uilleann pipering vs. Uilleann piping

pudinka · Post by **pudinka** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:29 pm

Does it really matter? If it were lift, bonnet, nuclear or flat to let - versus - elevator, hood, nuculear, or apartment for rent would it really matter...maybe it's just another difference between Amuricun English and British (better still, Irish) English? I like to say "pipe makering" and "reed makering", personally.

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:37 pm

I always thought the use of 'pipering' had to do with people with a tendency towards 'wankering' as I have never heard it used by any serious Irish piper to describe his or her craft but co-incidently I just got a copy of the Petrie collection in the post which has the 'Aon is Do na Piobaireachta' which Petrie translates as 'The One and Two of Pipering' so it's probably an archaic term. Which still leaves me thinking people who use the term are more often than not ..well never mind.

MyDearWatson · Post by **MyDearWatson** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:41 pm

Cheers fellas,

Time to mull this over. Special thanks to Khan Krum and bepoq.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:09 pm

Folks, it is obvious (and I am surprised no one has yet mentioned it), that pipering is what a piperer does... sheesh!!!

boyd · Post by **boyd** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:37 pm

Peter Laban wrote:I always thought the use of 'pipering' had to do with people with a tendency towards 'wankering' as I have never heard it used by any serious Irish piper to describe his or her craft but co-incidently I just got a copy of the Petrie collection in the post which has the 'Aon is Do na Piobaireachta' which Petrie translates as 'The One and Two of Pipering' so it's probably an archaic term. Which still leaves me thinking people who use the term are more often than not ..well never mind.

Thank you Peter.

I think you'd be unlikely to get from one end of Ballykelly to the other without a good kicking if you used the word "pipering" on the way.

love the wankering quip.... spot on there!!!

Boyd

glands · Post by **glands** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:25 pm

Before you guys masturbate about it too much....check out this link.

http://www.elderly.com/recordings/items/CLADDAGH32.htm

Pipering it is. Cannot dispute it any longer or else the gods of Uilleann pipering will collapse ye reeds and cause leaks to develop in ye sets.

JoeLynn · Post by **JoeLynn** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:26 pm

glands wrote:Before you guys masturbate about it too much....check out this link.

http://www.elderly.com/recordings/items/CLADDAGH32.htm

I was thinking of that recording as well as I read through this thread. But speaking of wankering, that site messed up their 'Willie'.

ceadach · Post by **ceadach** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:53 pm

Sometime a chanter is just chanter...

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:36 am

glands wrote:Before you guys masturbate about it too much....check out this link.

It was his publicist that screwed that one up... his wankerer publicist.

lordofthestrings · Post by **lordofthestrings** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:56 pm

Would it be fair to say that playing the pipes should (theoretically) be a tad and a half (on a warm day with fair humidity levels, and assuming the locals have forgotten their pitchforks and torches) more difficult (ie harder) than actually pronouncing (speaking about the act) it (being either er or not, personally believing that pipering sounds tons more sexy, and does not involving touching a muscian in any innapropraite way)?

-S.H

josh perkins · Post by **josh perkins** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 10:35 am

What about the term "musicianer"?

liestman · Post by **liestman** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 11:37 am

I propose the following new definitions be adopted worldwide.

Piping is the act of playing the pipes well.

Pipering is acting like you play the pipes well, but you really just like talking about it and dressing in period attire (Houston folks will get my drift, at least).

How about it, all in favor say Yo.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 12:15 pm

lordofthestrings · Post by **lordofthestrings** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 8:12 pm

What about the term "musicianer"?

I've been called one, I believe it pretains to soemone who plays a number of instruments fairly well, within their own contexts, and has a good knweledge of what they do.

-Lordo

glands · Post by **glands** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 10:52 pm

Houston? Houston?

Hey...that's where I am tonite!

"Speakering" tomorrow at MD Anderson Cancer Center.