Subj : Musical Glossary...  1B.
To   : James Bradley
From : Ardith Hinton
Date : Fri Mar 02 2018 02:36:56

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. <G>


         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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