Slow Piping and Violin Duets

Baglady · Post by **Baglady** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 12:54 pm

Try the snips & clips page available from this sight. It has a page full of slow air clips. You want to hear stuff right?

For state of the art pipe and fiddle duets try the Neff Brothers.

PS Royce can't play a slow air to save his life so he has to come over all disintrested and negative.

fancypiper · Post by **fancypiper** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 1:07 pm

Nevertheless, you would have to admit that the Lament for the Dead Fox is lovely, no matter what your opinion of the way someone else plays, wouldn't you, BagLady?

The real trick is to be able to do the entire "Fox Hunt" with all the chase stirring up all the geese, dogs and chickens.

I love the lost dog part that Felix Doran does.

djm · Post by **djm** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 1:24 pm

I was thinking of adapting Simon & Garfunkel's "At the Zoo" and add all the animals in. What do you think?

djm

fancypiper · Post by **fancypiper** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 1:35 pm

Well, what do you have planned for the sound of the camelopardalis reticulata?

That's got to be the coolest scientific nomentclature (when translated) for genus and species I have ever seen .

Thies · Post by **Thies** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 10:57 pm

fancypiper wrote:Well, what do you have planned for the sound of the camelopardalis reticulata?

This one ?!?
Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata, Family: Giraffidae, Order: Artiodactyla, Class: Mammalia

All photos: Knuthenborg Zoo, Denmark (Photo: © Johnny Jensen)

elbogo · Post by **elbogo** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 11:24 pm

Thies... speaking of camel Culats, what's with the duckburgers? Do they come with cheese?

arf, arf!! Sorry, couldn't help it...

Thies · Post by **Thies** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 11:40 pm

elbogo wrote:Thies... speaking of camel Culats, what's with the duckburgers? Do they come with cheese?

Well ... currently we haven't decided yet on the menue (under constrcution as you can see). And hunting season for ducks is still some time to go as well ... what I can offer right now is mooseburgers and they come with plenty of lingonberry!

P.S.: What the heck are "camel Culats"?

fancypiper · Post by **fancypiper** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 8:48 am

Thies wrote:
fancypiper wrote:Well, what do you have planned for the sound of the camelopardalis reticulata?
This one ?!?

That very animal. I have never heard anything from them except hoofbeats and leaves tearing off the stuff they feed then. I think I read that they don't have vocal cords (but I think funny sometimes after some medications).

I think camelopardalis (camel with long neck) came from the Arabians.

PiperDog · Post by **PiperDog** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 9:41 am

Fellow pipers,

Thank you for the great input for your favorite haunting, slow piping melody.

Though the topic of animals may seem interesting, you may want to start your own thread and continue there.

What other songs are on your short list -- slow melodies that inspire you and appeal to something very deep and awesome within you as you listen to them? What melodies do you know of that can keep a slow tempo that are hauntingly beautiful?

Thanks for your all your awesome suggestions,

PiperDog

fancypiper · Post by **fancypiper** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 9:48 am

PiperDog wrote:Though the topic of animals may seem interesting, you may want to start your own thread and continue there.

Sidetracks on BBSs and mailing lists seem to be the nature of the beast (pun intended) for the best and most popular ones.

Heavily moderated boards are very boring and poorly attended.

If you wanna pipe, you gotta be a little off, just ease up and let it out.

fancypiper · Post by **fancypiper** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 9:59 am

PiperDog wrote:What other songs are on your short list -- slow melodies that inspire you and appeal to something very deep and awesome within you as you listen to them? What melodies do you know of that can keep a slow tempo that are hauntingly beautiful?

I recommend Dickie Deegan's first CD, By the River of Gems. It has the most slow airs (I think you mean that with slow songs) of any CD I have bought. Almost 1/2 the tracks are slow airs.

Oh, Treasure of My Heart (with hard/soft es and octave changes, stands every hair on end when I listen to it)

The Wounded Hussar

Dear Irish Boy

The Twisting of the Hayrope

Castle of Drunmore

By the River of Gems

The Fairy Queen

Princess Royal

Carrickfergus

Wild Colonial Boy

I don't have a C natural key, so I am limited in the number of slow airs as so many use upper octave C nat.

AlanB · Post by **AlanB** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 11:32 am

Ennis playing Cronan Na Mathar (sp?).
Willie playing The Bold Trainer O.
Keenan playing Derry Gaol (Streets of)

elbogo · Post by **elbogo** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 11:33 am

Dicky Deegans versions (there are several) of Stor Mo Chroi, are quite
lovely, as are the versions I've heard of The Wild Geese, by Ronan Browne and Liam O'Flynn.

Sound Clips:

http://artists.iuma.com/dl/Dicky_Deegan ... rt_Air.mp3

Lament for the Wild Geese... Ronan Browne:

http://www.claddaghrecords.com/www/musi ... 4trk14.mp3

The Wild Geese... Liam O'Flynn; scroll down to samples:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/clips ... 02-7372867

Just to cite two tunes.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 12:01 pm

fancypiper wrote:I think camelopardalis (camel with long neck) came from the Arabians.

[pedant mode]
We get the word "giraffe" from the Arabic: az-zirāfah.
[/pedant mode]

fancypiper · Post by **fancypiper** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 12:58 pm

Hmmm I thought az was something like "the" or "a" in Arabic.

Perhaps we should compose a slow air for them because they look like they run in slow motion, but they can really move!

They have the roughest tongue of any animal I have ever felt.

More trivia: the Malay word zirAfah (which translates to giraffe) is a harvesting pole to harvest oil palm fresh fruit bunches.

I may need the ~ above the A in those.