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- Thu Dec 27, 2007 4:56 pm
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: The Winter Gales
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The Winter Gales
This morning, I looked out and the fierce gale was evident from the battering of the trees in view. The wind was very blustery and quite a lot of debris was being scattered about. I had to take the dog out in this and even he was not impressed with the weather. A few hours after I came in, I was aga...
- Thu Dec 27, 2007 1:22 pm
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: One day in Inverness!
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- Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:39 pm
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: the simple flow of air
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the simple flow of air
Bagpiping may, to the spectator, appear rather complex. Yet, with a continuous breath of air into a resevoir, channelled to very simple vibrating media, such thunderous sound is released. Quite simple really, don't you think? Yet again, the compexity is in the subtle manipulation of the limitation o...
- Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:25 am
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: The Digital Age - jig
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The Digital Age - jig
Whatever we think of the modernity of the lives we live today, it is undoubtedly the age of all things digital - and how isolated we feel when we lose the use of just one of them.
- Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:16 pm
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: "Lee's Hot Winda" Hornpipe
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- Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:16 pm
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: "Lee's Hot Winda" Hornpipe
- Replies: 14
- Views: 19272
- Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:15 pm
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: "Lee's Hot Winda" Hornpipe
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- Wed May 02, 2007 3:33 pm
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: Eck Static! No way!
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Eck Static! No way!
Eck is our new driver with the P&D's - and static he will never be. Don't make him laugh, he's an audible and physical hazard - straight up,.
- Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:54 am
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: Updated - finished
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Updated - finished
Someone asked if this tune was finished with just the two parts. I said I was making sure that the 3rd and 4th didn't spoil the effect. I hope I have now achieved a balance
- Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:42 pm
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: Very unpredictable/ changeable
- Replies: 2
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- Sun Jan 14, 2007 7:49 pm
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: Inspiration from a photo
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5491
- Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:07 pm
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: A recent trip to France
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A recent trip to France
In November 2006, my band (Black Watch Army Cadet Force Pipes & Drums) were invited to France to play for some of the Rememberance day parades & take in a few battlefield tours and do a wee bit PR with the locals of Valenciennes. The trip was memorablefor us all for many different reasons. I wrote a...
- Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:52 pm
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: There's a song here, or maybe not.
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There's a song here, or maybe not.
I remember - vaguely - of Val Doonican singing about a spider that came down and sat beside somebody, who proceeded to swallow the spider and then the spider wriggled inside her, or something just as zany- told you it was vague. Then I think he sang about the nursery rhyme 'Old woman who lived in a ...
- Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:32 am
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: Inspiration from a photo
- Replies: 2
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Inspiration from a photo
I took this photo - less resolution for the website - as one of the first photos from my new digital camera in 2004. I was always hankering to write a tune about it and here it is
- Sun Dec 31, 2006 4:01 pm
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: Very unpredictable/ changeable
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Very unpredictable/ changeable
Fickle means a lot of things - Unpredictable, Changeable, Erratic, Indecisive. Gae in Scots means Very, so Gae Fickle - Very Changeable or very Erratic. While this jig is far from indecisive, I think the idea of Fickleness is portrayed. And Gae Fickle Sounds a lot nicer than Very Unpredictable, eh? ...