Brian McNamara on YouTube

MikeyLikesIt · Post by **MikeyLikesIt** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:02 pm

Thought I should share this find.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9JZPjoySqno& ... h=uilleann

brianc · Post by **brianc** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:57 pm

Now it appears that Brian is pretty frustrated at the beginning and the end of the tune... I wonder what was bothering him? The piping sounded wonderful, thanks for sharing this!

L42B · Post by **L42B** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:47 am

What are those two tunes. They are so very well known and they'd be a nice set to add to my collection.

Cheers L42B

oliver · Post by **oliver** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:07 am

Two lovely hornpipes : Mrs Crotty and The humours of Tullycrine. They're on Brian's last cd.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:19 am

brianc wrote:Now it appears that Brian is pretty frustrated at the beginning and the end of the tune... I wonder what was bothering him? The piping sounded wonderful, thanks for sharing this!

My thought is he was most likely annoyed at his drones, and later his playing. Even when he makes a slight mistake, his piping is extraordinary. Certainly my favorite living piper by far.

wgority · Post by **wgority** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:24 am

That one got added to my favorites on YouTube pretty durn fast, I can tell you!

billh · Post by **billh** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:09 am

I found this listed shortly afterwards...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nmDmjZtDYeQ& ... h=uilleann

The piper is John Hughes of Newtownabbey, playing his original Coyne C# set.

KAD · Post by **KAD** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:33 am

Lovely playing on Brian's part, as always -- though the video is significantly askew from the sound, at least on my setup here at home. He started playing regulators on the video well before they turned up in the music. Or perhaps that's just a particularly advanced piping technique...he is awfully talented, after all.

KAD

P.S. I sure hope whoever posted that clip had Brian's permission.

MarkS · Post by **MarkS** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:49 am

brianc wrote:Now it appears that Brian is pretty frustrated at the beginning and the end of the tune... I wonder what was bothering him?

It was probably the air conditioning. When Brian brought out the C set for the 2nd half of the concert, the air conditioning noise was just sharp of his drones. It was an interesting, although distracting, effect, and Brian commented on it more than once during his set.

patrick Jacob · Post by **patrick Jacob** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:57 am

Thanks, this is great !!!!

PJ · Post by PJ » Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:31 pm

In the John McSherry clip, who's the other piper?

myrddinemrys · Post by **myrddinemrys** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:49 pm

"slight mistake"????

I don't know what you're talking about. wow. what a great player. Now didn't someone say not too long ago that you're not supposed to lift your fingers more than 1/4" from the tone holes??

Patrick D'Arcy · Post by **Patrick D'Arcy** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:00 am

PJ wrote:In the John McSherry clip, who's the other piper?

http://www.atfirstlight.net/

Francie McIlduff - check out the videos of Dave Williams' wake on http://www.kerrywhistles.com/dl.php?group=23 for more.

Patrick.

pipesergeant · Post by **pipesergeant** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 3:45 pm

Forgive my ignorance, I'm a total uilleann piper newbie, but are the pipes in this youtube clip of Brian McNamara in C or D?

Thanks much!!!

Shanw

Patrick D'Arcy · Post by **Patrick D'Arcy** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 3:48 pm

That's Brian's concert pitched or D set by David Quinn & Benedict Koehler.

Patrick.