Foot operated bellows?

[bobblee001]

Im quite sure that back in the seventies I saw, on television, an uilleann piper using foot operated bellows. Did I imagine this or can anyone elaborate?

Cheers
Bob

[Seand]

Maybe you "imagined" it - after all it WAS the seventies

Sorry I can't help with your question but I just had to say something!!

[mukade]

It was probably this man

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=31851&p=404649

Mukade

[uillmann]

Yes, that was he, and born without a right elbow. A local craftsman made up a foot bellows for him that was mounted on a piece of plywood, and he was actually quite talented, although he only played left handed tunes. He also played the regulators with his right knee, and had his mainstock turned 180 degrees for that purpose. It was reported that he had fathered 12 children, 169 sheep, and 27 cows.

[MichaelLoos]

The link directs me to a thread about Ronnie Wathen.
Is this an april fooling, or am I doing something wrong?

[PJ]

A picture from NPU's site,

The tenor reg looks almost as long as the baritone on his set. Did it have extra keys?

[uilleannfinlander]

I remember that pic of footbellows piper was on first page of NPUmagazine ...(don't remember anymore what year it was.. early nineties?))

[MichaelLoos]

The tenor reg looks almost as long as the baritone on his set. Did it have extra keys?

There is an additional key for E, same as on the Kenna set pictured on the cover of "The Drones and the Chanters" Vol. I.

[Uilliam]

Piob Troigh

[djm]

Píob troightheán?

djm