From: owner-bagpipe-digest@lists.xmission.com (bagpipe-digest) To: bagpipe-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: bagpipe-digest V1 #152 Reply-To: bagpipe-digest Sender: owner-bagpipe-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-bagpipe-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk bagpipe-digest Thursday, October 21 1999 Volume 01 : Number 152 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 00:23:42 +0100 From: "lsrapm" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: manometer: lost instructions Lloyd Bogart wrote in message news:bogart-1910991245050001@138.49.130.241... > In practice, the manometer described below is a bit cumbersome, > and severely limits the movements of the piper. > > As an answer to this, we've devised the step-thru portable > manometer. The board is eliminated, the corked end of the > tube is hooked to the base drone, behind the player, and also > secured at the belt. The piper steps through the "U", and the > free end of the tube is again secured at the belt in front, and > held out from the chest with any suitable brace. (Corking the > other end of the manometer is recommended whilst putting > it on.) > > This arrangement permits one or several pipers, so equipped, > to actually march about while testing steadiness of blowing, > and the effect, particularly with fluorescent pink water, and > a very unsteady blower, is, to say the least, breathtaking! > > Always trying to help; > > Lloyd > ***** Lloyd, This has just got to be the most entertaining post of the evening. Thank you. I posted something recently about testing the tightness of a bag by sitting on it. I then got an email from someone I do regard as a friend (really!) who suggested a very graphic picture of a roomful of pipers bouncing around the band hall on fully-inflated bags in the same style as toddlers do on a similar-shaped toy...... Now I have to contend with the picture of a roomful of pipers marching up and down with long palpitating gaily-coloured plastic tubes protruding from their drones and winding about their midriffs..... (Reminds me a little of the "Borg" in Star Trek - Second Generation...) Having said that, I do understand the serious side of what you say, and it merits consideration. 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: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 19:29:45 -0400 From: "JOHN MITCHELL" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: J. Mitchell-Who does he think he is? sir just drop the chalupa wrote in message > Where do you get off telling the NG that this place is for "bagpipe info only"? I believe it was from a majority of posters, who are tired of the drivel that goes on. Really Bill, this NG has replaced your social life. No offence intended, but I don't think most people really care about what your defending or setting right or who started what and calling me names. The message is loud and clear Bill, bagpipe information only, that's what they want. If it gets too boring for ya, then turn it off and play with the cat! See ya sometime in a real beer tent! cheers John only - - 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: 20 Oct 1999 00:11:45 GMT From: bagpiip@aol.com (sir just drop the chalupa ) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: It's cracked. :( >no way this side of Hades am >I gonna try something like that....I still have problems tying my shoes. > One word: VELCRO (instead of laces) ;?)~ Bill Mar a bha, mar a tha, mar a bhitheas gu brath, ri tra'ghadh's ri lionadh. "I installed my own kitchen faucet today" - - 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, 19 Oct 1999 19:49:52 -0400 From: "JOHN MITCHELL" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: J. Mitchell-Who does he think he is? TomMcDonld wrote in message > You don't understand what drives a man like John or any other really dedicated > piper. I can understand that attitude very well. OK..I don't particularly like > his attitude sometimes.. but I can understand it. Well it's not really my own personnal attitude Tom, what I was trying to get across is the attitudes that are built up over the years from meeting many people and influenced by a whole society. It's the perception that this NG tends to complicate things that should be a simple matter, but on the other hand simplify things that are indeed very complicated such as blowing tone. Lets face it, the greater majority of this NG are beginners to rank amatuers, and you can talk and discuss all you want, but if they were to get handed a perfectly good set of pipes that were setup properly, it wouldn't make any difference in their performance. That's not their fault, it's just inexperience and all I'm saying is you have to play and put the time in. There's no way around it! John - - 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: 20 Oct 1999 01:01:21 GMT From: zudupiper@aol.com (Zudupiper) Subject: (bagpipe) Playing Plastic Well, the time has come to get my beater set (Dunbars, Warmac chanter, canmore bag, Zudupiper reeds) in shape for the cold weather and a few upcoming gigs. Tinkered up a fresh set of drone reeds, got a chanter reed adjusted, and played them last night. Played them today and got them mostly settled in. I've been playing Kron drones and chanter since May, and haven't