From: owner-bagpipe-digest@lists.xmission.com (bagpipe-digest) To: bagpipe-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: bagpipe-digest V1 #35 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 035 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 29 Aug 1999 09:01:07 GMT From: gaelmann@aol.com (Gaelmann) Subject: (bagpipe) funeral idea Hello fellow pipers, I'm not claiming to be a master Piper so please take it easy on me! I find funerals to be kind of akward especially at the end when you finish off with "Amazing Grace", stop and walk back to your car and leave while the whole family is still there mourning and watching you leave with 200 bucks in your pocket and a not completely hidden twinkle in your eye for a total of 15 minutes of play. It doesnt sit quite right in my stomach, so in order to help ease the transition from playing graveside to getting in the car and leaving I figured why not play Amazing Grace one time through at graveside and then the second time through start walking back to the car, once you get within 10 or 15 feet then stop and put the pipes in the back and get out of there. This works for the family as the get the effect of the lone piper trailing off into the scenery and you get to make a slick and subtle getaway. I tried it this weekend and it worked real nice, I felt like 007 making such a smooth exit. Mike McFafern "Gaelmann the Mailman" - - 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: 18 Aug 1999 01:24:39 GMT From: rojo2g@aol.com (Rojo2G) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: question Re: Military band Horsehair sporrans?... My P/M got one sent to him that way. He recieved a heavy discount on it. It finally came out beautiful without a lot of effort. I can ask him about it. - - 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 11:40:27 +0100 From: "FrankL" Subject: (bagpipe) AC/DC Tune 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: 14 Aug 1999 16:28:00 GMT From: "Jeremy Main" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Top 5 Hints Ccc31807 wrote in message <19990810090636.13655.00000048@ng-ff1.aol.com>... >>>About the worst thing you can do during practise is play fast. Play >>>everything as slow as possible so as all the >>>technique/fingerwork/expression/execution/MUSIC comes through clearly. If >>>you can play slow you can play fast. >> >>No, and that's why there's so many people who hit the wall in grade 3 >>and only get there by lobotomizing the score. >> >>In order to play fast you have to play faster than you are capable of >>playing accurately. > >This is 100% right! > >You've got to play it slow; if you can't play it slow, you can't play it. >Period. > >But when you play at performance level, you have got to play at 80% of your top >speed. Therefore, if you never play it fast, you will always be stuck at a >very slow tempo. > >It's like a weight trainer always lifting to failure. If you can play it at a >certain tempo, you have no business practicing it at that tempo. My theory is >that you start slow, and speed it up until you start to loose control, then you >stop and isolate those passages where you need the work. The idea is to always >work on the cusp. > >The ultimate goal is to make music, and tempo is irrelevant to that end. You >can't make music if your mind is on the playing. This is why you use your >practice time to build speed AND accuracy, and use your performance time to >drop back and concentrate on the music. You folks could do with getting your hands on "The Inner Game of Music". - - 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: 25 Aug 1999 03:21:20 GMT From: zudupiper@aol.com (Zudupiper) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: pin5x.jpg >Well, here is the FINAL version of THE Pin! I absolutely think this is a >hoot! It's a keeper! >Zu? How >do you like it? :) Sorry, Boss :) :) Boss, my eye ; ) I love it, and the "re re re" is just TOO good. Let's book 'em, Dan-O. If you're interested in a pin, let me know. Right now we're at about the dozen point, and we're trying to find out where the next price break is at. Thanks, 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: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:19:48 GMT From: ToneCzar@erols.com (Chris Hamilton) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: bagpipes at Weddings On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:58:09 GMT, JOHN MITCHELL wrote: > > >Chris Hamilton wrote: >> 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 ... > > >Knowing you, you probably still got your 250 bucks out of her! LOL No, but they let me drink at the reception!!!! (Hey I was only 13). >John Mitchell(the Lovely Piper) Well, ya look good to me, I don't care who calls you an ugly so-and-so ... 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 18:09:40 -0400 From: Bryan Little Subject: (bagpipe) drone cord color? 