Uilleann and Etc.?

s1m0n · Post by **s1m0n** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:12 pm

One or more of the McPeakes used to both play and sing. I used to have a recording of him doing that Irish somg that starts "Or-o.." something or other.

WireHarp · Post by **WireHarp** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:55 pm

I sing and play all the time on my shuttles and have just started trying it on the pastorals. The shuttles are in A which is a better key for me. I know there is a similar tradition among Northumberlandererers.. ers..they have contests for piping singers.
Because of the info I have turned up regarding Robert Bremner's book on playing the guittar, I double the melody line with the chanter as I sing rather than cutting in and out and doing hamonies etc. Bremner specifically recommends doubling the melody when singing with the guittar, so I am beginning to think this might have been the historical way to go.
Has set me to thinking about the notion of session players all doing the melody (and of course earlier dance players) and avoiding harmony. It may have some very deep roots.

Robert Mouland
www.wireharp.com

Kevin L. Rietmann · Post by **Kevin L. Rietmann** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 2:08 pm

s1m0n wrote:One or more of the McPeakes used to both play and sing. I used to have a recording of him doing that Irish somg that starts "Or-o.." something or other.

Óró, sé do bheatha 'bhaile. Folktrax has a CD of Francie I and II singing/playing, very nice record. THE SINGING PIPER it's called.

BoneQuint · Post by **BoneQuint** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:09 pm

Flogging Jason wrote:I saw the Chieftains in concert once and between songs Paddy Moloney jokingly talked about wanting a piano-like device he could play with his feet whilst piping.

Flogging Jason · Post by **Flogging Jason** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:56 pm

BoneQuint wrote:

what on earth is that?!

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 5:03 pm

A foot organ/bass.

Patrick D'Arcy · Post by **Patrick D'Arcy** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 5:10 pm

Joseph E. Smith wrote:A foot organ/bass.

Now THERE's a photoshop oppertunity if ever I saw one!

Pat.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 5:12 pm

BoneQuint · Post by **BoneQuint** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 6:33 am

Patrick D'Arcy wrote:Now THERE's a photoshop oppertunity if ever I saw one!

Post by **Nanohedron** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 10:25 am

Where are they cymbals between his knees?

Father Emmet · Post by **Father Emmet** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 11:32 am

Flogging Jason wrote: Paddy Moloney jokingly talked about wanting a piano-like device he could play with his feet whilst piping.

Geddy Lee used to play these:
http://www.keyboardmuseum.org/ar/m/moog/tar1.html

AlanB · Post by **AlanB** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:01 pm

Pulled to save offence.

tommykleen · Post by **tommykleen** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:35 pm

Sorry to be such a poop, but even I have limits (hard to believe!) about messing around with the images of dead pipers. Maybe it's that this man died too young and looks a little sickly in the shot to boot. As the late Robert Altman said "the death of an old man is not a tragedy".

For those who want to know more about this piper (Philip Martin was his name) you can read and see more on the uilleann obsession site/diary 2004. Here is the text lifted from same:

" I just received this photo and information from Gabriel McKeagney:
"Patrick, Lawrence McManus sent me this good pic of piper Philip Martin. He was born in 1907 and lived in Co Fermanagh, In Kilturk, between Lisnaskea and Newtownbutler. He died in 1942. There are recordings of him playing 5 or 6 tunes and he was a proficient player of the pipes. We do not know where the pipes are now that are in the picture or who made them, but he was known to have been in a band and to have been in close contact with Leo Rowsome during his career. There is a CD of his playing being worked on at the moment for release in the near future.

Gabriel"

You can see the ungoofedaroundwith picture and the nice headstone for this piper (we should all deserve/have earned such a nice monument) included in this reference sited above.

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djm · Post by **djm** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:21 pm

Well, Tommy, at least they didn't use a wah-wah pedal.

djm