Your Path to the Uilleann Pipes

[BigDavy]

Rorybellows question about the number of Uilleann pipers got me wondering, as I have been seeing a growing trend among the younger GHB players here in Scotland moving into UP via small/border pipes.

My personal pathway was bodhran-smallpipes-uilleann. I actually had no real intention of trying UP, but the chanter on the smallpipes set I had was physically too hard for me to finger and when I tried a friend's uillean chanter my hands just fell into place.

So what is your pathway to the pipes?.

[CHasR]

So what is your pathway to the pipes?.

debt, alcoholism, public humiliation, mental anguish, prematurely grey hair, ulcer....
the usual.

[bensdad]

The Road to Ruin

[magroibin]

The Road to Ruin

Our fiddle player wrote a good jig called "The Road to Ruin". We pair it with a pleasant upbeat little song about a whore house...and death...oh well.
However, I play it on the whistle.

Fitting I guess as it was the whistle that paved the way for me to the pipes!

[Doc Jones]

Guitar- mandolin - Fiddle - Whistle - flute - UP

Still not worth a hoot on any of them.

Doc

[Pipewort]

Edvard Munch was a painter and uilleann piper. Not a lot of people know that.

Pwrt

[MarcusR]

whistle, flute and an underlying reformed mental disorder that unconsciously and continuously makes me choose a more difficult path in life.

Whats next

/M

[Uilliam]

Ma path to ma pipes......




Uilliam

[BigDavy]

Nice one Uilliam

David

[Jäger]

Starting out as a kid on the drums and the electric guitar. AC/DC being the hot thing along with Black Sabbath, Zeppelin, The Who, all that. Started to play the odd irish song on acoustic guitar and croaking along as a somewhat older kid, then it was the tin whistle, followed by nyckelharpa, followed by mandolin, followed by tenor banjo, followed by some tension releaving hammering on a bodhrán, and at last the pipes. Now a days practice time is mostly spent with the pipes, nyckelharpa and whistle. And drums. Gotta love the drums. Unless you live next door to a drummer, obviously.

[Bill Reeder]

Guitar > banjo > mandolin > fiddle > whistle > Northumbrian and Scottish smallpipes > Uilleann pipes.

The Road To Ruin is a tune I heard on a Todd Denman recording.

X:111
T:Road To Ruin
R:reel
C:Todd Denman
Z:Bill Reeder
M:C
L:1/8
K:G
AE~E2 ABcA|BG~G2 DGBG|AE~E2 ABcA|BedB gedB|!
AE~E2 ABcA|BG~G2 DGBG|A3A B/c/d ed|gedB BAA2 :||!
e2^ce aece|gedB GABd|e2^ce aece|gedB BAA2|!
[1 e2^ce aece|gedB GABd|e3^c d2 d/e/f|gedB BAA2:|!
[2 a2ab agef|gedB GABd|e3^c d2 d/e/f|gedB BAA2||

[waymer]

Edvard Munch was a painter and uilleann piper. Not a lot of people know that.

Edvard Munch was a painter? Dang, you learn something new every day.

[Cathy Wilde]

I took up the pipes to improve my flute-playing. Now I'm a crappy flute player AND a crappy piper.

[Jarlath.I]

Started as orchestral tuba player, but got tired of never playing the melody. I still play the tuba, but love the pipes more. I can't believe that moving from tuba to pipes isn't more common (and not one of the choices in the poll).

[carel]

Edvard Munch was a painter and uilleann piper. Not a lot of people know that.

Pwrt

hey I didn't know that
what do you know more about it?
is there a photograph or something