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..........? - - 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 05:30:36 GMT From: bagpiip@aol.com (Bagpiip) 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 Quiet????? That's a first!!! LOL Contact the "antipyper" (formerly of) or someone from seven nations. They were/are the best people to ask for advice on amplification, since they are the best. Les or Shawn can help you via private emails with your questions. Bill Mar a bha, mar a tha, mar a bhitheas gu brath, ri traghadh's ri lionadh. - - 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, 30 Aug 1999 09:40:04 -0300 From: "dnimmo" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: funeral idea Gaelmann wrote in message <19990830082637.05995.00002107@ng-fm1.aol.com>... subject. >So please don't persecute me as Jewel says" these are not your hands they are >my own". Don't ask me what that means but in a strange way I think it may >apply. > >Mike (don't judge me)McFafern Not sure why you feel guilty...............they didn't have to hire you BUT that being said, "dashing" for the car might be considered in poor taste. moving away from immediate proximity of the gravesite on the repeat(s) of AG would be in better taste, specially if it were followed by other appropriate tunes, slow aires, etc. continued until most of the party had left (from a couple of hundred yards away) so the sounds of the pipes still playing faintly in the background can be heard. For $200 I would be more than happy to go through all the appropriate type music I know (a couple of times)............and you might feel less guilty! David - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 08:27:56 -0700 From: "Iain Sherwood" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: The thing in the sock. The 'table manners' thing is most probably Victorian invention, and since very VERY few of the sgian ochles survive (only one that I know of in the NMAS) they were probably an uncommon item. The earliest recognisable Sgian Dhubh (still surviving) come from the 1820's during the early 'Celtic Revival' period and heavily associated with George IV's state visit to Edinburgh. During that time over 100 tartans were 'invented' for families that had never worn tartan, or the kilt, or even trews. Lowlanders with no Highland connection whatsoever were kilted out, and travesties of Highland Dress were to be seen all over Scotland - feather bonnets, horsehair sporrans, all that rot - which came up in the military, not in the Highlands. The Victorians carried it even further, with strict regulations regarding 'day' and 'evening' dress which we still conform to today.... IS Bill Burt wrote in message news:7qbca1$n06$1@nntp8.atl.mindspring.net... > Actually, the sghian dubh (black knife) was originally (according to > accounts which I read) a last resort weapon which was concealed under the > arm and was intended only for use if the combatant was hopelessly cornered > without any other means of defense. It became an indispensable part of > highland dress when it moved to the right sock. > > The tradition of carrying it in the right sock is essentially a part of what > became known as "table manners." In short, a gentleman never carries a > concealed weapon - especially not to the dinner table. Hence, placement in > the right sock was a sign to your host and/or guests that although you were > carrying a weapon, it was in plain view for all to see and that you were a > gentleman who had no intention of using this "last resort," since all other > weapons, for the duration of the social occasion, were either not brought > along, or left at the door. > > - - 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: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 12:50:17 GMT From: ToneCzar@erols.com (Chris Hamilton) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: bagpipes at Weddings On Sat, 21 Aug 1999 03:01:46 -0500, Tad Myers wrote: >Had a friend play the Jolly Beggerman at my wedding 10 odd years ago...i >didn't know at the time that tune would foretell the future :o) Preach it, brother! >Stay away from "Collins Cattle" also, its not something you want to think >about. "Cattle Colons" ??? 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 00:42:26 -0600 From: owner-bagpipe@lists.xmission.com Subject: [none] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:19:48 GMT From: ToneCzar@erols.com (Chris Hamilton) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: bagpipes at Weddings On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:58:09 GMT, JOHN MITCHELL wrote: > > >Chris Hamilton wrote: >> 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 ... > > >Knowing you, you probably still got your 250 bucks out of her! LOL No, but they let me drink at the reception!!!! (Hey I was only 13). >John Mitchell(the Lovely Piper) Well, ya look good to me, I don't care who calls you an ugly so-and-so ... 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: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 21:53:15 -0700 From: Andrew & Kristen Lenz Subject: (bagpipe) Re: funeral idea Funerals. You don't just walk up to a set of pipes and play "Amazing Grace" at a funeral. It takes years of practice to get good at the pipes---okay, so Amazing Grace is an easy tune and I'd actually feel comfortable playing it at a funeral myself after only learning piping for less than two years, but you get the idea. It's like a doctor, he looks at you for a couple minutes, tells you that you are fine and charges you a bunch of money for something that's not even entertaining! Plus Richard's points about travel time, garb, etc. A doctor doesn't even leave his office, you could charge less if they just held the funeral at your house . . . ;-) - -- 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: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:07:38 +0100 From: Iain Richardson Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Smallpipes with ceilidh band - make/volume/key? Mike Talcott wrote: > Steve: > > Here is the Article from Evertjan, as posted on the UP list, by his permission ..etc... Very good posting, thanks ! I use an SM57 instrument mic, aimed at the lowest notes of the SP chanter (A in this case) and we get a good output that balances well with other instruments, without suffering from feedback. Iain Richardson. - - 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, 26 Aug 1999 03:04:30 GMT From: "Stewart Nimmo" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Highland Cathedral Composer / origin? > I believe that Highland Cathedral is of German origin, but have no other > source info. Can anyone advise me as to who the composer was, or any other > related info? Many thanks, BP HC was written by Uli Roever and Michael Korb; at least one of these persons is German. Stewart Nimmo, Maitland, ON, Canada. See my website, Canadian Bagpipe Links, at http://web.ripnet.com/~nimmos/ / O/// <|o> /_\ | \ - - 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 10:38:19 -0700 From: Andrew & Kristen Lenz Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Pin is up! Oops, Please note that my just posted comments were with regard to Pin design number 1, not number 2! Andrew - -- 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: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:19:09 -0700 From: "Iain Sherwood" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: funeral idea In addition, have you priced the cost of a funeral lately? Average for casket, service, and burial is just over $5,000US. That's FIVE GRAND, boyzngurls. The 200 clams or so that you're getting for fifteen minutes or so of playing is zilch compared to the hundreds, sometimes thousands spent on flowers ($100-2000), casket ($1000-8000), plot ($500 for a cremation [1square foot] to several thousand for a burial plot), headstone ($1000- 50,000), and so on. You're just window dressing in the expenses department. And yet it's the piper that people remember. I did a gig in which I played in the choir loft at the ebd of a funeral mass in a Catholic Church - one tune. The people were in tears. They deceased's son gladly forked over $250 for JUST ONE TUNE. Consider also that, unlike weddings, where you can be there for hours playing requests for the immediate family and get only $200, at a funeral you're playing for EVERYONE there. In addition, weddings give you weeks, months, or sometimes years (I shit you not) of lead time to consult, get time off from work or school, whatever you need to do the gig. Funerals, you're lucky to get three days' notice, and they're almost always on a week day...as Mr. Mao said, all the time you spend getting ready and getting there has to be considered too. So don't feel too bad - after all, if you could do three funerals a week, you could make a living at it.... IS Richard Mao wrote in message news:37CAFE34.9787B6F0@prodigy.net... > Hi Mike... > > some idle thoughts... > > guilty about $200 for a short period of playing...for a funeral service...? YOU may > have the wrong attitude, brother.... > > how much time did it take you to garb up...travel to the site (mileage > expense)...warm up and tune your pipes (you did make a sincere effort to tune them, > didn't you?)...wait for the appropriate time(s) to play. (especially a longish > funeral)..travel back home.... hang up your clothes and wash/clean them as > appropriate.... > > Were you able to perform any other meaningful projects during the day....income > producing?...or did the gig effectively break up your day.... > > Are you proud of your playing....are you rendering honor to the deceased... giving > the deceased a proud sendoff and helping the family get through the grieving > process...did you play to the best of your ability to express the tunes you played? > (if not...draw and act on your own conclusions...refuse the next gig you can't give > your all to).... > > do you really feel the family resents you....after having members of the family > come up and tell you how much it meant to them.... how the deceased would have > loved it.... > > How many of the family knows what you are being paid... they only know the honor > they are rendering to the deceased... ............and so should you.... it will > help your view of the matter, I hope. > > A smile on your face is the light in the window > that lets people know you're at home.(author unknown) > > Richard Mao, The Peking Piper ( PekingPiper@mao.org ) > > > Gaelmann wrote: > > > >that's the way I always do it, Mike > > > > Oh man! I thought I had a great original idea. > > > > >I've had the occasion to talk to after the funeral. > > > > Wow! I dont even feel comfortable looking in their direction. Maybe If I was > > doing it for free, I always feel like the family resents me for some reason. > > Well maybe not for*some reason*, I think the reason's quite clear as I have 200 > > dollars of someones hard earned cash sitting in my sporran > > and I didn't even break a sweat. I think we all know about that exciting *I > > just got away with *ripping off* the local bank, lets skip town to tiajuana* > > feeling you get as soon as you pass the gate of the cemetery. I usually let out > > a YeeeeHawww! myself. > > Sure I feel guilty, but I'm