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Scott MacLeod is a musician from the SF Bay Area ~ ScottMacLeod.com/piping.htm. His first album, 'Honey in the Bag,' seeks to expressively evoke the harmonious Scottish Small Pipes' sweetness in playing transcendent ceòl beag, or light music. He is the founder & president of free-to-students' World University & School, with its Scottish Small Piping WIKI subject for open teaching and learning.
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'Honey in the Bag'
... NEW Scottish Small Piping ALBUM ... https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/ ...
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Hi Taylor,
Just found this blog post -
re Stuart Liddell's drumming ... He's a 'self-learner' - a self-taught learner in so many ways (and in a Scottish cultural context, as a Scot) - which he's done on his own, and a teacher (in this blog post), in so many ways too, and he's had a lot of lessons too I'm sure ... and he makes interesting and many connections (re Ma & Marsalis too:) ...
And tweeted about the blog post -
"with Stuart Liddell ... talented guy he is. He told me all about his job as a piano tuner & how it helped his pipe tuning & also the fact that he is virtually a self taught drummer coming 12th out of 13 at the All Ireland"
https://t.co/Ei8bkQl09v>#EWVWG
Here's this 'Piping the Way' video again - a team building exercise re Scottish language/culture, and a fund raiser too and Stuart lived in British Columbia for 10-15 years playing with the Simon Fraser University pipe band :)
Piping the Way - Stuart Liddell West Highland Way Bagpipe Film
Stuart's also represented or portrayed as a teacher in this film ...
Cheers,
Scott
I'd welcome any thoughts you might have about these web sites ...
What does Catherine Ashcroft do uniquely in these two beautiful tunes on Uilleann pipes, I'm asking myself ...
The emotion machine hashtag just popped up on Twitter too ~
How is this piping by Catherine an expression of music as an emotion machine idea? What are it's techniques (re M&M even?)? (Yogini Angela Farmer explores feeling in far-reaching and very enjoyable ~and also going into the dark spaces / negative emotions for learning too ~✓ ways too:)
A thought last night re Scottish bagpipes and their accompaniment instrument of choice, Scottish drums ... Scottish Pipes are the lead instrument
Here the 2 tablas are the lead instrument and there's a reedy sounding instrument in background as accompaniment :)
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HI Taylor,
Some further learning from the Web ~
I think playing and recording the rest of my 38 tunes for 'Honey in the Bag' with an expressiveness just like Catherine's slow and fast tunes would be the ticket :)
Scott
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November 3, 2020
Hi Taylor,
Wow, in seeking out good Piobaireachd recordings for
The Company's Lament
Mackintosh's Banner
Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry
Glengarry's Lament
I had some wow experiences yesterday evening, all a little piping ethnomusicological as well -
Just came upon:
Joyce MacFarlane, based in Pittsburgh, PA, in the mid-1970s, and who was my 2nd piping teacher, and this recent picture of JOYCE (in Scotland with her husband Jimmy McIntosh, also of Pgh) brought me 'there' in some time travel, here -
Jimmy McIntosh, DR’s Scrapbook and the Day John MacFadyen Did the Double
And then John MacFadyen in this same article was a teacher at a College of Piping summer camp near the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games in NC for a summer or two, thanks to Sandy Jones bringing him over from Scotland -
(Drawing parallels, I think "Doing the Double" - or "Did the Double" re John MacFadyen winning the 2 top piping prizes in Scotland in one year, could be somehow similar to WUaS having created 2 legal entities in California - the non-profit in CA (and 501 c 3 federally) World University and School, and the 2) for profit general stock company the WUaS Corporation, in California) - a kind of different "Doing the Double" :)
"John had pulled off the double, winning the Clasp and Gold Medal at the same meeting"
"winning both the Gold Medal competition and the Clasp at the Northern Meeting"
(Jimmy McIntosh's brogue, as you'll hear in another "Alasdair Dearg" email thread I'll send you, is very broad, a bit hard to understand, and he's lived in Pgh PA for decades, having left Scotland :))
John MacFadyen -
http://schoolofpiping.com/photo_album/Pipers%20of%20Past%20Years%20©/slides/john-macfadyen.htmlAnd here's a picture of John MacFadyen from the cover of his 1st volume of Bagpipe Tunes -
Ed Krintz was my first piping teacher, and thanks to Sandy Jones, both here:
And Stuart Liddell is a teacher of mine in a sense too, and re -
Am liking how Stuart Liddell kind of becomes ONE with his pipes ... and then soars with high very rhythmic 'flight' flying directly into the sun or the light :)
Stuart Liddell - Lunchtime Recital 2010: 4 of 8
At 5:20 is about as free as he gets ...
Stuart Liddell - Lunchtime Recital 2010: 5 of 8
Uniquely brilliant Stuart Liddell musical expressiveness ... and check out Gordon Duncan for other unique and brilliant Bagpiping musical expressiveness ... they've both created their own sound ..
Just some thoughts about previous bagpiping teachers - wow - and NOW :)
Scott
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