How many uilleann pipers?

ausdag · Post by **ausdag** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:57 pm

Patrick D'Arcy wrote: quoting John Walsh

Don't know about that .3
piper.

He plays a bellows only

myrddinemrys · Post by **myrddinemrys** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 6:58 am

And I thought the topic of this discussion was going to be:
"How many uilleann pipers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?"

That is funny, in any case. My question is, however, has he taken into account inhabitable landmass? I think that would affect the figure even further, not to mention a slew of other criteria that would make it even funnier.

PJ · Post by PJ » Wed Jun 29, 2005 7:08 am

myrddinemrys wrote:"How many uilleann pipers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?"

Only one, but it takes him/her 21 years to learn how. But by the end of that time, they know how to add colour to the lightbulb.

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 7:42 am

7 years to learn the shape of the light bulb
7 years to learn the correct twisting movement
7 years to find the switch

buskerSean · Post by **buskerSean** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 9:31 am

plus a ten year waiting list for the bulb.

buskerSean · Post by **buskerSean** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 9:31 am

How many Bodhran players to change a light bulb?

mickspangle · Post by **mickspangle** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 9:54 am

...and they get it to stay put with a combination of hemp thread, ptfe tape and blu-tac?

Jasiek · Post by **Jasiek** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 2:33 pm

Patrick D'Arcy wrote:This was posted by Terry Moylan at NPU to the Uilleann Pipes Mailing List on Thu, 19 Jun 2003:

"NPU does not have every piper in the world on our books, and every
'piper' on our books might only have a tenuous hold on that title.
Nevertheless, here are our figures:

Ireland: 906
USA: 524
Britain: 442
Australia: 101
Germany: 75
France: 64
Canada: 56
Italy: 29
Spain: 29
New Zealand: 28
Japan: 24
Netherlands: 24
Switzerland: 21
Sweden: 20
Belgium: 16
Denmark: 9
Finland: 5
Norway: 5

2 each in Oman, Luxembourg, Argentina, Brazil, Greece and Israel 1 each
in Uruguay, Bermuda, Croatia, Czech Republic, Singapore, Hong Kong,
Russia, Portugal, Pakistan, Malaysia, Mexico & South Africa.

A total of 2,402 I believe.

Terry Moylan"

And 5 uilleann pipers in Poland

kb · Post by kb » Thu Jun 30, 2005 4:16 pm

buskerSean wrote:How many Bodhran players to change a light bulb?

They can't, they keep breaking it with their little sticks....

PJ · Post by PJ » Fri Jul 01, 2005 5:36 am

kb wrote:
buskerSean wrote:How many Bodhran players to change a light bulb?
They can't, they keep breaking it with their little sticks....

I believe the correct answer is:

None - they've got a machine that can do that now-a-days.

BZH29 · Post by **BZH29** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 3:41 pm

For Sylvain ...and the other ...
There are at least 200 U.Pipers living in France ; I personnaly know about one hundred of them , particularly located in Brittany and west of France .

carel · Post by **carel** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 3:23 am

Netherlands: 40 and me

Andy Parnell · Post by **Andy Parnell** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 10:44 am

I would of hoped that they broke Britain down into it's respective countries, Wales, England, Scotland, Cornwall, Isle of Man. It would of been interesting to see the distribution of players too.

Kind regards

Andy