Forum: Beer Tent
12-13-2020, 05:08 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 4,428
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Forum: Technique & Instrument
11-29-2020, 05:50 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,340
Re: Unknown Chanter Reeds
Take a tiny container or bottle, fill it with water, shake it out, put the reed in it, seal the cap, and a day later, voila.
Works for me.
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Forum: Technique & Instrument
10-25-2020, 07:56 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 1,602
Re: Why are some better than others ?
I think environment has a lot more to do with it than many might think. Talent, yes, can't do without that. Practice, yes, but who that wants to be good doesn't practice?
What you experience as...
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Forum: Beer Tent
08-20-2020, 10:08 AM
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Replies: 40
Views: 4,274
Re: Constructive Criticism for Pipers
You didn't John, not at all.
And your recounting of bad experiences is relevant; we are not yet out of the woods yet as regards people who care not a jot about practices such as you have...
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Forum: Beer Tent
08-18-2020, 09:07 AM
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Replies: 40
Views: 4,274
Re: Constructive Criticism for Pipers
Well said Jim, I agree and try to follow all of what you outlined, as well as keeping reminding myself many times during a competition that my job is principally to determine who played the best, 2nd...
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Forum: Teacher's Lounge
08-05-2020, 10:48 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 3,892
Re: Better teaching methods?
I think the two most important things in all the years I've been at this is to teach the student to read music properly right from the very beginning and never to tell anyone that anything is hard or...
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Forum: Music
07-20-2020, 02:42 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 2,923
Re: "Wrongly" arranged and misprinted tunes
I think we're very lucky to have had composers like Pipe Major Donald MacLeod, Pipe Major George S MacLennan, Pipe Major John MacLellan, Dunoon, Archie MacNeill, and many, many more. The music they...
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Forum: Music
07-18-2020, 03:01 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 2,923
Re: "Wrongly" arranged and misprinted tunes
The point of it is I think that it's just a very interesting discussion. I must admit that when I play John MacDonald of Glencoe these days I play B/C the first time and C/C the second time. Why...
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Forum: Music
07-17-2020, 11:00 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 2,923
Re: "Wrongly" arranged and misprinted tunes
I'm finding this a very interesting thread. Personally, I'm not against altering tunes, after all we are a folk instrument and especially when it pertains to the folk music we play, but I do think it...
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Forum: Music
07-16-2020, 11:50 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 2,923
Re: "Wrongly" arranged and misprinted tunes
It all leads to a very interesting discussion.
We live of course in the age of the internet now, and that has contributed massively to all sorts of odd and bogus "settings" of tunes, because...
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Forum: Teacher's Lounge
07-04-2020, 03:30 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,309
Re: An experiment in notation
I think it's excellent. If only there were additionally a way to indicate what way a gracenote was made (ie) it is either made by lifting one single finger as in a simple G gracenote, or say a simple...
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Forum: Technique & Instrument
07-01-2020, 04:43 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 2,529
Re: Kilgour Edinburgh pipes
I'm not entirely sure, but as I recollect the name "Kilgour of Strathspey" was adopted after George came back from New York, and set up in Montrose Terrace in Edinburgh. Before going to the US he had...
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Forum: Beer Tent
06-24-2020, 03:20 PM
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Replies: 32
Views: 2,566
Re: Proper head gear?
I have to admit, I just don't get this whole piping thing about hats. If your head needs protecting from the elements, wear a hat. If it doesn't don't!
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Forum: Piobaireachd
06-23-2020, 09:47 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,799
Re: Piobaireachd Videos
Good news, El Gaitero! Fair Honey is now up on my Youtube channel as per your request, along with The Lament for Mary MacLeod and The Battle of the Pass of Crieff, since I last reported.
I...
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Forum: Piobaireachd
06-17-2020, 01:45 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,799
Re: Piobaireachd Videos
I'll have another go at it! I learned it once a long time ago but never played it to an audience. I believe there's a very good alternative setting in Binneas Is Boreraig.
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Forum: Piobaireachd
06-17-2020, 10:27 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,799
Re: Piobaireachd Videos
Since my last post a couple of weeks ago I've managed to record a further ten tunes; MacCrimmon's Sweetheart, The Groat, The Earl of Seaforth's Salute, Tulloch Ard, MacNeill of Barra's March, The...
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Forum: Piobaireachd
06-05-2020, 10:17 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,799
Re: Piobaireachd Videos
I have managed to get another five tunes up on my You Tube channel, namely Struan Robertson's Salute, The Old Woman's Lullaby, The King's Taxes, Squinting Patrick's Flame of Wrath, and the Blind...
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Forum: Piobaireachd
05-27-2020, 04:53 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,799
Re: Piobaireachd Videos
Thanks for the kind remarks on these tunes. I've added a couple more recently, Too Long in This Condition, and The Blue Ribbon.They can be found here. Please subscribe if you like and I hope you...
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Forum: Piobaireachd
05-21-2020, 01:20 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,799
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Forum: Piobaireachd
05-20-2020, 09:29 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,799
Piobaireachd Videos
Lately I've had a bit more time om my hands than I'd like and so I've recorded some piobaireachds start to finish on the pipes and posted them on my YouTube channel.
The tunes which I have...
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Forum: Beer Tent
05-14-2020, 05:10 AM
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Replies: 70
Views: 7,798
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Forum: Music
04-28-2020, 02:46 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,397
Re: 10 part reels
I believe I heard John Burgess play it once.
I have a soundfile of those 9th and 10th parts, so if anyone wants to hear it, just send me an e mail address and I will forward it.
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Forum: Music
04-27-2020, 08:08 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,397
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Forum: Beer Tent
04-23-2020, 02:34 AM
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Replies: 52
Views: 6,284
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Forum: Beer Tent
04-07-2020, 08:03 AM
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Replies: 58
Views: 7,557
Re: Best sounding bagpipes you’ve heard?
I went and took a look at it just now Adam, it's still in a cigar tube where it was put by my father after he was done with it. He played it for 12 years up until 1981; then I played it for 11 years...
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