Tommy Reck

[Brazenkane]

[quote=" That's the only flaw with Stone in the Field, really... no regs. "

[/quote]


"Flaw" the man says?????


...oh, for the love of God.........!

[PJ]

This was already posted, but here's a YouTube clip of Tommy Reck and Peadar O'Loughlin. Would that be the Kenna set Tommy is playing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5eG8ozCmyg

[Patrick D'Arcy]

It is - amazing set of pipes.

Pat.

[Ceann Cromtha]

Count me in too. Thanks so much.

[Key_of_D]

So when does the learning piper study the art of pipe smoking while playing, does that come before or after the regs?

[uillmann]

But who, pray tell, might that young bearded lad be? This very early, (and obviously hand-tinted) daguerreotype, must surely have been taken in that by-gone era, long before american footballs became so pointy.

[Uilliam]

He isnae actually smoking the briar but sooking on it.Those metal pipes were very good for that.It helped him not to pull those strange and often comical faces that ye see on loads o pipers.
I think a new CD would be very popular indeed.
Uilliam

[o'corragain]

I'd like to add my thanks for your reedmaking book, Pat, and express my interest in any recording of Tommy Reck. I have the Stone in the Field, which I downloaded from a commercial site where it was available at $0.99 a track.

David

[carel]

I am also interested in the recordings
btw, on the cd "humours of holland" (20 years Dutch Uilleann Pipers Club)
are four recordings of Tommy Reck (tionol 1989)

Carel

[tommykleen]

Have you pitched the idea to NPU?

Tommykeenonreck

[o'corragain]

The Stone in the Field is available at
http://www.amazon.com/Tommy-Reck/dp/B000RZA3F0

David

[Patrick D'Arcy]

Wow! Green Linnett up to their old tricks... nice!

PD.

[Kevin L. Rietmann]

I am also interested in the recordings
btw, on the cd "humours of holland" (20 years Dutch Uilleann Pipers Club)
are four recordings of Tommy Reck (tionol 1989)

Carel

I have to remember to get that from NPU. I do have some video of him that one of you fellows made, very beautiful take of the Coolin in D. I recall Peter or Robert saying that his pipes had tough reeds in them, too.

Did you retrieve your S in the F tapes in full, Pat? Great album, he hits some wonky notes here and there but who cares? It's very up close sounding, which is nice. On other recordings he might be a little more confident and the regs are going, but the sound is altogether murky. I do have one lone track of him recorded in 1969, playing O'Carolan's Concerto; nice but we have the Gael-Linn recording already, on my rec the regs sound like guitar distortion.

NPU are really dragging their heels by not putting something together of him. "Master Piper" is what we have here. The Peadar O'Loughlin tape in of itself would do, can't imagine Peadar standing in the way of such a project.

[KAD]

Pat, you'd be doing everyone a huge service to bring out those Reck recordings yourself, if NPU is not interested. I hope you decide to do it!

Cheers,
KAD

[Uilliam]

The Stone in the Field is available at
http://www.amazon.com/Tommy-Reck/dp/B000RZA3F0

David

Only to US customers.