played my plastic pipes since last spring. They sound antiseptic. Artificial. Boring. No spark to them. The drones are steady, and tune nicely (in fact they might even tune a little closer than my Krons). The chanter's OK...all the notes are in the right places with the help of some tape. But the overall tone is very different from what I'm used to. Very one-dimensional and not rich at all. Thin, both chanter and drones. And from what I remember from last year, the plastic pipe sound quieter compared to then. For the same strength setup as my regular AB pipes, the plastic SEEM quieter. Maybe it's just an absence of richness. Having half an ear is more a curse than a blessing sometimes. I'm using any old reed in the chanter...happens to be an Apps. What's a good reed (non ridge cut) that might liven up a Warmac chanter? 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, 20 Oct 1999 02:22:53 GMT From: oshpiper Subject: (bagpipe) RE: Shepherd drone reed problem In article <19OCT99.08193981@skyway.usask.ca>, meek@skyway.usask.ca wrote: > Put a little (tiny) bit of plasticine on the end of the tongue - that > will lower the pitch, > chris If they are the original white tongues, I'd re-tongue them. They will almost without doubt end up breaking off in your hand if you manipulate them at all. I'd try a little bees wax instead of the plasticine. Ball it up by rolling it between your finger and thumb and mash it onto the flat of the tongue for a quick fix. Don't get any onto the side of the tongue or underneath it. Pat Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy. - - 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, 19 Oct 1999 20:56:53 -0500 From: "D. MacKinley Riebesehl" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Gig Rates wow! this is an incrediblly low price! what lucky people to have so many good pipers for such a reasonable rate. sure does bring things back to reality! Slainte, M dnimmo wrote: > D. MacKinley Riebesehl wrote in message > <380bab49$0$28089@news.execpc.com>... > >hey, what do you all charge out there??? etc.... > > Just to bring you guys down to reality, ie., the other end of the > scale...........I recently turned down a piping job from a convention > consultant who hires pipers here in Halifax on a regular basis......piping > for pub crawls, piping in head tables, 10 minute calls to dinner, piping > groups from their hotel to the resturant where they are having dinner, etc. > > They told me their standard pay scale for a piper was $50 CAN for the first > hour and then $25 CAN per half hour thereafter ! > > I told them that was "starving college student" piper rates........(of which > we have many in Halifax).......so they can probably get away with it. > > I had an open grade piper, an acredited judge, several times Maritime > Champion Supreme play outside the church for 15 minutes just before my > daughters wedding and 15 minutes right after the ceremony three years > ago......cost $75 CAN > > Just played for 60 minutes at Fall Convocation for $100 CAN > > While the demand for pipers is high, our local supply is large also. To a > degree, it's what the market will bear............. > > BUT in an area where you can get $300 US for a single piper how much can you > charge for a whole pipe band? > > 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: 20 Oct 1999 00:02:42 GMT From: ccc31807@aol.com (Ccc31807) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Shepherd drone reed problem >They DO sound good with Peter Crisler tongues! Not so good out of the >box, though. > >Chris > I have several tongues that Pete was good enough to send me (for another purpose) so I'll retongue them. And BTW, I saw a set of pipes Pete made at the Stn. Mtn. Highland Games, and they certainly looked professionally made. I didn't hear them, but I understand the piper that played them came away with a first place medal, so there must not have been any problems with the playing. - - 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: 20 Oct 1999 02:56:05 GMT From: ccc31807@aol.com (Ccc31807) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Adult Learners >Although I agree with your post, I just want to point out a few things. >I for one will never >compete with the bagpipe. This is a mistake. You don't compete for the sake of beating our opponets, you compete for the sake of improving your playing. You will learn more in one day competing at a games, and watching both those that are better than you and those that are worse than you, than you will in six months of private lessons. Don't take my word for it. Try it ONE TIME and see. >Any musical activity is for relaxation and enjoyment. Not so, IMO. Musical activity is for the purpose of creating beauty. Many times, music is not relaxing or enjoyable, either for the performer or the listener. (Example: I have performed (sung) Bach's St. Matthew Passion, all four hours, and two words I would never use to describe it are relaxing and enjoyable.) >If you can pick up the >pipes, play for a while and, upon putting them down, joyfully thank the Dear >Lord for the gift of >talent He has bestowed, then you've accomplsihed a lot more than any of the >"technical >perfectionists' WILL EVER UNDERSTAND. Yeah, well, I can't disagree with this, except to say that you have obviously