Hi, I am a beginner piper, and found this website with links to youtube videos for uilleann pipe lessons. Has anybody gone here to try them, are the pipes he is playing flat? I sat down to try to play along, realized something was amiss, and then pulled out a tuner…finding that my pipes are in tune +/-. Thank you
Dude, what a tool you are to complain about such a nice thing given to anyone and everyone free of charge. 
Perhaps you should go scrub your scrotum with a Brillo pad and rubbing alcohol and then get back to us? 
The person who made tradlessons is a member of this forum and i don’t know about others, but i know a lot of the songs that i know on the whistle i would not know if it wasnt for him. he’s been a great resource and is well loved/thanked for his work.
Now whether his pipes are in tune a440 or not i don’t know, i do know that the tuning you get from something on the internet can be very tricky. If for some reason your vid plays a few milliseconds slower than recorded speed it will change the pitch ever so slightly, if you video card/sopund card doesnt give full playback, it will change the tuning, if the conversion from video to digital video file is not 100 percent dead on as far as speed is concerned, tuning problems. If you are noticing tuning problems, there are many ways to get around that, just understand in your mind that pitch will be off slightly, but once you learn the tune from this marvelous resource, it won’t matter if your pitch is off from his slightly when you’re playing it solo.
This is the exact kind of put-off post that drive contributors who have something to say off this list.
…obair déas?!
Hi and welcome to our friendly forum.
The tradlessons pipes are indeed a key of D (concert pitch) set. Trixie’s right about the computer “timing vs tuning” issue.
You might also check the calibration of your tuner or it may be that your actual playing is pitched differently than your “tuner” playing. New fluters have this problem…playing quietly into a tuner only to go on stage and play hard (and out of tune).
Also remember that bag pressure can move a note a good deal flat or sharp.
You can skip the Brillo treatment by the way. It was an honest and good question. Welcome to the forum. 
Doc
Hey, I was not complaining, and real sorry if it sounded so, I was just asking because I was wondering about the tuning of the sound coming out of my computer speakers or if it was my playing ability which is very limited. I probably should have said that in the original post. And I really appreciate the help I get off of forums such as this
My bad. I’m sorry. 
Yeah … but, hey, that Brillo pad thing sounds like fun. I gotta try that. 
Let me replace Brillo pad with cotton ball and alcohol with mineral oil, o.k.?
Careful now…this is a family show. 
Doc
Has Fox acquired the C&F? As much violence as you like but no hint of sexuality or you get burned at the stake???
(I better add a few smilie faces so people know I’m joking)
Bar-B-Q scraper?
What a fecking overreaction.It was a honest question. Stop trying to be so smart.
I apologize again. Je suis désolé!!! I am very sorry for the response, really. I thought that it was a jab at someone who was trying to do something good for us all. I think we all play along with others or recordings of others who are not in perfect tune. I guess the original poster has perfect pitch (I’ve met a few like this, not many) who are very annoyed by anything not lining up perfectly (or very nearly so). I’ve played along with these Utube recordings and have not found it bothersome at all.
But due to the private e-mails I have received rebuking me, as well as posts like this one, I have decided to exile myself from the forum for the rest of the year.
No.
I enjoy reading your posts. Lets not have another Peter Laban incident when a piping expert left the board becasue of careless remarks by other board members.
Sorry If I came across a little strong,but that comment really struck a nerve 
Interesting, because generally I try hard to maintain my pipes at A440 for session playing.
But pipes being pipes, and Southern California weather being what it is, sometimes pitch drifts.
Are there specific videos where you find the pitch particularly bad, and what notes are you checking? Hopefully not the F# or B since on the pipes those notes are flat compared to a tuner because of the just intonation nature of the pipes.
YouTube does take the original files I upload and re-encode them in Flash format, and I can’t control what sort of violence they do to the video or audio, but if you’re finding that the pitch is wildly off from concert pitch, and you’ve checked that your tuner is in calibration, please let me know. I’d be happy to send you .mp3 files of any of the tunes.
After the last “incident”, I’m pretty much immune to anything posted on the internet about me or my sites… Sticks and stones, etc.
Thanks,
Michael
Well Michael I’ve heard your pipes in person many times and they’re always on pitch. Do the files get mangled by YouTube enough to alter pitch?
PS just what was this “last incident” or should we let sleeping dogs lie?
Let sleeping dogs lie…
This is exactly what I would like to see happen. Sorry I haven’t been around enough lately to monitor things a little more closely.
Move along folks, nothing to see here…
SO, I disconnected my mother board sound card, and bought a new sound card, and tunes are now right on. By the way, when I mentioned in my first post the pitch being off, it was off by at least a half tone. thank you for helping, and I have a thick skin too, so comments did not bother me.