From: owner-bagpipe-digest@lists.xmission.com (bagpipe-digest) To: bagpipe-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: bagpipe-digest V1 #30 Reply-To: bagpipe-digest Sender: owner-bagpipe-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-bagpipe-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk bagpipe-digest Tuesday, August 31 1999 Volume 01 : Number 030 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 20:09:24 GMT From: JOHN MITCHELL Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Ross Zipper Bag Chris Hamilton wrote: > I think St. Laurence O'Toole has a used one for sale ... I think a few vice grips would look nice. The poor boy must have been so nervous, he blew the clamp right off! I think the judge must have written: Good tone, tight execution, but clamps could be more closed! ;) John Mitchell Clamping down on humour! - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: 17 Aug 1999 22:27:39 GMT From: madpiper16@aol.com (MAdPiPeR16) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: drone cord color? Bryan Little blittl@erols.com wrote: >This has to do with simple aesthetics, but I need some input. > >I'm getting a royal blue velveteen bag with black fringes made for my >pipes. >But my limited imagination makes it difficult to decide what color drone >cords to use. > >Should cords complement the bag, the fringes, both, or contrast? > >I know it's "my choice", but I would like to select a color combo that >doesn't make me look completely >colorblind. Helpful advice..........? You should definetly use black cords so it brings out the black fringes. If you choose blue cords then the black fringes would look out of place. Just MHO. ~MAdPiPeR~ - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 14:19:48 -0400 From: madman Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Drone cords: Silk or polyester? Theodore Le boeuf wrote: > > madman wrote: > > > > Iain Sherwood wrote: > > > > > > as a bagpipe dealer, I KNOW that the cords are ALL made in Pakistan; some > > > are silk, and some are rayon...as far as quality is concerned, remember that > > > ALL pipe banners and regimental colours for the British Army are made in > > > Pakistan, where they do the finest gold and silver bullion embroidery in the > > > world - using child labour, > > > > Here is is again,, > > Nottingahm Braid Company,Derby,England. > > Would you like the phone number? > > Thats just fine if you want to tell all your customers that bull, > > but some of us actually KNOW that ALL cords do not come from Pakistan. > > IT would be more accurate for you to say"I KNOW that ALL of my add-ons, > > come from Pakistan". > Im not intrested in the number. But how much do you pay for these drone > cords? > mike The cost of the cords,plus shipping. - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 02:02:48 +0100 From: "Steve White" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Smallpipes with ceilidh band - make/volume/key? Interesting to hear all of this. The problem we have is in getting the volume out of the PA. The pipes are so quiet that even with a powerful PA we can't get as much volume as we'd like without feedback. We are using a Sure SM58 through a 8 track mixer, with 3 band EQ, into 2 x 400 watt RMS amp and through 2 Peavy HiSys speakers (about 800 watts each I think.) The band is comprised - small pipes, acoustic guitar, electric bass, electric fiddle, acoustic mandolin (also a problem!), and bohran - all of which go through the PA. Anyone got any suggestions on techniques for micing / EQing / cutting feedback. They would be very much appreciated. Cheers, Steve White - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 20:22:54 -0400 From: Alan C Subject: (bagpipe) Re: AC/DC Tune Don't know about that specific occasion, but the only AC/DC tune in which I've heard pipes is "It's a Long Way to the Top (If you Wanna Rock and Roll)" from the album High Voltage. Peace, Alan C. FrankL wrote: > can anyone tell me the name of the AC/DC tune Gordon Duncan > played at the Queen's Hall concert in Dunoon? > > thanks in advance > > frank - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 11:04:44 -0800 From: Michael New & Diane Rossmiller Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Drone cords: Silk or polyester? > Im not going their just to get proof. That would be $1800 for nothing. > I am talking Uilleann Pipes and Pastoral pipes over to pakistan to be > coppied. I'm sure the original makers of the pipes you're taking to Pakistan to have cheap rip-off copies made of would be delighted to know of your plans. Meanwhile, people who want a decent instrument will know better. You get what you pay for in this world - pipes are no different. I don't think you're liable to convince most of the folks on this newsgroup otherwise. Might as well save your breath for the poor punters who don't know any better. Michael - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: 