never experienced pipes coming alive under our arm. You don't just "pick up the pipes" and "play for a while." Piping is like making love - it is a total experience, mental, physical, and spiritual. All this said, Me@sorry.private, I agree with your post. You were so much on target, that I felt I just had to help you out a little bit where you (IMO) went astray. - - 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: 20 Oct 1999 02:59:53 GMT From: ccc31807@aol.com (Ccc31807) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Pipe Tune in a movie! >Going Home - > >Does this mean we can't play it at funerals or whatever without getting >written permission and paying royalties? I think this is public domain by now. It's been, what, 140 years? - - 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, 20 Oct 1999 00:25:27 +0100 From: "lsrapm" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Shepherd drone reed problem Bob Cameron wrote De gustibus... > This is just a light-hearted post. Bob, I liked what you said about the Shepherd reeds. Sound advice. (Ugh - sorry - that pun WAS unintentional) It's just that I was intrigued by the last remark. I used to be good at latin many years ago. Please refresh my memory. What does it mean? (It just SOUNDS interesting.) 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: 17 Oct 1999 17:17:35 GMT From: bagpiip@aol.com (Sir just drop the chalupa) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Why is it ? >you Americans take fighting FAR TOO SERIOUSLY.................. > Or could it be that, you take AMERICANS FIGHTING far too seriously? Seems to me your taking it more seriously than we are. Bill Mar a bha, mar a tha, mar a bhitheas gu brath, ri tra'ghadh'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: 20 Oct 1999 03:16:12 GMT From: bagpiip@aol.com (sir just drop the chalupa ) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: J. Mitchell-Who does he think he is? >I believe it was from a majority of posters, >who are tired of the drivel that goes on. On what NG? It wasn't here... theres over 264 people here. How many votes were counted? >Really Bill, this NG has replaced your social life. YOU DONT EVEN HAVE ONE AND YOUR GIVING ME ADVICE ON LIFE??? LOLOLOL Here you go again giving advice on something you know nothing about. Bill Mar a bha, mar a tha, mar a bhitheas gu brath, ri tra'ghadh's ri lionadh. "I installed my own kitchen faucet today" - - 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: 20 Oct 1999 03:22:45 GMT From: bagpiip@aol.com (Just drop the chalupa ) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: J. Mitchell-Who does he think he is? >If it gets too boring for ya, then turn it off >and play with the cat! > Well at least I OWN my own cat! But I think thats what you need to do, while the other 200 or so of us are having fun posting here. It's an "internet community" not a place for the worlds greats to give advice while we listen. Theres far more to a newgroup than just pure piping info. I feel sorry for you John, your missing a lot of the pleasure of being here. Bill Mar a bha, mar a tha, mar a bhitheas gu brath, ri tra'ghadh'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: 20 Oct 1999 03:25:22 GMT From: bagpiip@aol.com (Just drop the chalupa ) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: lovely.... >I installed a faucet AND a sink > Geez... female plumbers, always bragging LOL Bill Mar a bha, mar a tha, mar a bhitheas gu brath, ri tra'ghadh'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: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 00:18:47 -0400 From: Chris Hamilton Subject: (bagpipe) Re: John Mitchell On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 19:18:36 -0400, "JOHN MITCHELL" wrote: > >oshpiper wrote in > >> >> Self-grandiousity. Wow, John. Your a legend in your own mind. > >I THINK NOT, the way I look at it, I've completed my apprenticeship. > >I'm not embarrassed to say that >I can play in any band in the world, >It has nothing to do with image. > >Is it any different when you complete an apprenticeship or >university degree and say you are ready and can now work >for any company in the world? > >If you can read music, write music, have the ability to >play the music as it was meant to be played, able to >adapt to most styles of playing, and can setup >and understand the instrument you are playing, >then your classified as a professional player. > >The only difference between professional pipers and >professional conservatory musicians is a salary of $70,000 >for playing in the orchestra. > >John Mitchell Right on, brother. John may be a bit abrasive at times, but the mofo can play ... make no mistake ... Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chris Hamilton -- ToneCzar@erols.com City of Washington Pipe Band http://toneczar.freeservers.com/ - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 00:24:52 -0400 From: Chris Hamilton Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Playing Plastic On 20 Oct 1999 01:01:21 GMT, zudupiper@aol.com (Zudupiper) wrote: >What's a good reed (non ridge cut) that might liven up a Warmac chanter? A 1976 MacAllister ... Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chris Hamilton -- ToneCzar@erols.com City of Washington Pipe Band http://toneczar.freeservers.com/ - - To unsubscribe to bagpipe, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe bagpipe" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 09:15:45 +0100 From: "André Mittun" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: The Worlds Hi Michael (and not sch) Sounds to me that you're a kind of SFU-fan ;-)) Regards André ************************************************* André Mittun, Andre_Mittun@vip.cybercity.dk The Heather Pipes & Drums of Copenhagen http://www.heather.dk Michael Ambech wrote in message <7uinuj$cbj$1@news.inet.tele.dk>... >Anyone got the chance to listen to the cd's from the worlds? What do you >think? Was the result fair? Being a drummer I wouldn't know much about the >piping bits (although I think FMM and SFU sound mighty strong), but SFU's >drumcorps is leading the way in tightness and dynamics, and SFU are way >ahead in the ensemble department. As for 78th.....well I didn't hear the 2nd >cd, sorry! > >Schmichael > >Denmark > > - - 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, 20 Oct 1999 09:56:46 -0000 From: "paul draper" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Pipe Tune in a movie! Doug Campbell wrote in message news:380CD493.942C803F@maine.rr.com... > > > "Jeff Ramsden (MacLeòid)" wrote: > > > Rob wrote in message > > news:7ugvme$9cg$1@autumn.news.rcn.net... > > > Its called "Going Home" a common funeral tune! > > > > > > Rob > > > NYC > > > > By PM Matheson ....for some reason I like almost ALL of his slow airs. > > "Going Home' is a theme from Antonin Dvorak's New World Symphony. > > Doug C. > I heard the story that Dvorak actually heard it played by a piper and it's a McCrimmon tune. - -- Paul Draper 0171 369 2754 - - 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: 20 Oct 1999 10:52:55 GMT From: bagpiip@aol.com (Just drop the chalupa ) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: J. Mitchell-Who does he think he is? >Nobody cares about you or your opinion Nor I about yours. For every post like this, I have 5 people who say "Don't be silent", so FO. Bill Mar a bha, mar a tha, mar a bhitheas gu brath, ri tra'ghadh'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: 20 Oct 1999 11:10:54 GMT From: bagpiip@aol.com (Just drop the chalupa ) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: J. Mitchell-Who does he think he is? John, This is my last response to this thread, so go ahead and get the last word. Sorry to all those whose time I've wasted with this nonsense, but some of these things needed to be said. Apologies to John for private posts that should've gone private, but I mistakenly sent them to both the NG and his priv. address. If you'd like to see me a wee bit more silent in the future, stop playing god of the NG, show some respect for others regardless of their abilities, and stop trying to impose what you (and maybe a dozen others) think this NG should be, and stop trying to drive-off a certain person who your so jealous of just because you think this should be "Johns elite NG" with you in charge. OTOH, if the crap above continues, I will continue to be vocal. But this thread needs to die. Bill Mar a bha, mar a tha, mar a bhitheas gu brath, ri tra'ghadh'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: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 08:57:48 -0400 From: Ed Via Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Gibson Pipes Update (was "cost of bagpipes") In our band there is quite a variety of different pipes being played - Naill, Shepherd, Kintail, Dunbar, Gillanders & McLeod, and Gibson. Speaking as one who has often gone round the circle putting a final tuning on the drones, the Gibson pipes are consistently the easiest sets to tune, and have the best bass tone. Ccc31807 wrote: > > An open piper, whose credibility was on the line, offered the public opinion > that the two best pipe makers in the world at present were Gibson and Naill. - - 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: 20 Oct 1999 07:58:23 -0500 From: "Matt Buckley" Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Pipe Tune in a movie! paul draper wrote in article > Doug Campbell wrote in message > > "Jeff Ramsden (MacLeòid)" wrote: > > > Rob wrote in message > > > > Its called "Going Home" a common funeral tune! > > > By PM Matheson ....for some reason I like almost ALL of his slow airs. > > "Going Home' is a theme from Antonin Dvorak's New World Symphony. > I heard the story that Dvorak actually heard it played by a > piper and it's a McCrimmon tune. My understanding is its based upon Lament for the Children. But, in any event, its not surprising that PM Mathieson might attempt to take credit for the tune as well. Once again, Allan MacDonald's great tune "The Plagiarst" comes to mind. - - 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: 20 Oct 1999 15:05:25 GMT From: ccc31807@aol.com (Ccc31807) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: manometer: lost instructions >Does the diameter of the tubing make a difference? No. I may be wrong, and if so, I'll be corrected. The critical measurement is the PRESSURE, which should not change regardless of the diameter of the tube. - - 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, 20 Oct 1999 11:06:36 -0400 From: Chris Hamilton Subject: (bagpipe) Lloyd Bogart - Y'all out there? Hi Lloyd, Your email ( bogart@uwlax.edu ) bounced. How can I contact you? Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chris Hamilton -- ToneCzar@erols.com City of Washington Pipe Band http://toneczar.freeservers.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: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 15:26:07 GMT From: sfupiper@my-deja.com Subject: (bagpipe) Re: The Worlds NO WAY!!! Not Captain Denmark!! Robert N. MacLeod SFUPB In article , "André Mittun" wrote: > Hi Michael (and not sch) > > Sounds to me that you're a kind of SFU-fan ;-)) > > Regards > André > ************************************************* > André Mittun, Andre_Mittun@vip.cybercity.dk > The Heather Pipes & Drums of Copenhagen > http://www.heather.dk > > Michael Ambech wrote in message <7uinuj$cbj$1@news.inet.tele.dk>... > >Anyone got the chance to listen to the cd's from the worlds? What do you > >think? Was the result fair? Being a drummer I wouldn't know much about the > >piping bits (although I think FMM and SFU sound mighty strong), but SFU's > >drumcorps is leading the way in tightness and dynamics, and SFU are way > >ahead in the ensemble department. As for 78th.....well I didn't hear the > 2nd > >cd, sorry! > > > >Schmichael > > > >Denmark > > > > > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy. - - 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, 20 Oct 1999 11:27:26 -0400 From: Chris Hamilton Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Pipe Tune in a movie! On 20 Oct 1999 14:52:30 GMT, dmay@mail.park.edu wrote: >In a previous article, Doug Campbell writes: >> > >>In point of fact, Post-Its were actually invented by Spencer Silver of the >>3M Corporation. Dvorak merely presented the idea to upper management. >>The rest is history. >> >>Doug > >I think you are thinking of a different Dvorak. Antonin Dvorak, composer > of the "New World Symphony," died in Prague in 1904. We were tongue-in-cheeking it ... Everyone knows Romy and Michelle invented Post-Its. Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chris Hamilton -- ToneCzar@erols.com City of Washington Pipe Band http://toneczar.freeservers.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: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 11:33:43 -0400 From: Doug Campbell Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Pipe Tune in a movie! dmay@mail.park.edu wrote: > In a previous article, Doug Campbell writes: > > > > >In point of fact, Post-Its were actually invented by Spencer Silver of the > >3M Corporation. Dvorak merely presented the idea to upper management. > >The rest is history. > > > >Doug > > I think you are thinking of a different Dvorak. Antonin Dvorak, composer > of the "New World Symphony," died in Prague in 1904. Thanks, Dorothy. I was just kidding. Doug - - 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: 20 Oct 1999 16:18:37 GMT From: bdunsire@aol.comNOSPAM (Bob Dunsire) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: SFU Hi Kelly, It is funny (and sad).. And it just made it the Canadian National News ... I quote: "The world champion Simon Fraser University Pipe Band has been told to vacate its practising grounds on Burnaby Mountain after the city received a complaint that said the noise sounded like "screaming cats." go to: http://www.nationalpost.com/ and look up 'Pipe Band'.. you'l find the complete story.. I'm wondering.. there was a single complaint.. after the last band practise at this park, Alison had a solo lesson (at the park) from Jack Lee - was that what put the complainer over the 'edge'.. hummm.. don't tell anyone.. As Ken mentioned.. this is not yet resolved - it is an election year afterall.. Bob D. (having too much fun with web pages, including: http://members.aol.com/bdunsire http://members.aol.com/bagpipeweb (Bagpipe Web Directory - 900+ links) http://www.user.dccnet.com/bcpipers/index.htm (BC Pipers' Association)) - - 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, 20 Oct 1999 16:51:02 GMT From: pmlerwick@wavetech.net (Royce Lerwick) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Dave Brown On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 17:20:03 -0500 (CDT), DClawed@webtv.net (D. Clawed) wrote: >I'm in the MWPBA (Chicago area). I know lots of Browns, but sorry, no >Dave. > Doesn't Dave "Nosey" Brown play in the Stockyard Kilties? And doesn't Dave "Bashin'" Brown play with Midlothian? 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: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 16:55:40 GMT From: pmlerwick@wavetech.net (Royce Lerwick) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Results of San Francisco bagpipe shop references On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 13:52:31 -0400, Doug Campbell wrote: >Yay, I just got the last word! > >No you didn't > >Yes I did > >No you didn't you always say that > >Yes I did and I do not > >You do so and and you did not > >oh yeah? well . . . > > - - -Hey why don't you guys take your bickering private? > >Because he started it. > >No I didn't > >Yes you did you liar > >No I didn't You're the liar > >Did so Am not > >Did not Are so Oh yeah? Wanna make somethin' of it? 