http://www.dennypb.com en-gb dennypb.com 2009-5-31T00:00:00Z dennypb.com http://www.dennypb.com/page4.htm#42432 Hey GuysAfter a few people in the band taking on the task of the website Mark has asked me to do it because I have experience... and lets face it I cant do much else.This website is the place that anyone who searches for Denny amp Dunipace Pipe Band will find so we need to make it as good as we can. If you have ANY pictures history items etc... to go on herei then please either give them to me on a disc at band practise or email me them my address is robbiecrowathotmail.co.uk or robbieatDennypb.comAlso if you have any ideas for the website how to make it better etc.. then just tell me ill see what I can do Were currently working on a new logo with Gleneagles in it.Thats it... ill shut up now and go update the news sectionRobbie 2009-5-29T00:00:00Z http://www.dennypb.com/page4.htm#38919 Both bands are champing at the bit to get out competing now. It has been a long winter with some new players moving into the organisation and one piper Jane Strathie moving up from the grade 4 to the grade 2. Thats one of the key elements of this band. We might play bucketloads of engagements and competitions but the opportunity to move up to a higher level of competition and performance is a huge carrot for all our learners and developing players. So thats the challenge practice hard do the graft and reap the benefit See you all at Dunbar... M. 2009-3-29T00:00:00Z http://www.dennypb.com/page4.htm#23041 The following was placed in the guestbook by someone called Timothy Simpson. He writes Please consider these comments as constructive to all pipe band drummers I mean all of them. I drummed for over twenty years in pipe bands. And let me tell you its Boring plain Boring. Its the same drum rudiments same press rolls. A friend of mine saw that I was in a rut playing the same press rolls and same drum licks that my grand daddy and your grand daddy played hundreds of years ago. Joined a great drum and bugle corps and now play in a world championship drum line. Lots of new drum rudiments out there . New drumming ideas for snares and bass drums and quads. The pipe band drum lines are old fashioned and out dated. If you want to improve your drumming skills get out of pipe band drumming. Really and truly I have improved and learned much much more. The pipe band drum instructors are all the same . They are in a time warp. Eight Track Tape Decks are Gone and So Are Rotary Telephones. People don... 2008-4-19T00:00:00Z http://www.dennypb.com/page4.htm#18265 The following is information was obtained from the Kinnaird Bagpipes Site which is well worth a look at www.kinnairdbagpipes.com Most of us in the band use the KORG CA30 tuner which can be calibrated and used as follows. Sound the low A on your chanter and look at where it is tuning on the meter. then use the calibration buttons up or down until the low A is reading zero on the meter. The green light will also come on when your meter is in tune with low A. To tune your drones All you have to do is hold the meter at the end of each drone easier if someone else is doing this whilst you play your pipes and then adjust the tuning slides of each drone in turn so that the drone sound also reads zero on the meter. To tune your chanter You can use the meter notes and offsets from zero in the following table to tune the other notes of the chanter. You should ensure that the meter is reading the correct note which will show up in the top right corner of the tuner. Notes C and F show up on ... 2008-1-6T00:00:00Z http://www.dennypb.com/page4.htm#16047 Mark mentioned moving tape about on your chanter on Monday night so I thought Id put up a few notes get it on the rationale behind the use of tape. We all know that sinking the reed or pushing the reed further into the chanter will raise the pitch of the reed and make it sharper. Conversely raising the reed up from the chanter seat will lower its pitch and make it flatter. So what does the addition of tape to a hole on the chanter achieve If you put tape over the top of a hole it will lower the pitch of that note. This is because by placing the tape over the hole you have increased the distance between the reed and the top of the hole youve effectively lowered the top of the hole. i.e. flattened the pitch. So for instance if you put tape further down the F hole then the pitch of your F will be lowered. If you then raise the piece of tape to a higher position so that it covers less of the hole you have raised the top of the hole and in doing so decreased the distance between the reed... 2007-10-31T00:00:00Z http://www.dennypb.com/page4.htm#16018 Its the second last day in October. If my memory serves me correctly Associations AGM was supposed to be in November. We are all supposed to have a months notice of the AGM. Is it my maths that is out or is there something else going on or not going on as the case may be Anyway in preparation for the next AGM whenever it may be I have put the minutes of the last meeting together with a copy of the current constitution on the Members Only page which can be accessed by going onto the Band News Page and clicking the link for Members Only. You will need the password which is case sensitive. It should be noted that these minutes have not been accepted as the official minutes of the last meeting but we need an AGM to carry this forward. The constitution is also based on what was recorded in the minutes and again this has still to be accepted by the next AGM. As for changes to the constitution or matters for the agenda................................................... 2007-10-30T00:00:00Z http://www.dennypb.com/page4.htm#15237 Well its that time of year again when we have a pile of music thrust upon us and we are sent away with the task of going through it until we are at least familiar with the content prior to sitting down at the practises and perfecting our new sets. For the long term members of the Grade 2 and 4 bands this process shouldnt be too painful as you should have most of the sets off. The Grade 2 band has a new four part strathspey a hornpipe a slow air and two jigs to learn for the competition field. The Grade 4 band has a new set of MAP tunes. Thats not a lot to be concerned about for the established members of both bands. However I would suggest that there is still a lot of work to be done on other parts of the bands repertoire. There were too many occasions last year when we were limited to playing family favourites because some of the band coudnt play all the music. We play 3 sets of 68s. We have a set of 98s. We have 3 sets of 44s over and above the grade 4 Medley. We have 2 sets of... 2007-10-8T00:00:00Z http://www.dennypb.com/page4.htm#14912 28th September 2007 SandyI thought that Id start the blog off with a wee bit about the music book. We published this in 2007and gave it the snappy title of The Denny and Dunipace Collection Volume 1. It just rolls off the tongue doesnt it Anyway this was a project that took about a year to put together with a view to raising some money for the Association but also to showcase the talents of the individual composers who either have been members of the band or have been associated with the various bands. The book contains over one handred previously unpublished compositions. There are twentyfive jigs eleven hornpipes ten reels nine strathspeys nine slow airs and fortyfour marches in assorted time signatures. That is one hundred and eight tunes in total It also contains a brief history of the Denny and Dunipace Pipe Band Association and notes explaining the names behind the compositions. Since its launch the book has been selling fairly well. Nothing spectacular but sales have been... 2007-9-28T00:00:00Z