I have a myspace music page now

[seisflutes]

Hi Kelly,

Out of curiosity, who is your regular teacher?

Don't have one. Just myself. There is a guy I play in sessions with pretty regularly, and just watching what he did was helpful in the beginning, though I think I've gotten all I can from his playing now.

[Beau Comiseau]

Wow!!!

You have taken Ennis' saying that "it takes seven years of learning, seven years of practice and seven years of playing to become a uilleann piper" and reduced it by a factor of seven. And, without a teacher. You are truly remarkable, a real genius.

Word has it that you're a master reed maker too. Some folks get all the talent.

[seisflutes]

Quit saying such things, it'll go to my head!

[Beau Comiseau]

Sorry, it's true. But I know that you're just being modest.

[John O'Gara]

Nicely done Kelly! I enjoyed the selection of tunes very much.

Keep posting more tunes when you get time.

[Steafan]

Great playing indeed.

Best of luck.

Steafan

[Beau Comiseau]

Hi Kelly,

Out of curiosity, who is your regular teacher?

Don't have one. Just myself. There is a guy I play in sessions with pretty regularly, and just watching what he did was helpful in the beginning, though I think I've gotten all I can from his playing now.

Kelly, I think you've mentioned that you were playing flute and whistle a couple of years before starting the pipes. Did you get formal instruction in those instruments, or did you learn them the same way you learned the pipes (by listening and watching)?

[seisflutes]

Hi Kelly,

Out of curiosity, who is your regular teacher?

Don't have one. Just myself. There is a guy I play in sessions with pretty regularly, and just watching what he did was helpful in the beginning, though I think I've gotten all I can from his playing now.

Kelly, I think you've mentioned that you were playing flute and whistle a couple of years before starting the pipes. Did you get formal instruction in those instruments, or did you learn them the same way you learned the pipes (by listening and watching)?

I pretty much taught myself flute and whistle too. My very first instrument was rec*rder, which my mom sort of taught me, along with basic music theory and reading. Then after I'd been teaching myself on a silver flute for a few months, I did have a classical flute teacher for a little while, but she made me do all this classical stuff which I never practiced.
I have had some summer workshops on all my instruments (except tenor banjo).

[fancypiper]

I can hardly wait until you get some flat pipes and put up some tunes!

Nice stuff!

Summer workshops and/or week long schools are where you really pick up new stuff IMHO.

[seisflutes]

If my friend with the B set lets me borrow it again, I plan to record something with it. I hope he does, and soon!

[pipersgrip]

excellent piping, i sent you a friend invite, it is cool to have fellow C&Fers on myspace too.

[Beau Comiseau]

If my friend with the B set lets me borrow it again, I plan to record something with it. I hope he does, and soon!

Well, keep us posted. And tell that friend to give you that B set! You deserve it!!!

[Beau Comiseau]

Oh yes, I forgot: any chance that you'll put any of your tunes on Clips-n-Snips?

[seisflutes]

Oh yes, I forgot: any chance that you'll put any of your tunes on Clips-n-Snips?

I dunno. I hadn't thought about it. I guess I could. I never visit clips-n-snips out of habit from when I had no sound on any of the computers I used. No reason to keep avoiding it now, I suppose, if I remember its existance!

[Kevin L. Rietmann]

There's a pipes track. I'd appreciate hearing everyone's opinions.

Lovely F# trill, and those little bottom D variations. How about some pauses? I love pauses. It's what seperates us from the fiddlers.
Pipes sound very nice, bit echoey but a good kind of echo. Would be nice to hear them in a different setting. Lovely buzz out of the drones. Is that a newer Seth chanter? He took a bunch of his old ones back for refitting, I remember. Something in the bell.