an Irish Catholic, Guilt is already such a common > > thread in my life anything else just wouldnt feel right. > > I'm being truthful, Making a quick 200 bucks is exciting to me, maybe its > > because I lead a fairly normal/boring lifestyle, but I'm willing to bet I'm not > > alone in my feelings on this subject. > > So please don't persecute me as Jewel says" these are not your hands they are > > my own". Don't ask me what that means but in a strange way I think it may > > apply. > > > > Mike (don't judge me)McFafern > - - 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 22:54:26 GMT From: oshpiper Subject: (bagpipe) Re: funeral idea In article <19990829050107.27472.00001636@ng-cr1.aol.com>, gaelmann@aol.com (Gaelmann) wrote: > Hello fellow pipers, > > I'm not claiming to be a master Piper so please take it easy on me! I > find funerals to be kind of akward especially at the end when you finish off > with "Amazing Grace", stop and walk back to your car and leave while the whole > family is still there mourning and watching you leave ... > so in order to help > ease the transition from playing graveside to getting in the car and leaving I > figured why not play Amazing Grace one time through at graveside and then the > second time through start walking back to the car, You could also meander off playing the tune "Going Home". Pat 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: 22 Aug 1999 23:51:03 GMT From: zudupiper@aol.com (Zudupiper) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Proper kilt height. >Where does one align the top of the kilt? At >the navel? At the "normal" beltline? Within one inch of either? Your "natural" waist is in the vicinity of your navel, and that's where you should wear the kilt (give or take a little bit I suppose). It's about where your arm bends (the inside of your elbow). I used to reenact Civil War, and the uniform pants were much higher-waisted than modern pants are now. They came up to the fold of your elbow. I've seen some people wear their kilts at the same height that they wear their blue jeans at, and it's not pretty. Usually these are people who wear a kilt about once a year and don't know any better, or else gave the wrong measurements when they had one made. 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 21:44:39 -0400 From: "A.L. Rapp" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Pin4.jpg . . . sorry! It's Great but you have to be able to make it out of lead for a dime, call it pewter and sell it for $35.00 Maeve wrote in message <01bee8af$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: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 19:56:43 GMT From: Brian Counihan Subject: (bagpipe) RE: HEMP In article <19990810144250.16170.00000158@ng-cg1.aol.com>, jginmd@aol.com (Jginmd) wrote: > Why do pipers use hemp and wax? This is a lot of work. They spend all that time > foolling around with bits of string and wax and then debate about exactly what > the best method and materials are. Why not join the larger music world ( or the > 15th century let alone 20th) and cork all your fittings so you can spend your > time playing? > JGS > Oh boy....Och!.....you had to din't you......Let the loose the dogs of flames!!!!!!!!!! Go back and read past posts on cork vs hemp and you'll understand. - -- Brian C. http://www.stcolumcille.com/ "If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose." - Deep Thought, Jack Handy 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: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 03:08:45 GMT From: pmlerwick@wavetech.net (Royce Lerwick) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Smallpipes with ceilidh band - make/volume/key? On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:22:36 -0500, Mike Talcott wrote: > > >Mike Talcott wrote: > >An amazing amount of garbage, but I forgot one point: get a sound guy that listens >to (and likes) what you guys play. Nothing like trying to set up a Celtic band to >sound like AC/DC. > Maybe we can condense that to: 1 Set levels on the smallpipes just short of feedback. 2 Set everything else to mix up to that. 3 Leave everything the hell alone after it's the soundcheck. Royce (By the way, sit down, play the chanter in your crotch, set the mike right at your knee pointed at the family jewels, directed at the bottom of the chanter, the weaker notes of the smallpipes.) - - 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, 19 Aug 1999 12:22:36 -0500 From: Mike Talcott Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Smallpipes with ceilidh band - make/volume/key? Mike Talcott wrote: An amazing amount of garbage, but I forgot one point: get a sound guy that listens to (and likes) what you guys play. Nothing like trying to set up a Celtic band to sound like AC/DC. - - 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 10:03:55 -0700 From: "Iain Sherwood" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Pipe Bags L&M elk will play under the most diverse conditions for the longest time - average use is seven years. IS David Hennessey wrote in message news:7qbmfs$21e$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk... > Can anyone tell me the best type to get ? > > With so many different types to chaise from I between a rock and a hard > place. HELP! > > - - 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 05:41:01 GMT From: pmlerwick@wavetech.net (Royce Lerwick) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Drone cords: Silk or polyester? On 14 Aug 1999 23:14:32 GMT, zudupiper@aol.com (Zudupiper) wrote: >>The difference between these and you last >>cords is probobly just a different maker > >Now THAT makes sense. > >Should have thought of that myself. > >Zu Just to fire off another war, I've seen a lot of Pakistani work with fabric and fiber, and they don't do a lot better with cords or kilts than they do with pipes, and that's even lower-tech than turning pipes, so it isn't a technology problem. 