Thursday, May 6, 2021

Scottish crossbill (Loxia scotica): Topical (group) Lessons, or Individual Bagpiping Lessons ~ Re: Order Confirmation (9588-327982) - Stuart Liddell Piping :) * * playing the Scottish Small Pipes these days (with parallels to the practice chanter), and am interested to learn how your Topicals work (learning most 'lyrical' Piobaireachd?, eg Desperate Battle of the Birds for me; how to play expressively like you do :); questions even about band playing, but in this case a Scottish Country Dance band in Berkeley, with Small Pipes?; exploring playing also with the SSP baritone drone?; even improvising or riffing with Piobaireachd with other music eg Allman Bros in 1973, very experimentally, and even with this with Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning in the future :); real, real time online music-making - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/magnolia.html ; conversation, thinking & networking with the group in the lessons?; are recordings of these lessons possible, for future learning, possibly please?). I'm glad to have recorded, experimentally too, my first Scottish small pipes' light music album in December of 2020 - http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm - https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/ - (all on the A mixolydian chanter, although I have and play the D mix and B flat mix SSP chanters). Piobaireachd possibly to begin, or?


Topicals ~

Topical (group) Lessons, or Individual Bagpiping Lessons 

Re: Order Confirmation (9588-327982) - Stuart Liddell Piping :)


Dear Stuart, 

Thank you so much for these bagpiping Topical Lessons' opportunities. I'm very grateful for the opportunity to learn from you. I mentioned the dates of MWF next week (of May 10, 2021) at 5pm Scotland time (which may be 9am Pacific Time in the SF Bay Area), when I registered, but Tuesdays and Thursdays could work as well (and Mondays might not be so good after all, since I hold a WUaS News and Q&A in the hour after this possible Topical time), and other times would be possible too at your convenience. 

I'm playing the Scottish Small Pipes these days (with parallels to the practice chanter), and am interested to learn how your Topicals work (learning most 'lyrical' Piobaireachd?, eg Desperate Battle of the Birds for me; how to play expressively like you do :); questions even about band playing, but in this case a Scottish Country Dance band in Berkeley, with Small Pipes?; exploring playing also with the SSP baritone drone?; even improvising or riffing with Piobaireachd with other music eg Allman Bros in 1973, very experimentally, and even with this with Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning in the future :); real, real time online music-making - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/magnolia.html ; conversation, thinking & networking with the group in the lessons?; are recordings of these lessons possible, for future learning, possibly please?). I'm glad to have recorded, experimentally too, my first Scottish small pipes' light music album in December of 2020 - http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm - https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/ - (all on the A mixolydian chanter, although I have and play the D mix and B flat mix SSP chanters). Piobaireachd possibly to begin, or? 

(I've lived in Edinburgh for 2 full years, in 1977-78 and in 2003-04 studying at Fettes College and the University of Edinburgh in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies, so am familiar from the inside a bit with Scottish culture). And I see that you're familiar with North America west coast culture too, having played with the Simon Fraser University pipe band for many years. 

Thank you so much, Stuart! Am very appreciative of your extraordinary piping, and I look forward very much to learning from you.

Best regards, 
Scott


(World Univ & Sch - WUaS - is a project I'm developing, and here are some wiki piping 'schools' as part of this: 
Piobaireachd ~

Subject ~ 



On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 5:42 PM Stuart Liddell <noreply@webfactorysite.co.uk> wrote:
Thank you for your order. You can view and print your order here

 http://www.stuartliddell.com/invoice.php?s=9588&id=327982&t=1620002446



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- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 


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Dear Scott, 

Thank you very kindly for purchasing a topical lesson online.

You have caught me off guard a little as things are still settling on the website in terms of which direction I’d like to take it. 

I was intending running monthly sessions at the end of each month which would be announced on the news section.  They would be very general and individual topics such as tuning, embellishments, perhaps a particular tune, practice techniques, etc along with some kind of handout. 

Your request is probably a bit more personalised and would likely be more beneficial as a one to one lesson. 

I would be happy to meet up on zoom for half an hour at one of the times you suggest or perhaps you would like to suggest a generalised topic that would be beneficial to yourself and others and go with a group session at the end of the month? 

Either way, please do let me know and thank you again. 

Best wishes, 

Stuart

https://www.stuartliddell.com/about


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Thank you, Stuart,


Would both possibly be possible, please - a lesson early in the month, and a topical as you describe toward the end of the month? I recently read something in a piping article about teacher-student relationships, and that someone went to their teacher for 25 years or so. I would learn so much from you and your virtuosic bagpipe playing if this could develop. 

How would Tuesday, 5/11/21, Wednesday,, 5/12 or Thursday, 5/13, for 30 minutes next week at 5pm Scotland time work for you? Thank you. 

Kind regards, Scott



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Scottish Country Dancing band (Berkeley)

[RSCDS Berkeley] dancing again?


Dear Bruce, All,

Regarding coronavirus gene vaccinations, and your Scottish Country Dance Berkeley survey, Bruce, I've read that one can't choose the brand of one's vaccine at Kaiser Permanente, for ex., and with all the various Vaccines creating blood clots, death, brain injuries, etc  - and that they didn't go through rigorous FDA clinical trials in the US, for ex., before administration by the medical profession, - I found this Swedish newspaper article about Denmark eye opening (for 2 other countries' perspectives, and regarding kinds of unscientific unthinking authoritarianism too) ...

"Live. Danes must voluntarily choose to take abolished vaccines "


(It's so difficult as a prospective concerned scientist to get such data of vaccine injuries in the US, I'd think too. Caveat emptor, and philosophical skepticism regarding coronavirus genetics and vaccines?)

