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.  :-)   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
    * Origin: Wits' End, Vancouver CANADA (1:153/716)