Hello Tim
If you (or anyone else is interested) I have a recording of the closing
set at a Rothbury Festival Sunday afternoon session. It is an enjoyable
set, 15+ mins of spontaneous music making, quite lively and some good
rants in amongst!
Recorded on cassette, so not brilliant
4 -0700
From: anth...@robbpipes.com
Subject: Re: [NSP] Re: Moving away from the First 30 tunes
To: tim.ro...@btconnect.com; nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu;
ch...@chrisormston.com
Hi Chris
Gave a rather flippant reply to an important question earlier. Before
answering it can I just poi
t I'm reasonably good at!
Anthony
--- On Fri, 13/3/09, Chris Ormston wrote:
From: Chris Ormston
Subject: [NSP] Re: Moving away from the First 30 tunes
To: "'Anthony Robb'" ,
tim.ro...@btconnect.com, "'NSP List'"
Date: F
Touche!
Stiff fingers now but I still do'em for private amusement!
Anthony
--- On Fri, 13/3/09, Chris Ormston wrote:
From: Chris Ormston
Subject: [NSP] Re: Moving away from the First 30 tunes
To: "'Anthony Robb'" ,
tim.ro...@
: 12 March 2009 13:34
To: tim.ro...@btconnect.com; NSP List; Chris Ormston
Subject: Re: [NSP] Re: Moving away from the First 30 tunes
Hello Chris and all,
Talking sense as usual bonny lad. You are absolutely right in that the
tree trunk of the piping tradition is as you describe i
rpeth Rant to John Daggs' Tillside Trio. It
was as far removed from Scottish dance or music as any proud
Northumbrian could wish
As aye
Anthony
From: Chris Ormston
Subject: [NSP] Re: Moving away from the First 30 tunes
To: tim.ro...@btconnect.com,
Hello Tim
No one with respect and love of the Tradition would want to see it
apreserved in aspica. Will Atkinson and Will Taylor would kindly record
tunes into my basic apiano keya cassette recorder for me to learn (long
before the days when I attempted to learn about the dots) an
Hi All,
I agree with Anthony on the importance of recognising regional styles,
and that dance and music go hand in hand. I think it's important to
remember, though, that the North Northumberland style is much more to
do with Scottish country dance music, and was heavily influenced b