Why did you start playing pipes?
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Uilleann915
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Not proud of the original inspiration really....but I went to Riverdance with my girlfriend and her parents (future wife/in-laws), and being a musician, focused on the music rather than the dance. I was already very proud of my Irish heritage....and in the middle of all this pomp and grandeur, was a lone man in the middle of the stage, playing this unbelievably moving instrument....I'm not even sure I knew it was a bagpipe, but I did notice the way he played it with his elbow....bought the soundtrack, saw "uilleann pipes" and researched them. Then I abandoned all hope when I saw the price and the difficulty. 
But here I am....I've jumped in the pool. 
But here I am....I've jumped in the pool. "....if I had known then, what I know now...." e.v.
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yeah... i'm also one of the riverdance made me do it... lament was really pretty. which kind of sucks cuz now, after having listened to more piping, i can't listen to it any more. all the synth swells and whatnot kinda make me cringe.
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Being a dedicated fluter who didn't listen to piping CDs as much as flute, I'm not really sure, actually, except that one day I was presented the opportunity to get a pre-owned full C set (I was already partial to flat sets, especially C), bought it just to see how I'd like it, and became immediately hooked.
In spite of all.
In spite of all.
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Heard the pipes I was 16 and had to play them but could find nobody who taught or even had a set. Took almost another 30 years before I got a set.
Hard reed + heavy work commitments + no help = no progress so they stayed in their case until a couple of years ago.
New reed + new career + lessons =
Hard reed + heavy work commitments + no help = no progress so they stayed in their case until a couple of years ago.
New reed + new career + lessons =
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I answered the poll with...free pints....but actually it was a concert in New York with Bill Ochs playing the Fox Hunt...I was totally mesmorized. That planted the seed to play. As challanging as it can be at times - I find playing my Daye pipes soothing and relaxing after a hard day....and the free pints don't hurt either !
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I heard Liam O'Flynn on Planxty; Paddy on Chieftains 1 and saw The Chieftains in 1975 (1976??) at UCLA. I sat in the second row and tried to figure out what the regs did. Hooked ever since.
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Back in the early 80's, somebody gave me a tape of The Chieftains #7 and I knew then and there that was the instrument that had been reaching out to me from my dark and twisted dreams.
I had long been bewitched by the pipes, but after hearing the tape I knew exactly what the witch's name was. Also, a Minnesota piper named Tommykleen let me strap on his practice set and that was the final rusty hook that viciously penetrated deep into the tissue of my heart.
However, it took me over 20 years to finally obtain a chanter/bag and bellows of my own... and crappy ones at that... but I was able to get 'em going fairly well. Hopefully today will be the day my new set arrives... I am keeping my fingers crossed AND holding my breath!
I had long been bewitched by the pipes, but after hearing the tape I knew exactly what the witch's name was. Also, a Minnesota piper named Tommykleen let me strap on his practice set and that was the final rusty hook that viciously penetrated deep into the tissue of my heart.
However, it took me over 20 years to finally obtain a chanter/bag and bellows of my own... and crappy ones at that... but I was able to get 'em going fairly well. Hopefully today will be the day my new set arrives... I am keeping my fingers crossed AND holding my breath!
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I heard the sound of the pipes on an Emmylou Harris record about 16 years ago and loved it. So it was the sound really, 'cause I didn't know how the whole thing looked like. And a few years after got the opportunity to find a half set in Germany for a very very fair price and met good pipers (both French and Irish) soon afterwards who got me started. That's it...
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Sorry Lads..
Sorry Lads..
Riverdance it was..
The lament couldn't be played on anything else.
Knew I had to get a set of these beasties & make music with em'
Still lovin the big synth swells too..
Riverdance it was..
The lament couldn't be played on anything else.
Knew I had to get a set of these beasties & make music with em'
Still lovin the big synth swells too..
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It's all Patrick D'Arcy's fault!
Well, kind of indirectly, anyway. Pat was playing with Ric Blair's band at my church one day and I was hooked....on the whistle, which Ric's wife, Yun, was playing. (Sorry, Pat.) I started listening to Irish music to learn tunes on the whistle and somewhere along the way I started paying more attention to the pipes. It was all downhill from there, of course.
Well, kind of indirectly, anyway. Pat was playing with Ric Blair's band at my church one day and I was hooked....on the whistle, which Ric's wife, Yun, was playing. (Sorry, Pat.) I started listening to Irish music to learn tunes on the whistle and somewhere along the way I started paying more attention to the pipes. It was all downhill from there, of course.
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