Liam O'Flynns pipes
Liam O'Flynns pipes
Does anyone know the maker of Liam O's Bb set? I think he may play it on the piper's call video but I don't have it.
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in 1986 i attended a piping workshop in philadelphia that o flynn conducted. at one point during the evening he showed us the reed in his d chanter. he told us that the reed had been made in 1938! the reed was black with dirt on the inside. it sounded beautiful. does anyone know if that reed is still playing?
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The source is reliable but I don't think the reed is. The tone was not quite right in 2/04 when I attended a Planxty concert. An internationally known and well-respected piper in attendance with our group agreed and recognized the reed as probably the old Rowsome reed. LOF has had much better reeds in that chanter of late ("the best reed since Leo Rowsome made reeds" is fairly close to what he has said about a new reed in the past few years) but the main issue is that these were new and relatively unexplored. He knows that Rowsome reed, its nuances, behavior, and limits and precisely what it takes to get what he wants out of it. It is his trusted old friend....just as my 6 year old B. Koehler reed for the K&Q D chanter, a copy of the LOF Rowsome D I might add, has become my old friend.
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So the title of the CD should have been 'The Borrowed Note'??Peter Laban wrote:And he borrowed that off Mick O Brien for the occasion
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Didn't he inherit Willie Clancy's set? Commissioned by Reid, made by Rowsome, owned by Clancy, passed on to O'Flynn?
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According to O'Flynn, on the Planxty DVD intro to 'My Heart's Tonight in Ireland', Willie Clancy used to play his (O'Flynns) set - I take it that means he used to own it?
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Liam O'Flynn plays a Leo Rowsome Concert set,
Liam also plays Seamus Ennis's C# set made by Coyne.
He plays a C set, But!, the C chanter he plays on the Piper's Call is made by Adreas Rogge, and that is Fact, he may also play a Concert D chanter by Adreas Rogge a part from his old Rowsome big bore.
There is also played on the Piper's Call a Bnat chanter,but I don't know who the maker is or was,maybe some one can share some ligth on this one,but at a guess, I'd go for Adreas Rogge again.
Liam also plays Seamus Ennis's C# set made by Coyne.
He plays a C set, But!, the C chanter he plays on the Piper's Call is made by Adreas Rogge, and that is Fact, he may also play a Concert D chanter by Adreas Rogge a part from his old Rowsome big bore.
There is also played on the Piper's Call a Bnat chanter,but I don't know who the maker is or was,maybe some one can share some ligth on this one,but at a guess, I'd go for Adreas Rogge again.
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