Saturday, December 5, 2020

Strobilanthes kunthiana: EMERGING Scottish Small Pipes' 'Honey in the Bag' album ... * Just found this blog post - https://pteditor.blogspot.com/2010_04_25_archive.html?m=1 - re Stuart Liddell's drumming ... He's a 'self-learner' - a self-taught learner in so many ways (and in a Scottish cultural context, as a Scot) - which he's done on his own, and a teacher (in this blog post), in so many ways too, and he's had a lot of lessons too I'm sure ... and he makes interesting and many connections (re Yo-Yo Ma & Wynton Marsalis too:) * * * "Doing the Double" - or "Did the Double" re John MacFadyen winning the 2 top piping prizes in Scotland in one year, could be somehow similar to WUaS having created 2 legal entities in California - the non-profit in CA (and 501 c 3 federally) World University and School, and the 2) for profit general stock company the WUaS Corporation, in California) - a kind of different "Doing the Double" :)


Big bagpiping web site update as well ... http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm

 

... and EMERGING Scottish Small Pipes' 

'Honey in the Bag' album ... 

scott macleod's

honey in the bag
... new scottish small piping album ... https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/ ...



scottish small piping

Scott MacLeod is a musician from the SF Bay Area ~ ScottMacLeod.com/piping.htm. His first album, 'Honey in the Bag,' seeks to expressively evoke the harmonious Scottish Small Pipes' sweetness in playing transcendent ceòl beag, or light music. He is the founder & president of free-to-students' World University & School, with its Scottish Small Piping  WIKI  subject for open teaching and learning.



  ~ and on 1st fridays of the month ~ we’re (bandcamp) waiving our revenue share again.



'Honey in the Bag'

... NEW Scottish Small Piping ALBUM ... https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/ ...


... bagpiping web site update as well ... http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm ... 



 


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A musician
@ScottMacLeod
 from the #SFBayArea ~ http://ScottMacLeod.com/piping.htm. His first album, '#HoneyInTheBag,' seeks to expressively evoke the sweet harmonious #ScottishSmallPipes in playing transcendent ceòl beag, or light music. He's founder & president of free
@WorldUnivAndSch
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https://twitter.com/BallindallochC/status/984131916969467905?s=20

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Hi Taylor,

Just found this blog post -
re Stuart Liddell's drumming ... He's a 'self-learner' - a self-taught learner in so many ways (and in a Scottish cultural context, as a Scot) - which he's done on his own, and a teacher (in this blog post), in so many ways too, and he's had a lot of lessons too I'm sure ... and he makes interesting and many connections (re Ma & Marsalis too:) ... 


And tweeted about the blog post -

"with Stuart Liddell ... talented guy he is. He told me all about his job as a piano tuner & how it helped his pipe tuning & also the fact that he is virtually a self taught drummer coming 12th out of 13 at the All Ireland" https://t.co/Ei8bkQl09v>#EWVWG





Here's this 'Piping the Way' video again - a team building exercise re Scottish language/culture, and a fund raiser too and Stuart lived in British Columbia for 10-15 years playing with the Simon Fraser University pipe band :)

Piping the Way - Stuart Liddell  West Highland Way Bagpipe Film 

Stuart's also represented or portrayed as a teacher in this film ... 

Cheers, 
Scott
I'd welcome any thoughts you might have about these web sites ...



What does Catherine Ashcroft do uniquely in these two beautiful tunes on Uilleann pipes, I'm asking myself ...