Yay, for virtual SCD dancing and music-making ? The lack of widespread testing too, in the SF Bay Area (that I've observed), makes me think the genes for SarsCoV2 have done a major disappearing act :)

I'd think that, however, the Coronavirus gene meme (replicating cultural unit) in the internet News' media could be being used for other reasons, like protecting victims -  (and these others, plus more reasons in blog over past 13 months) http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html?m=0 - and that, for example, abolishing (in a Friendly Quaker sense, re slavery, - exactly too) and not just for significantly lessening the illegal sex industry, as part of this, - could have much benefit (to protect the innocent particularly - and regarding effective law enforcement esp.). 

I haven't heard of any (of 200) countries enacting laws requiring vaccination, of unscientifically-tested vaccines either. But I bet they're out there ... Anyone?

I signed up for a Topical Lesson with PM Stuart Liddell ... Will see if there's an opportunity to ask questions about band music besides multi-GHB bands. 

All clear to dance? :)
Scott

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1284701015317417985?s=20



-- 
- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 


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Dear Bruce, All,


Am glad to have heard back from the extraordinary piper and great musician PM Stuart Liddell, and regarding his availability for lessons (below). Yay!  I asked these questions (below too).

Taking the long view of lessons, and Stuart's virtuosity ... (and here's a new Harvard Medical School video about aging reversal genetic drug therapies - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/05/kakadu-national-park-australia-aging.html) ... how to engage Stuart idea-wise for Scottish Country 'dancing again' - to bring further jubilation to our Open Band St. Clement's dancers ?:) (Way far out of the box,  could see adapting Piobaireachd with the Allman Brothers '73 - 
https://youtu.be/DNAmXz8kc6I - with artificial intelligence and machine learning, as it might learn from and adapt the energy and keys of this music for even riffing with Piobaireachd - and especially regarding Bo Diddley and the tune before .... for a very different kind of Scottish Country Rock and Roll Piobaireachd Dancing :) ... but that his mother played in a Ceileidh band "The Fine Folk," and that Stuart does remarkable things with teaching bands to play together regarding too his wise 

The Ascension of Inveraray & District Pipe Band - 2004-2013
as well as his wise, too, - 

'Piping The Way - Stuart Liddell West Highland Way Bagpipe Film' - 
https://youtu.be/p1GR8qQulx4 - am inclined to learn a bit from him. Thoughts, questions, suggestions, ideas, 'dancing again'-wise? :)
 
Scott
(PS Linda Henderson - what's the historical memory you carry in you from the town of North Berwick, Scotland regarding - 
"Here, but no longer, Englishmen! This is the border that could mean the end of the whole of Britain."
https://www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/56dzRe/hit-men-ikke-lenger-engelskmenn - in Norwegian, but try Google Translate in Chrome for the beginning of this ... 
and Scottish Independence? ... or Freedom for Scotland? ... the freedom word being potent democratically around the world :)



From Stuart: 
Dear Scott, 

Thank you very kindly for purchasing a topical lesson online.

You have caught me off guard a little as things are still settling on the website in terms of which direction I’d like to take it. 

I was intending running monthly sessions at the end of each month which would be announced on the news section.  They would be very general and individual topics such as tuning, embellishments, perhaps a particular tune, practice techniques, etc along with some kind of handout. 

Your request is probably a bit more personalised and would likely be more beneficial as a one to one lesson. 

I would be happy to meet up on zoom for half an hour at one of the times you suggest or perhaps you would like to suggest a generalised topic that would be beneficial to yourself and others and go with a group session at the end of the month? 

Either way, please do let me know and thank you again. 

Best wishes, 

Stuart




Dear Stuart, 

Thank you so much for these bagpiping Topical Lessons' opportunities. I'm very grateful for the opportunity to learn from you. I mentioned the dates of MWF next week (of May 10, 2021) at 5pm Scotland time (which may be 9am Pacific Time in the SF Bay Area), when I registered, but Tuesdays and Thursdays could work as well (and Mondays might not be so good after all, since I hold a WUaS News and Q&A in the hour after this possible Topical time), and other times would be possible too at your convenience. 

I'm playing the Scottish Small Pipes these days (with parallels to the practice chanter), and am interested to learn how your Topicals work (learning most 'lyrical' Piobaireachd?, eg Desperate Battle of the Birds for me; how to play expressively like you do :); questions even about band playing, but in this case a Scottish Country Dance band in Berkeley, with Small Pipes?; exploring playing also with the SSP baritone drone?; even improvising or riffing with Piobaireachd with other music eg Allman Bros in 1973, very experimentally, and even with this with Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning in the future :); real, real time online music-making - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/magnolia.html ; conversation, thinking & networking with the group in the lessons?; are recordings of these lessons possible, for future learning, possibly please?). I'm glad to have recorded, experimentally too, my first Scottish small pipes' light music album in December of 2020 - http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm - https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/ - (all on the A mixolydian chanter, although I have and play the D mix and B flat mix SSP chanters). Piobaireachd possibly to begin, or? 

(I've lived in Edinburgh for 2 full years, in 1977-78 and in 2003-04 studying at Fettes College and the University of Edinburgh in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies, so am familiar from the inside a bit with Scottish culture). And I see that you're familiar with North America west coast culture too, having played with the Simon Fraser University pipe band for many years. 

Thank you so much, Stuart! Am very appreciative of your extraordinary piping, and I look forward very much to learning from you.

Best regards, 
Scott


(World Univ & Sch - WUaS - is a project I'm developing, and here are some wiki piping 'schools' as part of this: 




On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 5:42 PM Stuart Liddell <noreply@webfactorysite.co.uk> wrote:


-- 
- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 




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