I've finally posted the audio file I was talking about weeks ago. There is something distinctly different about the timbre. Any ideas what causes that, or...
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david
gunnera4
Aug 5, 2007 4:29 pm
...for our novice pipers. "gunner" "Wullie was having his appendix out and was driving the doctor mad with questions. "Will Ah be able to play the bagpipes...
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hoosierquilt@...
hoosierquilt
Aug 5, 2007 5:30 pm
Why, thank you, Gunner, appreciate it ;-) Can actually play a decent scale, now. Working on trying to prevent catch notes (takes incredible concentration...
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david schnyer
gunnera4
Aug 5, 2007 5:46 pm
ye're quite welcome lassie, at the moment i'm downloading "twa recruiting sergeants" to my music files: "And it's over the mountain and over the Main, Through...
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lindsay davidson
davidsonscho...
Aug 6, 2007 2:22 pm
Hi, I would comment that tunes are not more or less difficult, but more or less intense and dense. Recently, I have been working on the theory of ...
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Forest
forest_of_su...
Aug 8, 2007 5:21 pm
Hi, I have just ordered the modified "Kitchen Pipes" from Oliver Seeler and am looking foward to learning to play. I have done a lot of reading and research...
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Forest
forest_of_su...
Aug 8, 2007 5:45 pm
Hi, I have just ordered the modified "Kitchen Pipes" from Oliver Seeler and am looking foward to learning to play. I have done a lot of reading and research...
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bill kilpatrick
kilpatrickbill
Aug 10, 2007 10:41 pm
how many of you own a kilt and - if you do - would you ever consider performing before an audience (funerals, weddings, etc.) without it?...
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Robert
metalhead1973
Aug 10, 2007 11:25 pm
Hello Bill Ok I'm not a Piper yet but I do own a Kilt. As far as I'm concerned if you get a Pieper for a Wedding of Funeral they should be in a Kilt.. no...
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Hugh P. Boyle
hughpboyle
Aug 11, 2007 12:30 am
I believe if you are piping for a group as a paid performer they are expecting to see a kilted piper. While we'd like to believe the pipes themselves are...
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Pam Brownlee
brownleep
Aug 11, 2007 1:42 am
It's a point my husband (a piper) often makes when he is contacted play a wedding. Sometimes the caller will expect to get a piper for something like $25,...
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kaaber777
Aug 11, 2007 2:46 am
Regarding kilts. While most people equate pipers with kilts it is perfectly "kosher" to wear tartan trews rather than a kilt. Not all pipers are Highlanders...
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bill kilpatrick
kilpatrickbill
Aug 11, 2007 7:20 am
thanks everyone. i've just paid for - but not yet received - a set of smallpipes and the first thing i did after that was start searching on-line for a kilt....
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jagcatsau
Aug 11, 2007 7:40 am
I live in Brisbane (Australia) and fairly hire for functions. I would normally ask what attire the hirer would request, having no 1 dress to simplest country....
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jagcatsau
Aug 11, 2007 7:41 am
I have known this tune, along with Siege of Delhi for the last 50 years. In my view Aussie Ladies is easier than Siege of Delhi, particularly as a band tune...
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Gary Krueger
garytherev
Aug 11, 2007 12:08 pm
I have done that. I've discovered that wearing a kilt doesn't improve my playing much at all. I have never done a funeral or wedding without a kilt, but...
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Gary Krueger
garytherev
Aug 11, 2007 12:29 pm
I competed with Siege as a novice (grade 5) several years ago. Took prizes with that tune. (Sadly never a 1st. and since going to grade 4, no prizes...
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bill kilpatrick
kilpatrickbill
Aug 12, 2007 9:10 pm
do any of you play other instruments?...
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Forest
forest_of_su...
Aug 12, 2007 9:43 pm
... I played the flute in highschool. I haven't played it much in recent years but my fingers have enough memory of it to make it a little tricky learning the...
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piper
piper_for_hire
Aug 12, 2007 9:50 pm
I'm pretty into music - I also play: cello classical guitar electric bass (in a cover band - lame, I know) uilleann pipes piano oh .. and I sing too. The next...
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hoosierquilt@...
hoosierquilt
Aug 12, 2007 9:51 pm
Yup, piano and guitar. So I'm getting away from the "pushing down" to make a sound, versus the lifting up of fingers. In a message dated 8/12/2007 5:12:21...
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Bob
bobnorris2002
Aug 12, 2007 9:57 pm
Aye, Pipes, Small pipes, guitar, whistle, English Concertina and a wee bit of snare drumming :)...
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david schnyer
gunnera4
Aug 12, 2007 11:20 pm
i don't play anything, but i enjoy listening to a broad range of music across several genre, i've even got a few steam calliope tapes stashed away in my...
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Rob
ky_2i0
Aug 13, 2007 2:52 am
Well I lived in South-Western Pwnnsylvania for my first six years of school. The kids that wanted to could start in the school band in the forth grade. In...
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Jean Hayes
mountainpiper
Aug 13, 2007 3:55 pm
Sorry, I'm out of the loop this year.... Have the Worlds taken place, or is it this next weekend? Thanks. Jean ...
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Jean Hayes
mountainpiper
Aug 13, 2007 4:01 pm
... "kosher" to wear tartan trews ********* Google aside, trews are technical history. The public expects a kilt. I am often asked "Are your going to wear a...
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Jean Hayes
mountainpiper
Aug 13, 2007 4:32 pm
... ********** Sounds like a moot question for a bunch of pipers!! ... ************ Funerals, wedding - never! Etc - depends. I play in civvies at our annual...
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Forest Butera
forest_of_su...
Aug 13, 2007 4:54 pm
I have only worn a great kilt in the past as part of a Rennaisance festival gig in which I demonstrated spinning and weaving as done in Scotland in the 16th...
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John Walsh
dittogunner
Aug 13, 2007 5:09 pm
Grade 1 1st Field Marshal Montgomery (Northern Ireland) 2nd Simon Fraser University (Canada) 3rd House of Edgar-Shotts & Dykehead (Scotland) For the full story...
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david schnyer
gunnera4
Aug 13, 2007 5:31 pm
jean, that sounds like an evening i'd have enjoyed. "gunner" ____________________________________________________________________________________ Choose the...
