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Hey Guys, This evening my friends gave me an old Irish Flute, which I suspect is in the key of Eb. Due to the fact that it looks smaller then a modern concert D flute. It looks quiet old, I suspect that it could well be over 80 years old. I will post photo's later for those keen to identify who the ...

Hi, I'm in the process of considering getting another three keys fitted. I am sending my set back to the maker to get some much needed new reeds (I've had them for nearly three years, and the Queensland whether hasn't been to kind to them). At this point I'm embarking playing with other more (gasp) ...

Here is some more, sorry about the tuning before. I think my friend Kieran wanted to show his friends some more of the beast http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZI4SM7b4zU

Cheers L42B

Me playing my McKenzie set in D. Comments criticisms http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snxOSGEkIIU?

Cheers L42B

John McSherry, Davy Spillane, Liam O'Flynn, Donal Lunn, Paddy Glacklin, Andy Irvine, Christy Moore e.t.c talk about a powerhouse of musicians, gold.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siFQEirRC7o

L42B

This is excellent. Three pipers of the McPeak family and two harpists. The pipes are in tune also. The tune is The Coolin (Whispering Bells in Northern Ireland):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlS1spbu ... re=related

Cheers L42B

Hey Everyone, Over the last few months I have been busy in conjunction with Malcolm McClaren in organizing elements of Paddy's Australian tour. Linda, Paddy's manager has emailed me asking if anyone in Australia would be interested in doing a piping or reed making workshop on the 3 of April this yea...

Hey Guys, I've decided to look for a C (or Bb chanter). Recently I have been getting offers for a lot of orchestra work of late. Even just on a voluntary basis. A good D chanter is nice but C would fit better. It is preferable that the chanter be fully keyed with 5 or 7 keys and be in tune. A few sp...

It appears that we have a lot of interest in the Brisbane area. I will keep people posted and make a further announcement when more concrete details come to hand. That post will include venue, fees and times for the workshop(s).

Cheers L42B

Hey Guys, An inside source (Paddy's manager) tells me that Paddy Keenan will be touring Australia again early in 2009. Not all the dates are yet to be confirmed. I can tell you that he will be touring Queensland between March and April. It was hinted that if there is enough interest in a workshop; h...

First of all I'm an Uilleann Piper and Whistler by heart. So I don't know much about the squeezebox or harmonica. But I came across a person playing a Quebec box in C# and its accompanied by piano. To me the clip sounds very similar to the West Clare style in Ireland. There appears to be three diffe...

Hi Oliver I'm glad it has been. The work is really wonderful and there are some great moments in it. It proves yet again that bagpipes and orchestra can be a possible combination. Yeah your right the score is slightly different to the recording. Try convincing members of an orchestra that added unwr...

For those interested. The Mackay Choral Society, winner of last years North Queensland Eisteddfod will be performing Gilles Mathieu's Irish Mass. It is a free concert that will be performed on December 14. This is, we think, the first time the work has been performed outside of Lyon in France. I wil...

Hay Mukade, I think that set sounds like it would be somewhere between D and C#. But to me it sounds closer to D (I could be wrong though). The idea of pitched bagpipes from what I've been told is a relatively recent thing; say in the last 100 years or so. The fourth drone I believe is tuned like it...

Hay Tommy Yeah your right a fully keyed C# chanter would probably be better. Knowing the arranger and recording artist, he likes to remain true to the tradition. I don't think he'd go and do such a thing with recording equipment. Second I don't think the singer would wear such recording trickery eit...