I was watching the recent Planxty DVD again today. In the talk before Andy Irvine's song 'My Heart Belongs in Ireland,’ Liam O'Flynn mentions that his pipes once belonged to Willie Clancy. This made me start to wonder about other famous pipers and their pipes.
I have seen famous player's pipes mentioned occasionally here, but it would be nice see a list of what pipes people are playing, or have played.
To start the ball rolling, does anyone know who made the C chanter Liam plays on Arthur McBride in the recent concerts?
This is pure curiosity, so post away
Mukade
Last edited by mukade on Sun Aug 08, 2004 10:46 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I think Mr Rogge could be top of the list or (2) either Geoff Wooff or Alain Froment, certainly three of todays big makers, "but" I'd put my money on
Mr Rogge, Its certainly is the best C chanter I've heard played up till today no doudt about that, I think its the same chanter he plays on "the pipers call" CD, track seven, certainly is something else but don't forget who's playing it, Liam O'Flynn a master piper. say no more!.
Patrick D'Arcy wrote:The flat chanter Liam is playing on the Planxty DVD is a Koehler & Quinn. Maybe DMQ could tell us more about this?
Patrick.
He does have one of our C chanters, the one BK and I call "The Ugly Daughter." Whether it is the one he is playing on this recording, I can't say. I haven't seen or heard the recording.
Would the Rev. Father D'Arcy tell us if he was able to make a positive visual identification of it?
To answer my own query. I was looking through my uilleann links and I found these pictures on young piper Eliot Grasso's page.
Robbie Hannan has a Kenna B set, which I had the pleasure of hearing live 10 years ago in Northumberland. I have a great video, taken by Joe Crane, of that performance in the Chantry Museum. He always seems to play it with the bass regulator removed, as does Sean Og Potts. http://www.angelfire.com/md/UilleannPip ... Hpipes.jpg (of course that's Eliot, not a young Robbie )
Robbie plays a Rogge chanter on his B set and I was in Andreas'workshop some years back when he had just finished Liam O Flynns chanter and I had a chance to try it there.Beautiful instrument.
Martin Nolan plays a Rogge and then of course there is the (in)famous me!!!
Slan Go Foill
Liam
Patrick D'Arcy wrote:The flat chanter Liam is playing on the Planxty DVD is a Koehler & Quinn. Maybe DMQ could tell us more about this?
Patrick.
He does have one of our C chanters, the one BK and I call "The Ugly Daughter." Whether it is the one he is playing on this recording, I can't say. I haven't seen or heard the recording.
Would the Rev. Father D'Arcy tell us if he was able to make a positive visual identification of it?
We call it the Ugly Daughter because it was the only one we ever made from a wood called Sacau. A shot in the dark. The wood is not much to look at, and it smells like stale buttered popcorn when it's being worked.
The chanter was in the shop when Liam visited, he was quite taken with it, and so he took it with him.
If you go to the Tara music site you will see Liam playing this old looking set in Mukades picture "but" not with the K&Q chanter , on the video clip, the pipers call ,he is playing the oringinal chanter which was made for the set, a black ebony chanter with silver top, Video clip, Muineira de Poio, featureing Carlos Nunez, I think you may find that set, is an old set with a Froment chanter, or it maybe an early Alain Froment set.
stew wrote:If you go to the Tara music site you will see Liam playing this old looking set in Mukades picture "but" not with the K&Q chanter , on the video clip, the pipers call ,he is playing the oringinal chanter which was made for the set, a black ebony chanter with silver top, Video clip, Muineira de Poio, featureing Carlos Nunez, I think you may find that set, is an old set with a Froment chanter, or it maybe an early Alain Froment set.
That is Sean Reid's famous Leo Rowsome set. Liam inherited it possibly? He just popped in the K&Q chanter for the tune he needed the flat chanter on.... Little Musgrave was it?
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, on the video clip, the pipers call ,he is playing the oringinal chanter which was made for the set, a black ebony chanter with silver top, Video clip, Muineira de Poio, featureing Carlos Nunez, I think you may find that set, is an old set with a Froment chanter, or it maybe an early Alain Froment set. 
