One dimensional pipers ?

rorybbellows · Post by **rorybbellows** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:24 pm

I,ve heard this term being used a few times,even applied to what I would consider to be very good pipers,but it sounds like a negative term.
What exactly would you think it means?

RORY

Post by **Nanohedron** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:53 pm

rorybbellows wrote:I,ve heard this term being used a few times,even applied to what I would consider to be very good pipers,but it sounds like a negative term.
What exactly would you think it means?

RORY

One-dimensional pipers play flat sets.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 4:45 pm

Seriously, though, "one-dimensional" in a case like that would be a negative. A highly proficient - technically speaking - player might be called "one-dimensional" if technique's the only thing he's got going. But the term is from a point of view of taste, so another person might validly disagree in some cases. But for me it would mainly mean there's something wooden, without heart, in the playing.

BTW, you could call someone "one-dimensional" just for doggedly sticking to the Pure Drop and not pushing the envelope, too.

Taste, and opinion.

pancelticpiper · Post by **pancelticpiper** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:13 am

A one-dimensional piper- that would be me! I learned to play in a very "open" style (in part because I liked the sound, in part because I didn't know any better) and I've played that way for 30 years.
Through the years I'm become more and more aware that nearly all other pipers' playing is more sophisticated than mine because of the nuances of articulation than my playing lacks.

Patrick D'Arcy · Post by **Patrick D'Arcy** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:06 pm

I beg to differ pancelticpiper.

PD.

rorybbellows · Post by **rorybbellows** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:33 pm

I saw a documentry about Kevin O,Reilly in which Tony McMahon described Sean McKeirnan as the best living piper we have and that he was a multi-dimensional piper,saying that we have to many one dimensional pipers at the moment
Another time I heard Liam O'Flynn desribed as a one dimensional piper.
Does Liam O'Flynn mix open and tight playing as this is what I thought was meant by one dimensional playing ?

RORY

PJ · Post by PJ » Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:46 pm

If we live in a 4 dimentional universe (length, breadth, depth and time), does that mean that a one dimentional pipers is not tall (no length), keeps lousy tempo (no time) and is a very shallow person (no depth)?

Alternatively, he could all the above, except tall and asthmatic (no breath).

MTGuru · Post by **MTGuru** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:03 pm

PJ wrote:If we live in a 4 dimentional universe (length, breadth, depth and time)

Actually, according to string theory we may live in an 11-dimensional universe.

But since that's, you know, string theory, it may not apply to pipers!

Boody · Post by **Boody** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:42 am

Actually, according to string theory we may live in an 11-dimensional universe.

But since that's, you know, string theory, it may not apply to pipers!

tommykleen · Post by **tommykleen** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:28 am

"... we live in a 4 dimentional universe ..."
"... we may live in an 11-dimensional universe."

Wrong, and wrong. It's three dimensions: ghrip, toc, and truckillyhow.

t

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 9:51 am

Nanohedron wrote:
rorybbellows wrote:I,ve heard this term being used a few times,even applied to what I would consider to be very good pipers,but it sounds like a negative term.
What exactly would you think it means?

RORY
One-dimensional pipers play flat sets.

You sir, have just made my day.

I derive nothing but negative connotations from the term "one dimensional" being applied to any living thing.

rgouette · Post by **rgouette** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 1:04 pm

One-dimensional pipers play flat sets.

hard to top that one lads...

jqpublick · Post by **jqpublick** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:06 pm

Actually, a one-dimensional creature couldn't play a two-dimensonal set, because (he said pedantically) one dimension cannot wrap itself around two dimensions (being a single infinitesimally small point in space), excepting of course in a black hole or singularity, if you will. And they suck and never blow. So how could it play?

Mark "I'm just here to be picky" Paxton-MacRae

Post by **Nanohedron** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:23 pm

Oh, tsk. Just........tsk.

MTGuru · Post by **MTGuru** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:35 pm

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