Need for Speed!
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Lorenzo
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You did well, Orbis, to not let anyone intimidate you. Chances are not many can keep up with you anyway, even with only one year behind your belt as a U-Piper. Some of the more experience pipers have made some good points, and their comments are appreciated. Send an mp3 into "Clips and Snips" so we can have a listen to your progress on the uilleann pipes.
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Orbis
A quick review of my CDs gives me a few more names to add to Robbie's.
Ronan Browne and Finbar Furey are two guys who have some pretty fast stuff amongst their recordings. Ronan's "the wynd you know" is half slow airs, so might not be your thing. Finbar's Madam Bonaparte is not the fastest on the recording but will definitely impress you with the finger speed...and regs going at the same time.
Eoin Duignan can be pretty quick at times, style maybe more legato.
The fastest set I could find was Séan Potts' CD by the same name, track 13. "Farewell to Erin"....should give your ears blisters.
Gay McKeon is also quick....he's on the Drones & Chanters II, I think.
I might be able to write the notes for the first reel in Séan's set [I can't do ABC] or you could get a CD Slow downer [and prob. get your own personal version of it].
Boyd
A quick review of my CDs gives me a few more names to add to Robbie's.
Ronan Browne and Finbar Furey are two guys who have some pretty fast stuff amongst their recordings. Ronan's "the wynd you know" is half slow airs, so might not be your thing. Finbar's Madam Bonaparte is not the fastest on the recording but will definitely impress you with the finger speed...and regs going at the same time.
Eoin Duignan can be pretty quick at times, style maybe more legato.
The fastest set I could find was Séan Potts' CD by the same name, track 13. "Farewell to Erin"....should give your ears blisters.
Gay McKeon is also quick....he's on the Drones & Chanters II, I think.
I might be able to write the notes for the first reel in Séan's set [I can't do ABC] or you could get a CD Slow downer [and prob. get your own personal version of it].
Boyd
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Patsy Touhey, Pat Mitchell, Séan Potts, and Gay McKeon always makes my jaw drop. They are amazingly accurate in tempo and getting all the notes in, too.
I think the hottest I ever heard were the Paddy Keenan cuts on "A Celebration of Pipes in Europe". He puts in all of Patsy Touhey's licks plus a few of his own but in a glorius full fidelity recording.
I just play half-fast, myself.
I think the hottest I ever heard were the Paddy Keenan cuts on "A Celebration of Pipes in Europe". He puts in all of Patsy Touhey's licks plus a few of his own but in a glorius full fidelity recording.
I just play half-fast, myself.
Hi All,
Great discussion. My comments.
a) Someone mentioned coming out of the closet as a piper...congrats.
b) Columbia is spelt Colombia, and the people there suffer an awful lot due to attrocities supported by CIA funding of the weaponry down there. Pipers or not, they deserve respect.
c) On the speed thing. Sure, someone can play for speed in the first year, but it will not be clean. As Paul said, experience of numerous senior pipers holds a lot of weight. To take a Canadian example, Ashley McCisaac (fiddler), started playing slowly and worked for fifteen years to play the way he does.
d) Could the author of the question post a sound bite of his fastest song, so the jury can speak. We could all be wrong and find that his speed is clean, precise and crisp. Until then, I remain skeptical.
Cheers,
Novice Piper
Great discussion. My comments.
a) Someone mentioned coming out of the closet as a piper...congrats.
b) Columbia is spelt Colombia, and the people there suffer an awful lot due to attrocities supported by CIA funding of the weaponry down there. Pipers or not, they deserve respect.
c) On the speed thing. Sure, someone can play for speed in the first year, but it will not be clean. As Paul said, experience of numerous senior pipers holds a lot of weight. To take a Canadian example, Ashley McCisaac (fiddler), started playing slowly and worked for fifteen years to play the way he does.
d) Could the author of the question post a sound bite of his fastest song, so the jury can speak. We could all be wrong and find that his speed is clean, precise and crisp. Until then, I remain skeptical.
Cheers,
Novice Piper
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Royce
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Except that all of those guys played their instruments pretty much like a lot of other guys had done over the previous hundred years, they just stole liberally from a bunch of styles and put them in a setting that was normally out of context for that style. They weren't innovators so much as just really good players who dabbled in a lot of styles.ston wrote:over the years, playing instruments differently than the traditional way -- just look at Edgar Meyer, Bela Fleck, or Ian Anderson (of Jethro Tull). All great musicians who have achived some very nice results playing their instruments in ways that were previously unheard.
-David
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