19 Aug 1999 00:03:16 GMT From: "Matthew Wood" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Ross Zipper Bag As a dealer for the Ross bags and also a player I feel for anyone that has the clamp "blow off." It happened to me in the middle of a Competition. What a crappy feeling. The zipper bag will be a welcome addition to my pipe case. I have the zipper bags on order. To add to Jim's post, the blue material was being used on the clamp style bag in my last delivery, so Ross must, be using it for all the bags. The main reason the Ross bags, sealed and canister styles have more "body" is the rubber grommets used at each stock. These grommets give the bag a lot of stability the canmore have been missing. Matt McCoill Associates, Pipe Band Supply NJ, USA aberdeen wrote in article <7pffvt$p77$1@nnrp1.deja.com>... > In article <37BB3CF2.B17CA5B7@hotmail.com>, > JOHN MITCHELL wrote: > > > > > > Chris Hamilton wrote: > > > > > I think St. Laurence O'Toole has a used one for sale ... > > > > I think a few vice grips would look nice. > > > > The poor boy must have been so nervous, he blew the clamp right off! > > > > I think the judge must have written: > > Good tone, tight execution, but clamps could be more closed! ;) > > > > John Mitchell > > Clamping down on humour! > > > > Ah, come on you guys! Zip it up! > > Jim > -- > Jim Hudgins > Aberdeen Bagpipe Supply > > > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > Share what you know. Learn what you don't. > - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: 13 Aug 1999 23:36:28 -0500 From: "Maeve" Subject: (bagpipe) Revised @pin up now. Just a quick note to let you all know that a new, revised edition picture is up on my web site. It is by no means finished but closer. And I want to take a moment to thank the couple of kind gentlemen who are giving me a hand with this. I don't know if they want acknowledgment for this but I feel it necessary to tell them myself how much I appreciate them! THANKS! Life is good and you are making it easier for me! Now if we can just get The Boss to make up his mind . .. . :) :) The new pin can be seen at: http://people.delphi.com/terralyn/pin2.jpg - -- Love and Light be with you, Maeve http://people.delphi.com/terralyn terride@sanctum.com - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: 11 Aug 1999 01:42:27 GMT From: zudupiper@aol.com (Zudupiper) Subject: (bagpipe) Internet Clan Crest Badge..for real We're working on a design for an Internet Cap Badge. Thanks to Maeve, her creative abilities, and her connections to the jewelry industry, it looks like we can have sterling silver cap badges made for $20-$30 apiece. We have a preliminary design, but it's just that...preliminary. We'd like to open the floor for suggestions and designs, also for mottoes (faux Latin, pseudo Gaelic, maybe with an English translation). Right now the preliminary design is a modified @ symbol. Bagpipe drones come out of the "a" part of the @ and extend past the circular outline. Of course, flames are emanating from the drone tops... For now, the mottoes are "Modem lincsit" and "Don't thread on me". It looks like this can become a reality. I'm posting this to see how much interest there is in purchasing a crest badge, and also to look for design suggestions. This would be like the T-shirts, where you would send the $ up front and we would ship you the badges when they're done. Post the design suggestions to the NG, and if you're interested in buying the end product, email me privately. Zu - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: 12 Aug 1999 01:39:02 GMT From: jsloanpr@aol.com (JSLOANPR) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Reaming chanters Maddog will ream more than chanters! > I'm trying to find Kron's e-mail to find out about their chanter >reaming services. Any help? >Cheerios! > - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 09:09:53 -0400 From: "ddave" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Top 10 Hints for Improving Look at all these suggestions. Dime a dozen. Keep giving me the boot!! Way to go! Good ones too!!! Cheers. Tad Myers wrote in message <37AFD03F.2AE58FD1@black-hole.com>... > > >bruce@ais.com wrote: > >> College of Piping, Book 2, Page 61. Note that Book 1 and Book 3 are >> just about _tunes_ - Book 2 is about playing the pipes themselves. >> -snip- > >Oh yes...Bruce comes through in the clinch. Take that Dave...:o) > >Tad Myers > - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 19:20:57 +0100 From: "lsrapm" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: question Re: Military band Horsehair sporrans?... Adidas5136 wrote > Hello, > I have recently got a band issued military band horsehair sporran. It was > in the storage closet for quite some time so it has large waves and bends in > the hair. How do I straighten out the hair so it is as it should be? please > reply A.S.A.P Thanks alot. > S A M (Adidas5136@aol.com) Shampoo