regulator mania

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Sorry for the alarmist topic title...

A friend of mine plays harmonium, and I think regulator style playing on the harmonium could sound kind of groovy. I'm wondering which pipers use the regs the most, to serve as a model.
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Leo Rowsome.

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Tintin why don't ye just learn to play the regulators :boggle: it would be much easier than tying your friend and the harmonium to your set now wouldn't it?
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Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin's first recording (Gael Linn CEF 046) had a couple of tracks (The Salamanca a la Tommy Reck and, I think, Jockey to the Fair) played on harmonium , with "regulator" accompaniment.
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Uilliam wrote: it would be much easier than tying your friend and the harmonium to your set now wouldn't it?
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We live in the twenty first century now Uilliam, we have Krazy Glue for that sort of thing. :P
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Uilliam wrote:Tintin why don't ye just learn to play the regulators :boggle: it would be much easier than tying your friend and the harmonium to your set now wouldn't it?
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I feel so .... so ..... violated! :o

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Yes, next time you post on the uilleann board, mon ami Tintin, please do us all a favor and dose us up with Rohypnol.

But didn't you ask about playing on the harmonium and using simple perhaps rhythmic chordal accompaniment on the harmonium? Or were you asking about someone playing UP with regs with someone else playing harmonium?

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Joseph E. Smith wrote:
Uilliam wrote: it would be much easier than tying your friend and the harmonium to your set now wouldn't it?
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We live in the twenty first century now Uilliam, we have Krazy Glue for that sort of thing. :P

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one name comes to mind when i hear "regulators"

Mikie Smyth

go to his web page or to the dutch pipers club home page and youll get as much regulator as you can handle.
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Joseph E. Smith wrote:
Uilliam wrote: it would be much easier than tying your friend and the harmonium to your set now wouldn't it?
Uilliam
We live in the twenty first century now Uilliam, we have Krazy Glue for that sort of thing. :P
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here are two ancient cave drawings showing how to hold the pipes and a close up on regulator playing
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or ye can use string to tie the harmonium and player thus allowing freedom for toilet breaks etc... :wink:
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Uilliam wrote:
Joseph E. Smith wrote:
Uilliam wrote: it would be much easier than tying your friend and the harmonium to your set now wouldn't it?
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We live in the twenty first century now Uilliam, we have Krazy Glue for that sort of thing. :P
But that wouldnae be traditional ...
Sometimes one must break with tradition in order to do the job correctly.

BTW, are you calling me a Neanderthal... I mean, I do have Geico car insurance and all that... but really... :P
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Post by pancelticpiper »

about most ever-present reg playing, Finbar Furey has to take the cake. I jig after jig he's hitting the regs four times per bar. I've never heard Rowsome or anyone else hit the regs four times a bar on a jig throughout the entire set of jigs.
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pancelticpiper wrote: I've never heard Rowsome or anyone else hit the regs four times a bar on a jig throughout the entire set of jigs.
Perhaps you need to listen to more Leo. :D
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"Paddy's Rambles Through The Park" on Ronan Browne's The Wynd You Know has simple harmonium accompaniment with and uilleann pipe chanter and fiddle playing in unison, just for an idea of how this sounds.
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