Ronnie Wathen

Hans-Joerg · Post by **Hans-Joerg** » Sat Aug 20, 2011 4:03 am

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Kevin L. Rietmann · Post by **Kevin L. Rietmann** » Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:02 pm

Ronnie Wathen - Google Images Search

Huge version here: Allen, Smyth, Fitzgerald, Coxhill, Wathen, Shepheard, Lady June & Friends - An Odd Acts Event

mukade · Post by **mukade** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:51 pm

I haven't been around here much recently.
I thought I there must have been an error in the site database when I saw this thread I started back in 2005.

It is nice to hear some more information about Ronnie.

Kerryman · Post by **Kerryman** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 10:27 am

Can somebody explain what kind of contraption Ronnie has going here?
2 hoses connected to the chanter top with one of them wrapped around his neck?

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Post by **benhall.1** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 1:01 pm

Isn't it just two longer than normal hoses, just so his pal can hold the rest of his set of pipes? One of them comes from the bellows, and one from the chanter. Apart from being longer than normal, the rest is as usual, isn't it?

bensdad · Post by **bensdad** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 1:48 pm

"so his pal can hold the rest of his set of pipes"

erm, I think tht's Neillidh Mulligan holding his own set of pipes.
And (as may have been pointed out) that handsome devil with the glasses is Mick O'Brien.

Mr.Gumby · Post by **Mr.Gumby** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 1:57 pm

that handsome devil with the glasses is Mick O'Brien.

The one that isn't Mal Whyte is anyway.

Post by **benhall.1** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:00 pm

Is that really Neilidh Mulligan? Good grief! I think I prefer him now ...

So why has he got extra long tube thingies then?

rorybbellows · Post by **rorybbellows** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:13 pm

There was a member of the forum by the name of Peter Laban a few years back, I think thats him in the aran jumper. Of course thats an old photo and Peters an old man now. Its great to look back at old photos like that.

RORY

Kevin L. Rietmann · Post by **Kevin L. Rietmann** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 5:43 pm

The "Guerilla pipes." Kind of explained here: Chiff and Fipple Forums • View topic - Ronnie Wathen's magic drones. He wrote an An Piobarie article about it too, as I recall. Early 70s. I've seen worse, although in that old thread I compared Ronnie's rig to an enema kit...

Ronnie Wathen Irish Poet & Piper. Some handbill you can print out if so inclined. Nice sketchwork.

Mr.Gumby · Post by **Mr.Gumby** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 1:40 am

I think thats him in the aran jumper.

That's Mal Whyte (as I suggested above by the way).

rorybbellows · Post by **rorybbellows** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:13 am

I met Ronnie years ago in the London pipers club,he had a unique piping style. I learned recently that he left some money in his will for the members of the LPC so they could have a drink in his memory.

RORY

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