it in hand-hot water without letting the water soak the backing. Only wash the hair itself. Then comb it out gently with a hair brush or even sit down for half-an-hour and gently pull all the tangled strands apart by hand. It takes a lot of patience but it's worth it. Then always store it hanging up. Chris Eyre - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 19:52:09 GMT From: ToneCzar@erols.com (Chris Hamilton) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Ross Zipper Bag On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 18:53:53 GMT, aberdeen wrote: >I forgot to mention in my earlier posting that the Zipper Bag is NOT a >replacement, but an addition to the Ross line. The older style bag with >the clamp in the back will still be offered. I think St. Laurence O'Toole has a used one for sale ... Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chris Hamilton -- ToneCzar@erols.com City of Washington Pipe Band http://www.serve.com/cowpb/chamilton.html - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:21:50 +0100 From: "André Mittun" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Pin4.jpg . . . sorry! COOL.......GREAT...... This one is realy awesome, I like it a lot. LOL André *************************************************** André Mittun, Andre_Mittun@vip.cybercity.dk The Heather Pipes & Drums of Copenhagen http://www.heather.dk Maeve wrote in message <01bee8af$f9cdfda0$6e46a5ce@sanctum.com.sanctum.com>... >You asked for it and I just couldn't help myself! I apologize ahead of >time. > >http://people.delphi.com/terralyn/pin4.jpg >-- >Love and Light be with you, >Maeve . .. with too much time on her hands >http://people.delphi.com/terralyn >terride@sanctum.com - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 21:39:35 +0100 From: "lsrapm" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Revised @pin up now. lsrapm I downloaded your first drawing a few days ago, but I've tried several times > to download this update. All I get is "wrong address". Is there a problem? > > Chris Eyre > Forget I spoke.... I just downloaded version 3, no problem. It's getting better.... The only bit I think is weak is the motto "Don't thread on me" Just my idea... Chris Eyre - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 15:35:00 -0400 From: Bob Cameron Subject: (bagpipe) Re: questions about smallpipes Actually any of the Whistlebinkies albums would be a good bet. Rab Wallace plays both Scottish Smallpipes and Border pipes on the albums. Grdon Mooney also has an album out with his wife Barbara,"One for The Birds" Proceeds go to bird sanctuaries in the UK. Not strictly a piping album, though. Chris Thomas wrote: > What about Anna Murray's (Mhoireach) two CD's (out of hte blud/into indigo). Since > I've nothing to compare them to (as far as smallpipes go) I was wondering what your > thoughts were. (they're two of my favorite cd's). > > Iain Cameron wrote: > > > > > > > You should listen to Hamish Moore's two vinyl recordings on Dunkeld > > records: - > > Cauld Wind Pipes DUN 003 > > Open Ended DUN005 > > > > or the following CDs: - > > > > Gordon Mooney - O'er the Border - Temple COMD 2031 > > Rab Wallace - Breakout - Lismor LCOM 5253 > > Hamish Moore - Stepping on the Bridge - Greentrax CDTRAX 073 > > > > Iain Cameron - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 23:03:30 -0400 From: "Blair Piper" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Top 5 Hints Royce Lerwick wrote in message <37af8741.11071697@news.mn.mediaone.net>... >In order to play fast you have to play faster than you are capable of >playing accurately. If you never play faster than you can play >accurately, you will never play fast. Speed, and accuracy. The two are >constant regulators and when you concentrate on one the other suffers, >but ultimately they both come up separately but arrive together with >accurate speed. That does it for me. If Ron, John and Royce can agree then I'm convinced, and that's the way I'm going. I'm also convinced that you can play a tune into the ground and simply stop improving at it or getting any faster at it. You need to move on to new material to improve. Thanks to Ron for the original posting in the thread. There's a lot of info there that at least I need to be reminded of from time to time. ....Blair - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:29:11 GMT From: ToneCzar@erols.com (Chris Hamilton) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: bagpipes at Weddings On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:51:08 -0400 (EDT), RIpiper@webtv.net wrote: >Im assuming that STB is Scotland the Brave....Thats what My entire >wedding party including myself and my parents walked down the isle >to...My teacher/pm played it...Slowed it down a little....It was >great...Amazing grace would be a bad tune to play... My wedding next year ... Highland Cathedral (request of the lovely bride herself) When the Pipers Play (ditto) Top Deck In Perth (request of the lovely groom) At my very first wedding gig (my sister, 1974) I think I played Morag of Dunvegan. Probably unrecognizable, and certainly on a hideous choking and untuned bagpipe ... Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chris Hamilton -- ToneCzar@erols.com City of Washington Pipe Band http://www.serve.com/cowpb/chamilton.html - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 04:52:22 GMT From: Bill Carr Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Quality cane chanter + Drone reeds Interesting site. They sell NEW Lawrie bagpipes and Roberton practice chanters too. www.highlandhouse.com.au Bill Carr Bar-Tech wrote: > To all those people that responded trying to find an email address and web > page for Highland House Brisbane Australia. Here it is > > mail@highlandhouse.com.au > > Web page www.highlandhouse.com.au > > The reeds are made on the premises by Sandy Campbell. - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:07:59 +0100 From: "lsrapm" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: memorizing tunes Mike Collins wrote Memorizing: Playing from the subconscious mind is definitely a fact. If you walk onto the field thinking about every note that your playing you are going to be tripping over your own feet. Your mind/body is doing so many things when your playing the pipes you rely heavily on the subconscious mind to assist. When competing, you have played the sets or medleys so many times it is automatic, it's when you have to think about what your playing that you screw up. Just let the fingers do the playing! This has been a very interesting conversation to follow. A friend once told me that you know you really know a tune when you get distracted in the middle of it and your fingers just go on playing it anyway. I'm thinking just now of one very memorable occasion playing with the band at the English Championships at Birmingham when the temperature was in the high 90's. (Over here, that is really hot for us). All I could think about during the selection was keeping my knees straight. But I didn't go off the tune. I remember thinking all the way through it "Just play it the way you know it" and it worked. Chris Eyre - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 10:12:43 -0400 From: madman Subject: (bagpipe) Re: HEMP Royce Lerwick wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:26:49 -0400, madman wrote: > > >Iain Sherwood wrote: > >> > >> yes cork works well for other instruments. The problem is that most > >> instruments spend more time disassembled in their cases than assembled and > >> playing. For pipes this means that the cork on the joints is constantly > >> compressed. This results in the loss of elasticity, and the cork joint is > >> compromised. > >Wrong....just light a match underneath the cork(gently)and the cork > >springs back tto life...every oboist/clarinetist/bassoonist on the > >planet knows this little trick. > >FWIW ...I corked JGS's pipes...it is a huge pain in the ass,but it does > >last > >at least 5-7 years. > > But you have to pull the heat trick monthly or more often is your > really ever play much and in the end it's just a different sort of > farting around. > > Royce Maybe once a year.. In this particular case..John is a full-time bagpipe teacher,with 30-40 students at any given time,and a grade 2 piper(who should be at least in grade one by now,or in the open grade,but he is a lazy SOB), my point being that if his corked-pipes are lasting at least 5 years, then most others will last a lot longer. (this means you Royce) - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: 30 Aug 1999 01:11:19 GMT From: zudupiper@aol.com (Zudupiper) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: funeral idea >You could also meander off playing the tune "Going Home". > Sometimes I do just that, but it's hard to play while smirking.... Zu - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 17:06:16 -0300 From: "dnimmo" Subject: (bagpipe) Proper kilt height. Close to fisticuffs in band re differences of opinion on "proper" height of kilt, ie., how much of knee should be showing. I know there are many personal opinions, mine included, but looking for possible sources that can be presented as some sort of "authority" on or off the internet addressing this question. Posts from military type pipe band members quoting their dress manuals would be much appreciated. Similarly, height of hose directives would be of interest. Thanks in advance David Tired of kilt bottoms being lower than hose tops! - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:42:23 -0500 From: "D. MACKINLEY RIEBESEHL" Subject: (bagpipe) Higgins does good work. we get all our kilts and jackets from him. Kerlin-Farina Pipe Band Cudahy/ Milwaukee John Richardson wrote: > On Sun, 22 Aug 1999 12:58:43 -0500, "Mike Camp" > wrote: > > >I can't stand the thought of having to order ... are