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by josh perkins
Wed Nov 24, 2004 4:44 pm
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: Simak full D set on ebay
Replies: 21
Views: 2839

$2600 for that set is the bargain of a lifetime. Happy trails to the lucky new owner.
by josh perkins
Mon Sep 13, 2004 4:46 pm
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: Becky Taylor's website
Replies: 51
Views: 7864

I have an album pressed by the NSP Society, the first track of which is the fifteen-year-old Becky Taylor making the NSPs sound like the fifteen-year-old Seamus Ennis would have if he could have. One hell of a piper.
by josh perkins
Sat Sep 11, 2004 10:17 pm
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: Gallagher 1/2 B set on ebay
Replies: 27
Views: 5175

Steve, I'm really sorry--ebay has set up a new system for e-correspondence between buyers and sellers that either has quite a few bugs in it or has me flummoxed. I got your e-mail and tried the usual method of replying directly, but obviously the text didn't make it. I also tried replying through th...
by josh perkins
Wed Sep 01, 2004 9:54 pm
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: Oz Makers to Avoid
Replies: 3
Views: 1053

This seems a backward way to go about it, unless you know the people offering these warnings awfully well. The same would hold true for the converse as well, but......Ian Mackenzie, you won't be sorry.
by josh perkins
Wed Aug 25, 2004 8:12 am
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: the reed and me
Replies: 4
Views: 1395

Thank you, gentlemen.
by josh perkins
Mon Aug 23, 2004 4:18 pm
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: the reed and me
Replies: 4
Views: 1395

the reed and me

Having recently acquired a half set in B, I was surprised to find that the famous "ease of playing/lessened pressure" phenomenon seemed to be absent. I find myself feeling like maintaining the second octave is a battle with the pipes and high A requires a pressure that destabilizes the bar...
by josh perkins
Thu Aug 19, 2004 8:06 pm
Forum: Uilleann Pipe forum
Topic: Politics
Replies: 3
Views: 959

If you expect anything Christy Moore's involved with to be free of politics........ :roll: