Hi guys-I’m trying to gather some preliminary info on a dissertation I’m interested in doing…I want to discover what the different learning experiences were for people when learning the pipes…did you have a teacher, mentor,or were you primarily on your own?Did you grow up listening to the pipes or not, if not,what caught your interest?The experience for North American players will probably be markedly different than for Irish players(which is one of the things I want to find out)Of course, a board is not exactly scientific, but it’s a good place for me to start…Thanks!!!
Janice re your dissertation I have posted a wee message in your private mail if it will be of any help.Good Luck
Slan go foill
Hi Janice,
If you want to drop me an email (my email addy is in my profile) with your questions, I’ll be only too happy to give you any help I can.
All the best,
Steve
Janice, please check your private messages.
Janice,
I guess everyone wants to comment offlist. Are you getting the response you expected?
Hi Janice,
Also happy to participate…email is in ye ol’ profile or will be shortly.
BC
Thanks everyone for all of the wonderful offers to share information-there are lots of great stories out here.
I’ll be meeting with my advisor at the end of the semester at which point I may or may not get the go ahead for my dissertation idea. My advisor has told me that if my pipe study doesn’t fly as a dissertation, I could do it as a secondary paper to present at a symposium..which would also be very cool.
One of the Music Ed Profs where my husband is going to school did a qualitative dissertation back in 1990-93, that involved living with many of the older “pure drop” Irish players in Ireland (it’s an incredible disso-it reads like a who’s who of Irish musicians-I think I left drool marks on the pages as I was reading it)…and some of the folks that she spent time with have since passed on…she gathered much worthy information and music that otherwise would have been lost…all too common a story…