there reputable kilt > >makers in the US that someone can put me on to? Thanks. > > > > Sure. Call John Higgins at 1-800-426-SCOT - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 13:05:49 -0400 From: brad.morrison@quebecorusa.com (Brad Morrison) Subject: (bagpipe) lip strength exercises Being new to piping, and not always having the time or place to practice my pipes, I was wondering if anybody had good suggestions for building lip strength. If there are any suggested exercises, I would appreciate it. Thanks - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 21:42:32 +0100 From: "Robert Low" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: memorizing tunes Some folk get it quicker than others - but you can develop the skill with practice. The taping thing is a good idea, possibly the best way as also mentioned is to break the tune down into phrases - this is how you learn piobaireachd and the same applies to all the rest. When I had to learn a ruck of tunes in a hurry I found that a good way was to make copies of the tunes (strictly for your own use, from your own books that you'd bought and hadn't ripped off of course!) and mark the phrases in different colours using magic marker. This gives you a visual cue as well as writing down A B A C, D B D C etc. A good test is to try to go for a memory playing of at least part of the tune every time you sit down to practice it. Then migrate it to the bagpipe and see if it still holds up... Bob - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 07:50:40 -0300 From: "dnimmo" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: lip strength exercises Brad Morrison wrote in message ... >I was wondering if anybody had good suggestions for building lip >strength. If there are any suggested exercises, I would appreciate it. as already stated.......no short route to gaining a years experience(practice).......it takes a year of practicing ! BUT..........surprised no one has mentioned it yet, but apparently the muscles for the centre of the mouth are much stronger than those for the side...........so it is recommended that you ALWAYS hold the PC/chanter in the centre of the mouth...........(Green Tutor Book Vol 1) David - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: 03 Aug 1999 23:06:20 GMT From: pyppr@aol.com (PYPPR) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: memorizing tunes > Re: memorizing tunes About a month--or so--after a tune has becoms standard, we go back to the chanter table with it and do a "round the house" one at a time. This points up the little deviations that usually creep in. We also do the same with well-established tunes of the reportoire for the same reason. Usually, we have all slipped something in (or out) that makes us just that much different from the score and the rest of the band. This seems to apply to the competition-level tunes as much as the simple dollar-generating parade tunes, so simple boredom doesn't appear to be the cause. FWIW, Stu - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 13:45:15 -0700 From: "Jeff Ramsden (MacLeòid)" Subject: (bagpipe) Building wind Hi all - I'm just starting on the GHB now, and can manage to get through something simple like 'Scots Wha Hae' with one drone (well, almost). To build wind (and mouth muscle) I've been playing two sets of 30 minutes (morning and evening) a day. I can't, of course, play for the entire 30 minutes, but I'll take a 1 minute break when I can't get my lips to make a seal anymore, then back at it whether I can get the chanter to play or not. After that, I take all my chanter reeds one at a time, and play a scale with each directly through the chanter (trying to break them all in). I can't always get them to sound, so I just try and finish the scale as best I can. I am currently using the middle tenor drone for this, with rubber corks in the other two drones. I haven't tried the bass drone yet (well, not seriously). Is this a good way to build strength for playing? Any thoughts? Any recommendations? Mar sin leat, Jeff - -- - ---------------------- Jeff Ramsden Clann MhicLeòid Leódhais (MacThorchadail) "I Birn Quhil I Se" - "Vivat Rex" - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 22:43:28 -0700 From: Andrew & Kristen Lenz Subject: (bagpipe) Re: lip strength exercises Here's where I get to improve my questions/answers ratio. :-) Here's the URL for some lip exercises: www.mines.uidaho.edu/ftp/pub/pipes/misc/lip_exer.txt I haven't tried them yet, although I plan to start this week . . . Andrew T. Lenz, Jr. alenz@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu Santa Cruz, California U.S.A. - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: 03 Aug 1999 23:47:07 GMT From: jsloanpr@aol.com (JSLOANPR) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Building wind > As to why 2 good chanter reeds .... In case you blow one out ...... > ( It could happen) It will happen! Jim - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 21:52:44 +0200 From: "Bo Møller-Nielsen" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: memorizing tunes Problem is that they always think that they got it right. I know, I' m playing in a band with 3 of them. So they just continue making the same mistakes over and over again. I'm not saying I newer makes mistakes - it happens - I think. But when I make a mistake I know that I made one, these pipers can't even here that they are playing wrong. So if they practised with the music in front of them, on there PC, I'm sure they would improve a lot. I don't even think they use there PC except for band practice - -- Bo Moeller-Nielsen - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 21:20:46 -0700 From: Andrew & Kristen Lenz Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Could this be the end of Yoplait PC reeds? With my last box of Cheerios, the "O"s didn't work as well as bridles!!! I think I'm going to write General Mills . . . And my Hefty garbage sack bagpipe bag tore loose at the neck!! Yeah, it's a CONSPIRACY against pipers!! P.S. Seriously, though, I think I'm agonna try the yogurt container trick for Shepherd tongue replacement. - -- Andrew T. Lenz, Jr. alenz@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu Santa Cruz, California U.S.A. - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 22:13:07 -0800 From: Michael New & Diane Rossmiller Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Building wind BGRAHAM001 wrote: > why do you need more than one good chanter reed? As to strength and > endurance....practice and time..... and run 5or 10 mi. a day.... I don't know...run 10 miles a day and, at least initially, you'll be far too knackered to play the pipes at all *\:^r Seriously, IMHO it shouldn't _take_ a lot of wind to keep the pipes going if your reeds are set up properly. A teacher is essential here - you'll have enough trouble initially learning to blow steadily and execute the music properly without having to foother about with reeds. Building up strength in your lips, however, is a different kettle of fish - see the recent thread on this topic, and Richard Mao's excellent pointers. Good luck, Michael - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: 04 Aug 1999 13:11:23 GMT From: bgraham001@aol.com (BGRAHAM001) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Building wind Its always good to have a back up. You make it sound as though you're putting an awful lot of time in on different reeds. Your P/M should be able to set a reed to your "level' of comfort/ ability, so you can spend your time playing.....not giving yourself a hernia. - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 00:45:59 -0600 From: owner-bagpipe@lists.xmission.com Subject: [none] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 09:20:17 -0400 From: Rick Brice Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Could this be the end of Yoplait PC reeds? My two cents.... the best plastic i've found for shepard replacements is that clear stuff used to bubble pack tools and things on a display rack. You will find several thicknesses available. I didn't measure it. I got a lifetime supply for my band when I bought some tools at Sears. Regards, Rick Andrew & Kristen Lenz wrote: > > With my last box of Cheerios, the "O"s didn't work as well as bridles!!! > I think I'm going to write General Mills . . . > > And my Hefty garbage sack bagpipe bag tore loose at the neck!! > > Yeah, it's a CONSPIRACY against pipers!! > > P.S. Seriously, though, I think I'm agonna try the yogurt container > trick for Shepherd tongue replacement. > -- > Andrew T. Lenz, Jr. > alenz@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu > Santa Cruz, California U.S.A. - -- Dilbert is not a Comic - It is a Documentary! R dot W dot BRICE at LMCO dot COM (lower case) - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: 04 Aug 1999 13:21:25 GMT From: bgraham001@aol.com (BGRAHAM001) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Building wind Thanks.....point is or should be that piping is a very physical endeavor. It takes conditioning,relative to the pipes,to be able to play well. anything that helps your cardiovascular system is bound to help your ability to play. I believe th reverse is true also,i.e. piping is great for the cardio/vasc system ( Except for P/Ms whose blood pressure tends to skyrocket in the circle) - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: 04 Aug 1999 20:53:37 GMT From: bgraham001@aol.com (BGRAHAM001) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Building wind A full bag would maka a hell of a floaty, wouldnt it? Point the drones for propulsion..... - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ End of bagpipe-digest V1 #30 **************************** - To unsubscribe to $LIST, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe $LIST" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.