_da...@hmco.com Cc: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Wednesday, 11 March, 2009, 1:12 PM Dear John, No, it would not do at all for me to play the tunes as I would be imprinting my own style, whatever

[NSP] Re: First 30 tunes

2009-03-11 Thread Julia . Say
On 11 Mar 2009, Gibbons, John wrote: The other approach, less apparently prescriptive, is getting different pipers to record a few tunes each - and stylistic variations in rhythm, gracing etc will be there - new pipers can choose who they want to try to sound like. Which is precisely what I

[NSP] Re: First 30 tunes

2009-03-11 Thread tim rolls BT
Hi Richard, Don't leave us hanging what did he choose to do? Tim - Original Message - From: Richard York rich...@lizards.force9.co.uk To: NSP group nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 6:10 PM Subject: [NSP] Re: First 30 tunes Some years ago I met

[NSP] Re: First 30 tunes

2009-03-11 Thread Richard York
: Hi Richard, Don't leave us hanging what did he choose to do? Tim - Original Message - From: Richard York rich...@lizards.force9.co.uk To: NSP group nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 6:10 PM Subject: [NSP] Re: First 30 tunes Some years ago I met a man who

[NSP] Re: First 30 tunes

2009-03-11 Thread anthony
to emphasise the differences in understanding and approach across a mere 40 miles of countryside! Regards Anthony --- On Wed, 11/3/09, rosspi...@aol.com rosspi...@aol.com wrote: From: rosspi...@aol.com rosspi...@aol.com Subject: [NSP] Re: First 30 tunes To: anth

[NSP] [NSP]Re: First 30 tunes

2009-03-10 Thread Alan Corkett
Hi Mike and List As someone who was trying to join in on accordion at Halsway during the Sunday evening playaround. I suppose I had a slight advantage over those who had never heard the tunes before, but it was a new experience to try and play them all in the key of F which has slightly

[NSP] Re: First 30 tunes

2009-03-10 Thread colin
- Original Message - From: Gibbons, John j.gibb...@imperial.ac.uk To: 'colin' cwh...@santa-fe.freeserve.co.uk; nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 4:41 PM Subject: [NSP] Re: First 30 tunes An abc pipers' tunebook should ideally - * Not be a copy of a printed source

[NSP] Re: First 30 tunes

2009-03-10 Thread Julia . Say
On 10 Mar 2009, rosspi...@aol.com wrote: I had no experience of using ABC copies of the tunes to generate audio copies but it seems to be a relatively straightforward way of getting the printed tunes out there to be heard. we have most of the other tunes that are in our publications in ABC

[NSP] Re: First 30 tunes

2009-03-10 Thread John_Dally
To j.gibb...@imperial.ac.uk cc nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject [NSP] Re: First 30 tunes Dear John, When I

[NSP] Re: First 30 tunes

2009-03-10 Thread Julia . Say
On 10 Mar 2009, john_da...@hmco.com wrote: One tune in particular, The Hesleyside Reel, ... Was it written for the pipes? Yes, it was. Question is, which ones. T J Elliott was apparently a fan of GVB Charlton family and his tunes were written at the time the Hesleyside family

[NSP] Re: First 30 tunes

2009-03-10 Thread Mike and Enid Walton
: rosspi...@aol.com said as we have most of the other tunes that are in our publications in ABC form it could be applied to all those tunes that beginners have difficulty in lifting off the page. As you say the main problem is in finding someone to do the job. Colin R If we do actually have

[NSP] Re: First 30 tunes

2009-03-10 Thread Gibbons, John
: 10 March 2009 23:06 To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Cc: Gibbons, John; rosspi...@aol.com Subject: Re: [NSP] Re: First 30 tunes : rosspi...@aol.com said as we have most of the other tunes that are in our publications in ABC form it could be applied to all those tunes that beginners have difficulty

[NSP] Re: first 30 tunes

2009-03-08 Thread colin
What a good idea. I must confess to liking CDs to hear what tunes sound like (being very poor at reading dots - fine on the actual notes but poor on phrasing, length etc - especially when new to the tune). I find that a Midi of a tune works well enough to give a rough idea what it sounds like