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: 12 Aug 1999 02:45:23 GMT From: ccc31807@aol.com (Ccc31807) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Building wind >Hi Jeff! > >You might SAY you understand, but your BODY doesn't understand. You CAN'T >play >the pipes with cheek pressure. FWIW, I'm a month into playing with an H2O manometer, and that device will upset all your playing conventions in a real big hurry. If you play while watching that little tube of water bounce up and down, and try to tame it, you will VERY QUICKLY learn that you play the bag from the shoulder. There is no way to hold it steady with the lips, mouth, lungs, or diaphram. The ONLY way you can minimize the bounce is with pressure from the shoulder, and you very quickly focus on that. This device provides biofeedback in a particularly harsh and unforgiving manner. Highly recommended to all pipers who have never tried such a device. - - 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, 30 Aug 1999 17:05:26 +0100 From: "David Hennessey" Subject: (bagpipe) Pipe Bags Can anyone tell me the best type to get ? With so many different types to chaise from I between a rock and a hard place. HELP! - - 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: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 10:21:30 GMT From: Bill Carr Subject: (bagpipe) Ross Cannister Bag for sale Ross Canister bag (clamp type) small size, which actually equates to medium size hide or sheepskin at 10 3/4" x 28". One of the canisters is slightly modified because I only had the drones connected up to it. The other canister has never been unpacked and there is a spare manifold. I haven't played the bag more than few hours. The original bag was medium but I swapped to small just before going back to Brillcream.. eh..... Sheepskin. $US110 + shipping. I could also be persuaded to part with my oversized pipe case. You will need it with the Ross set up. Bill Carr - - 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 10:19:51 -0700 From: Theodore Le boeuf Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Drone cords: Silk or polyester? 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, of course ... > > IS > Royce Lerwick wrote in message > news:37b64f19.1423512@news.mn.mediaone.net... > > On 14 Aug 1999 23:14:32 GMT, zudupiper@aol.com (Zudupiper) wrote: > > > > >>The difference between these and you last > > >>cords is probobly just a different maker > > > > > >Now THAT makes sense. > > > > > >Should have thought of that myself. > > > > > >Zu > > > > Just to fire off another war, I've seen a lot of Pakistani work with > > fabric and fiber, and they don't do a lot better with cords or kilts > > than they do with pipes, and that's even lower-tech than turning > > pipes, so it isn't a technology problem. > > > > Royce Naaah,, the guys I go through are realy old farts, like in their late 20's... Mike - - 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, 11 Aug 1999 05:44:28 GMT From: pmlerwick@wavetech.net (Royce Lerwick) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Top 5 Hints On Tue, 10 Aug 1999 23:34:48 GMT, "Screecher" wrote: >Has anybody ever heard a top flight pipe corp or a top flight solo piper (or >for that matter solo drummer) practise as fast as possible then slow down??? >I have heard many pipe corps and soloists playing slow and gradually work up >to a tempo they are happy with. I have never heard of a corp/soloist playing >as fast as they can then slow down. And I've never seen the neighbor's dog crap in my yard, but I know he does because it's his crap and there it is. 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: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 18:09:40 -0400 From: Bryan Little Subject: (bagpipe) drone cord color? 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..........? - - 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 11:15:02 -0400 From: "Blair Piper" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Top 5 Hints Bagpiip wrote in message <19990812002122.19289.00000351@ng-xc1.aol.com>... > >After years of study, I've found it hard to distinguish doggie-doo, from >scottie-doo, so with all the 90's science stuff aside, it's still a mystery... Bill! Bill! Bill! This IS the nineties (still)! Whenever I have questions about this stuff, I always turn to DNA testing. Get with it. Stop putting aside "all the 90's science stuff". ....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: 17 Aug 1999 23:26:23 GMT From: bobalewi@aol.com (Bobalewi) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: drone cord color? black - - 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. ------------------------------ End of bagpipe-digest V1 #35 **************************** - 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.