The emotion machine hashtag just popped up on Twitter too ~

How is this piping by Catherine an expression of music as an emotion machine idea? What are it's techniques (re M&M even?)? (Yogini Angela Farmer explores feeling in far-reaching and very enjoyable ~and also going into the dark spaces / negative emotions for learning too ~✓ ways too:)

 
A thought last night re Scottish bagpipes and their accompaniment instrument of choice, Scottish drums ... Scottish Pipes are the lead instrument 

Here the 2 tablas are the lead instrument and there's a reedy sounding instrument in background as accompaniment :) 
https://twitter.com/tablajedi/status/1325833825516187650?s=19

How to learn further how to play lead Jerry Garcia with Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann in Grateful Dead??? :)

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- Scott MacLeod


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HI Taylor, 


Some further learning from the Web ~

I think playing and recording the rest of my 38 tunes for 'Honey in the Bag' with an expressiveness just like Catherine's slow and fast tunes would be the ticket :)

Scott




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November 3, 2020


Hi Taylor, 

Wow, in seeking out good Piobaireachd recordings for

The Company's Lament

Mackintosh's Banner

Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry

Glengarry's Lament


I had some wow experiences yesterday evening, all a little piping ethnomusicologically as well - 

Just came upon: 
Joyce MacFarlane, based in Pittsburgh, PA, in the mid-1970s, and who was my 2nd piping teacher, and this recent picture of JOYCE (in Scotland with her husband Jimmy McIntosh, also of Pgh) brought me 'there' in some time travel, here - 

Jimmy McIntosh, DR’s Scrapbook and the Day John MacFadyen Did the Double

And then John MacFadyen in this same article was a teacher at a College of Piping summer camp near the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games in NC for a summer or two, thanks to Sandy Jones bringing him over from Scotland -


(Drawing parallels, I think "Doing the Double" - or "Did the Double" re John MacFadyen winning the 2 top piping prizes in Scotland in one year, could be somehow similar to WUaS having created 2 legal entities in California - the non-profit in CA (and 501 c 3 federally) World University and School, and the 2) for profit general stock company the WUaS Corporation, in California) - a kind of different "Doing the Double" :)

 "John had pulled off the double, winning the Clasp and Gold Medal at the same meeting"

"winning both the Gold Medal competition and the Clasp at the Northern Meeting"

(Jimmy McIntosh's brogue, as you'll hear in another "Alasdair Dearg" email thread I'll send you, is very broad, a bit hard to understand, and he's lived in Pgh PA for decades, having left Scotland :))


John MacFadyen - 
http://schoolofpiping.com/photo_album/Pipers%20of%20Past%20Years%20©/slides/john-macfadyen.html
And here's a picture of John MacFadyen from the cover of his 1st volume of Bagpipe Tunes - 
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/d4/1c/e0/d41ce09c90a14b18956e59553114749f.jpg and https://www.pinterest.com/pin/196047390014890089/ - some of which I've shared with you, and many of which I find very 'lyrical.'


And something further about John MacFadyen - https://www.pipesdrums.com/tag/john-macfadyen/



Ed Krintz was my first piping teacher, and thanks to Sandy Jones, both here:
Ed Krintz has been a performer of the highland bagpipe for over 51 years, and has studied under P/M Sandy Jones, James MacIntosh, and the late John MacFadyen. He is a panel adjudicator for the EUSPBA, and currently teaches piping in the Charlotte, NC area.
http://www.naapd.org/instructors.php
https://www.timmyhordstudio.com/piping
http://www.pipebandsnc.com/brief-band-histories/


And Stuart Liddell is a teacher of mine in a sense too, and re - 

Am liking how Stuart Liddell kind of becomes ONE with his pipes ... and then soars with high very rhythmic 'flight' flying directly into the sun or the light :)

Stuart Liddell - Lunchtime Recital 2010: 4 of 8

https://youtu.be/e7zvKbl1R54

15 Solo Stuart Liddell Inverary Pipe Band 2013 Royal Concert Hall

At 5:20 is about as free as he gets ... 
Stuart Liddell - Lunchtime Recital 2010: 5 of 8


Uniquely brilliant Stuart Liddell musical expressiveness ... and check out Gordon Duncan for other unique and brilliant Bagpiping musical expressiveness ... they've both created their own sound ..

Just some thoughts about previous bagpiping teachers - wow - and NOW :)

Scott


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- Scott MacLeod






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