Sorry for the odd title, but it is the question!
So on videos of Ennis, I often thought I saw a bit of tape flapping about by his chanter stock, and thought nothing of it- bit of bodging for air tightness.
Then I saw this photo: https://www.rte.ie/archives/2015/0916/7 ... mus-ennis/
And it seems it’s actually a quite precisely made leather collar, tied with a thin leather string.
The question being- what on earth is the point of this? It’s obviously not for airtightness, and serves no purpose for fitting the bag cover. And I don’t think it’s decorative because it’s a bit, well, odd looking.
Any ideas?
Seamus Ennis’s Mystery Flaps
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Re: Seamus Ennis’s Mystery Flaps
No explanation why it was there but an explanation why he used it: Because his father designed the bag that way. He talked about he bag and the falcon hood one of the last times I saw him play and that was the reason he gave.
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