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: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 17:23:50 GMT From: pmlerwick@wavetech.net (Royce Lerwick) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: N.A. Pibe Band Association Summit On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 19:46:14 +1700, jd wrote: >Important people at the summit that I know were: Reid Maxwell and >Robert MacNeil of SFU. They know what's up. Obviously some people don't read the NG very closely and some people are ironically impaired so let's just spell it out: 1 John Mitchell has been on a rant for months about what a shitehole Utah is, which has been very blatantly clarified even by himself to include the entire WUSPBA, and thus implicating BC as well, due to the direct connection at Pleasanton and various Seattle Area etc. contest. 2 This is really only a proxy continuation of an even more blatant rant that was picked up regarding my initial log-onto the then mailing list about 4 or 5 years ago by one A Berthoff and several accomplices, from the same region. 3 This is connected directly to the proposition that I could never have had any significant grade 2 or any other band from said regions, and any book written by myself could not have been based on said experience, (so it must all be parroted plagiarism) because there is no significant piping or druming going on outside of the PPBSO and environs, or John, Andrew, et al would have heard about it. 4 Now it turns out, the exact spot for *the* major NA summit on unifying all band associations was chosen to be Utah, probably hosted by those in one or both of my former bands, and this obviously because those people have been central to the formation and organization of the WUSPBA, and are as it happens, therefore fairly significant in their workings in the pipe band world at least as far as this matter goes. 5 Anyone reading any of my early posts, or for that matter, outside of the PPBSO, would already know that one of, if not *the* motivation for forming a mass, united WUSPBA was the intruduction of a serious grade 3 and then 2 pipe band to the state of Utah and region, the cooperative development of contests in that state, and the said band (s) subsequent outreach into the PCPBA and various "dry run" attempts as organizations in the intermountain west. In short, because is was in fact then an ongoing practice for the growing and several bands in Utah and Colorado, Arizona and other mountain states to make the Pacific Coast/California contests, and vice-versa, from Kansas City Missouri to Costa Mesa and Seattle/BC and because such travel, exposure to good playing and competition, so built more and better bands in all these areas, it became a necessity to standardize what was soon a very large geographical games circuit, thus, the WUSPBA. 6 This then is "irony." When the BIG MEETING took place, John and his Ontario greats and their minions, not only didn't know about it, but it was in the very place and hosted by the very people they'd been crapping on for 5 years as being out of touch with the "real piping world" and totally unimportant. So if this happens, it certainly won't be to the credit of the North American visionaries John Mitchell hangs around with. 7 Nyeah nyeah nyeah nyeah nyeah nyeah. Royce My friends in Utah know well that we weren't entirely without disagreement in many matters, but I hope they now have some idea how reserved, reasonable, and mannerly I was in comparison to the environment back on this end of the continent in which I first got indoctrinated to competitive piping. (By the way, that was sort-of an apology for being such an a-hole on occasion for those of you in Utah who may have missed 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: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 17:32:44 GMT From: pmlerwick@wavetech.net (Royce Lerwick) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: J. Mitchell-Who does he think he is? On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 13:51:36 GMT, oshpiper wrote: >In article <19991019184229.03906.00000045@ng-fr1.aol.com>, > dougaldrone@aol.com (DougalDrone) wrote: > >> John is well qualified to say what he does. > >Just as a pig is qualified to roll in its own sh_t. But, then I don't >think anyone is wondering about that anymore. > >Pat Just curious. Would a pig be qualified to roll in another pig's shite, or just his own? 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: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 17:35:01 GMT From: pmlerwick@wavetech.net (Royce Lerwick) Subject: (bagpipe) Re: Bob Sheperd, BID OUT! On 19 Oct 1999 13:41:02 GMT, ccc31807@aol.com (Ccc31807) wrote: >>the only recourse they have is >>simply refuse to play for the man, en masse. Now *that's* a movement >>this NG could do something to foster in real terms. >> >>Royce > >And that will have about as much sucess as John Mitchell's plea to boycott the >World's CD because of their refusal to pay royalties to the performers. > >Still, it's a good idea, and we shouldn't fail to offer good ideas just because >we know they have no chance of suceeding. The thing is, if it's really just a point of honor, then somebody ought to make the honorable move. If not Shepherd, if not the RSPBA, then some big name PM and his band will have to make the statement. 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. 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