What started you piping?

wgority · Post by **wgority** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 6:59 pm

PJ wrote:In 30 words or less, what was it that began your interest in piping?
PJ

Hearing Jerry O'Sullivan live for the first time at North Hero (in the old Northumbrian Pipers Convention days). It was a revelation to me.

Bill

wharfedalecarving · Post by **wharfedalecarving** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 5:17 am

By chance I came across the vinyl LP "The Wandering Minstrel" by Seamus Ennis in the Public lending library. I was searching for a Dubliners album at the time I think. I thought the instrument on the front cover looked odd as I'd never seen or heard a set Uilleann pipes before.
Took it home, played it & that was the beginning of a sometimes stormy

friendship between me an' me pipes spanning over 20 years

.
Joseph.

rgouette · Post by **rgouette** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 9:21 am

Brian O Brian (sp?)
Riverdance video performance of the lament.

ausdag · Post by **ausdag** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:05 am

A vague but intriguing description of the Union Pipes in an old torn dictionary of music which included a sketch of Paddy Coneely - The Galway Piper. I thought "That'll look different".

Stefan_Kayat · Post by **Stefan_Kayat** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 10:11 am

At age 15, I heard Liam O'Flynn's playing with Planxty. After three years I actually started playing the pipes. I bought a practice set by O'Dowd/Bourke in 1985.

Andy Parnell · Post by **Andy Parnell** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 2:53 pm

I remember listening to this band in the pub called the Press Gang and seeing this weird and wonderful contraption with absolute amazing music coming out of it and the piper's fingers flying all over like sparks. All I remember was all these tubes and things coming off it and going in strange directions (like, back into itself). It first sparked my interest in Uilleann pipes. It wasn't until several years later though that I actually got round to playing pipes (after several years on the tin whistle).

This pommy backpacker by the name of Mark (from London) wanted to sell his set as he needed extra travelling money and was mostly a tin whistle player anyhow. He sold me the set and I then sought out the bloke from the Press Gang and asked if he teaches pipes...haven't looked back since!

Cheers!

Andy

Sylvain · Post by **Sylvain** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 3:44 pm

Chieftains n°5 in 1993

Fergmaun · Post by **Fergmaun** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 4:22 pm

Listing to record or tapes my father had before CD came in.

So I started of listing to the following

Horslips
Planxty Liam O'Flynn
Bothy Band Paddy Keenan
Moving Hearts Davey Spillane
Chieftain Paddy Moloney
H. Block Dan Dowd (Taimse i mo chodladh)

Neil · Post by **Neil** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 4:47 pm

Planxty.

NicoMoreno · Post by **NicoMoreno** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 8:58 pm

I was told to learn a real instrument.

Birl · Post by **Birl** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:27 am

music of Braveheart

and a master class in the Interceltique Lorient Festival
but i began four years later (I was not crazy enough yet

)

PCL · Post by **PCL** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 5:23 am

Hearing them on a Seán Ó Riada album, I determined there and then to get pipes and play them. A few months later I heard Declan Affley playing his Harrington set at a session and I was hooked for that flat-pitch, narrow-bore sound. I got hold of any album with pipes on it: Chieftains, Rowsome, Ennis, Clancy, Seán McAloon, Pat Mitchell. Didn’t know about Planxty at the time. Then I met Geoff Wooff and ended up buying a flat set from him. There was no warning in the box about what I was in for!

P.

upiper71 · Post by **upiper71** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 8:41 am

Paddy Moloney solo on the 1993 song "Down by the Sally Gardens" by the Rankin Family album..also in 1992 U2 album song called "Tommorow".

upiper71

wolvy · Post by **wolvy** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 12:50 pm

I took up the pipes on a dare from a fiddle player who wanted to have a piper to play with.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:23 pm

wolvy wrote:I took up the pipes on a dare from a fiddle player who wanted to have a piper to play with.

... fiddlers have no shame...

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