Hi again, James!  This is a continuation of my previous message to you:

[re chords]
JB>  L!!! Bagpipers do it by just blowing hard.


         Well... I suppose they might have to blow hard initially to fill
the bladder with air, but AFAIK it's the drones which supply the
"harmony".  From the standpoint of a clarinet player one of the
scary things about bagpipes is that the drones & the reed seem to do
their own thing (almost) independently. Another is that while I would put
more air into my instrument to produce more volume, bagpipe players seem to
do it when the bladder is about to run out of air.  I inhale when my lungs
are about to run out of air.  As a member of the audience you'd realize
that I do it at the end of a phrase or whatever... but for me watching a
piper is like watching a person speaking a foreign language with dubbing in
English.  I can't reconcile what I see with what I hear.  :-)



JB>  "That drummer can't keep time." even if it *was* the
JB>  keyboardist that initiated the tempo shift. 


         In our community band it's usually the trumpets or the flutes or
the saxes... never the clarinets!  But as John Bradshaw has pointed out,
blame is like a hot potato which everybody is trying to pass on to somebody
else.  ;-)



JB>  George Clinton said it best. In a mumble, "Whatever
JB>  you say - and we tried - Rap music brought blacks and
JB>  whites together for better or worse."


         So did jazz.  When I was learning to play the clarinet, people often
asked "Why do you want to play the clarinet?  That's a boy's
instrument!"  By
the time I'd graduated from university it was a girl's instrument.  To me the
whims of fashion are of no great concern... but the behaviour of human beings
in groups is very intriguing.  Among professional musicians & their fans such
trivia as gender & skin colour are irrelevant from where I sit.  Dallas often
played in mostly black groups to mostly white *adult* audiences.  I wonder if
these suburban kids relate to rap music because their parents don't... [BEG].



JB>  A few Holloweens ago,
           |I have heard many people pronounce it that way
           recently, but where I come from it's AKA All
           Hallows' Eve... the day before All Saints' Day.
           For those of us whose grandparents were farmers
           "hallow" rhymes with "fallow" &
"tallow".  :-))



JB>  I was doling out the treats to a few late stragglers
JB>  when a car drove by thumpin' and bumpin' so loud I
JB>  could hear something in the trunk rattling. I asked the
JB>  girls what it must sound like *inside* that vehicle if
JB>  it sounds so bad from here.


         Well done!  Now I'm curious as to the response.  When I had students
in grade eight who informed me they didn't like anything except rock music, I
figured that was all they knew.  After being exposed to a variety of stuff in
my class a few of them admitted they also enjoyed other genres at times.  :-)




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