Unbelievable stuff

Just noticed Padraig's tenor regulator in the first video has a high d, which is new to me. Is that at all typical? I'm curious if the reg needs special construction to accommodate this, or if an extra key can just simply be tacked on to a typical reg.

Not typical. I doubt if it's simply a matter of adding an extra key. Drilling the tone hole for the extra key would alter the tuning of all lower notes on the reg, so their positions would probably have to be recalculated. But I'm speculating. Any high priests of pipe-making willing to chime in?

The bass reg keys also looks non-standard. Either there's an extra key or the C key is elongated.

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FWIW, I've posted my sketch book of tune variants to The Tube.

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A few clips of Jerry O'Sullivan that I had not seen before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9IHaJrUG2Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olA-LAG0aRc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cB4_uQ2LqE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_V1XZnpqGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2WhgM627V4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfSzu81IMgY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Popr3SjIdac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs0cn_BfveI

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From just a few days ago, Loic Blejean on Uilleann pipes and Louisa Bennion on concertina, playing Louisa's composition "The Grey Horse":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdaEtkjYVZc

Lovely tune.

From a couple months ago, Calum Stewart on the pipes along with other musicians:
Link to Youtube video

Here are Claire Byrne on uilleann pipes and her sister Ursula playing fiddle, accompanying composer Josephine Keegan on piano for Ronnie Cooper’s Reel / The Gates of Mullagh.
This performance is from the 2005 TG4 National Traditional Music Awards, just posted yesterday on Youtube by TG4:
Link to Youtube video

Interestingly, the drones and mainstock on Claire's 3/4 set appear to be of the "imported" variety, perhaps the ones that Waltons was reportedly selling a number of years ago.

This just in!
Tom Kannmacher tests out a plastic chanter reed made by Hans-Jörg Podworny:
Link to video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS3iUDGU-ik


A chanter reed made out of flamed maple

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Will Woodson on uilleann pipes Caitlin Finley on Fiddle, playing "The Fowler on the Moor" and "All the Ways to Galway."
Here's the link

Paddy Keenan & Simon Doyle:
Youtube link

Chris McMullan playing the slow air Slán le Máigh:
Youtube link

A piper doing a more traditional-flavored solo rendition of Gerard Fahy's "Magh Seola" at An Pucan pub in Galway:
Youtube link