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12275 bill kilpatrick
kilpatrickbill Send Email
Feb 1, 2007
9:26 am
are there exercises to improve nimbleness in the fingers of the lefthand?...
12276 David T. Helmers
tristandewar... Send Email
Feb 1, 2007
4:10 pm
Here's the link to R.J. Hampton's ebay store: http://stores.ebay.com/Hampton-Bagpipes He doesn't currently have any of the style I bought up for sale. I bought...
12277 Jori Chisholm
jlance_20002000 Send Email
Feb 1, 2007
5:19 pm
I believe the the tune you are looking for is The Blue Cloud. It is published in Adam Quinn's book. It was written about Anthony Kerr's old blue car that...
12278 Jori Chisholm
jlance_20002000 Send Email
Feb 1, 2007
5:22 pm
I have an exercise specifically for the left hand and the thumb gracenote on the Free Downloads page of my website: ...
12279 bill kilpatrick
kilpatrickbill Send Email
Feb 1, 2007
5:41 pm
thanks david - hampton's pipes look great and sooo afordable ... i'll report on my latest aquisition when it arrives. ciao from italy - bill...
12280 bill kilpatrick
kilpatrickbill Send Email
Feb 1, 2007
5:54 pm
thank you jori - please excuse my ignorance in asking for the exercises - i play german pipes with a record (blockflote-ish) fingering pattern and the E-F-E...
12281 Pam Brownlee
brownleep Send Email
Feb 1, 2007
9:19 pm
Thank you! I guess the groom got the name slightly wrong. I am familiar with that tune -- have the "Down Under" CD by SFU. This will be a good excuse to buy...
12282 boatmoon21 Send Email Feb 2, 2007
4:19 pm
I stumbled across this tune on the web a year or so ago, and have lost the link. Do any of know the link, or who wrote it? Seems as if it was one of the Brit...
12283 ali fra
happyaliruth Send Email
Feb 2, 2007
4:48 pm
Hi , it is in the tune files , I have just checked . It was not composed by any Brit unit . It was if I remember composed by Will Melon. The piper of Fallujah...
12284 david schnyer
gunnera4 Send Email
Feb 2, 2007
4:51 pm
"Seems as if it was one of the Brit units, maybe the Irish Rangers. Don" ... actually it was a united states marine sergeant, and as it happens a black man....
12285 Emmet Bondurant
piobbear Send Email
Feb 2, 2007
4:52 pm
It's in our Files/Tunes folder. It was written by a member of this board, in reference to 1st Sgt Dwayne Farr, USMC, who was deployed in Fallujah. The Royal...
12286 david schnyer
gunnera4 Send Email
Feb 2, 2007
5:50 pm
the mention of thge royal irish rangers reminds me, i've got "rangers of iraq" as an mp3 in my files. i don't have the music for it but it might be worth...
12287 Emmet Bondurant
piobbear Send Email
Feb 2, 2007
7:38 pm
It's now in the Files/Tunes folder, too....
12288 david schnyer
gunnera4 Send Email
Feb 2, 2007
9:13 pm
outstanding emmet, fast work. i went looking for it intending to post a url but got nothing on google. "gunner" ...
12289 Gregor MacGregor
themacgregorlll Send Email
Feb 3, 2007
1:23 am
Do you have an exercise on how to bend the 'C' like in Blue Cloud? Jori Chisholm <jori@...> wrote: I have an exercise specifically for...
12290 Bobby Hickson "R...
redneckpiper1 Send Email
Feb 4, 2007
1:06 am
That tune was originally written by Will Mellon, but after several people began modifying it and reposting it, he took down the original, so what you see there...
12291 bill kilpatrick
kilpatrickbill Send Email
Feb 5, 2007
6:15 am
my schaferpfeife arrived and for the 20 min. or so that i played it before destroying the reed entirely ... it was great! wolfgand put some gunk in the bag to...
12292 David T. Helmers
tristandewar... Send Email
Feb 5, 2007
9:34 pm
Wow! That's a pretty expensive reed. What kind of reed did he give you for the drone? I agree with you that rosewood has gotten a bad press. It can have a ...
12293 Jori Chisholm
jlance_20002000 Send Email
Feb 6, 2007
5:36 am
... It's quite easy to do! 1. Play B 2. Instead of lifting the middle finger off the hole, straighten your finger and slide it off the hole. Here's a video! ...
12294 bill kilpatrick
kilpatrickbill Send Email
Feb 7, 2007
8:29 am
i know ... reeds are a complete mystery. the thought of paying that much for what appears to be so little disappears when i think of making one myself. i'll...
12295 David T. Helmers
tristandewar... Send Email
Feb 7, 2007
9:27 pm
... that much for what ... myself. i'll probably be able ... plastic, two-blade ... barrel-shaped reeds ... pipes every now and ... useless for others - ... ...
12296 Pam Brownlee
brownleep Send Email
Feb 8, 2007
12:06 am
Anyone know any Air Force tunes written for bagpipes? My husband is playing a military wedding ceremony, and has been asked to include something generally...
12297 Ian
acadianpiper Send Email
Feb 8, 2007
12:23 am
The RCAF march past is the 4/4 "Wings". It is often played along with Scotland the Brave. Ian. ... playing ... as the...
12298 david schnyer
gunnera4 Send Email
Feb 8, 2007
3:54 am
can't help you there, the only air force songs i know are the rowdy ones, e.g. "i wanted wings", "save a fighter pilot's a**" etc. and those aren't what's...
12299 Pam Brownlee
brownleep Send Email
Feb 8, 2007
3:59 am
Weeeeelllllll...if we didn't tell them the names and just played the tunes... My brother in law used to play organ for weddings a lot -- his favorite tune for...
12300 Jori Chisholm
jlance_20002000 Send Email
Feb 8, 2007
7:19 pm
I've got a couple sets of American tunes which I like to call The All- America Set. Some might be good for military events: America the Beautiful, Marine...
12301 Jean Hayes
mountainpiper Send Email
Feb 8, 2007
8:54 pm
... *************** At first this crossed my mind. Then I decided that the Air Force would rather not have the Marine's Hymn at their event. And then I thought...
12302 Jean Hayes
mountainpiper Send Email
Feb 8, 2007
8:58 pm
... ************ Sorry, I can't hear (in my head) this tune on the pipes. With chromatics and off- the- pipes notes... God Bless America is not too bad though....
12303 tuba_bagpiper Send Email Feb 9, 2007
2:20 am
I'm interested in going to a piping camp this summer. Could you recommend some? I need to be able to lodge there, and i can't go anywhere outside of north...
12304 John Howland
john_howland Send Email
Feb 9, 2007
3:06 am
Long ago, I went to one at Eastern Kentucky University. It was taught by Duncan Johnstone. Beautiful campus, stayed at the dorms really cheap. good time all...
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