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I'm at work and couldn't watch the video just yet, but I read "doo ba dee YIP-pa dee YIP-pa dee" and heard The Drops Of Brandy...

Do I have a problem?

Best possible news! Caoimhín gave a masterclass on the pipes at the Turning Wave festival in Gundagai in 2008. He kept apologizing, saying he hadn't touched pipes in four years... and proceeded to give three days of brilliant tuition, focusing largely on how to get expression out of the pipes in lig...

In the past two weeks, with the help of mates on fiddle and concertina, I've used my uilleann pipes to raise just under AUD$250 in donations, to be doubled by matching funds from my employer... for UNICEF's operations in Pakistan, birthplace of the worst uilleann pipes in the world! In seriousness, ...

Speaking of weddings, I have been asked to play at two weddings, at Burning Man no less...

Janie Mac, you're not really taking your pipes to the Playa?

There's Playa dust all over my house, and I've never even been there. My next door neighbor goes!

rgouette wrote:I submit, that Australian was perhaps drunk..?

Even worse: honest!

NB: To be perfectly clear, the scallops suit me fine at present. We were at the Australian National Folk Festival, it was 2am, the night was far from over, and as far as I could tell a good time was being had by all.

For the sake of full disclosure: an accomplished Australian piper recently voiced the opinion that scallops on the chanter were a) "like wearing someone else's undies" and b) "like having someone chew your food for you." Personally, I save a lot of time on chewing, and I feel saf...

Hi A! Yeah, I should say: I've had my Faden chanter for about a year and have been nothing but happy with it. If you're in the neighborhood and you want to have a go, you can probably guess my email address.

Indeed, the email reply from AI makes it sound like they've never heard of a CS1. Ah well. #4 it is, sounds like.

TheSilverSpear wrote:Mark, Any chance of you coming back to this side of the planet in the near future?

Willie Clancy Week beckons.

Check your email for details concerning markat23dotcom World Tour 2010...

Bill, can you describe how you modified Joe's #4 gouge, and what the intent and result were? Or Joe, same question?

I've written to AI to ask if they'd produce CS1 gouges, singly or in a batch... waiting for a reply.

All credit to Brian Vallely, without whom I would never have been in the Armagh City Hotel at four in the morning, drinking one pint while warming up another, with no idea where my camera was. And, that night was the first time I played the pipes (An Phis Fhliuch) in a session in the wild. One of th...

A short list of things introduced to Australia which it would likely have been better off without:

goats
rabbits
foxes
camels
cane toads
arundo donax
myself

Good news for pipers in Australia's top end:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010 ... 791660.htm

100,000 hectares! A dozen tubes would sort me out in the short term.

I am, dude. Summer's busting out all over here... early stages of busking weather have arrived. Afraid my piping style is getting more inbred by the hour. Regards to your illegal horse!

Anybody make it to this? How'd it go?

Every once in a while the universe kicks me in the head and says 'That'll teach you to leave Dublin.' Missing Mick in the Cobblestone would be one of those for sure... a giant boot to the head.