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Hi all, I just moved to LA a couple weeks ago and was wondering where the good places to hear irish music and pipes in particular were. I saw a trio play last week in Santa Monica. They were very nice players, but they were more of a house band, not a real session. Plus no pipes to be heard. I'm cur...

I hope you guys aren't having it at Peter's house. While him and his wife are extremely hospitable and would do their best to accomodate everyone, his house is way too small for that many people, and parking is non-existent in that area. I'm with L.B. on this. A high school gym or church basement wo...

A neighbour of mine,s daughter is looking for a husband .She,s not fussy as long as you wear trousers ... Hey, I'm an uilleann piper, which means that not only do I wear trousers, but I'm rakishly handsome, debonair, and I'm packing the kind of tackle one would normally expect to see swinging betwe...

Hey I've got something to swap! http://tinypic.com/oeng0 http://tinypic.com/oenx4 http://tinypic.com/oepet http://tinypic.com/oephe It's a Late 70's-Early 80's set of scottish smallpipes in A by Jimmy Anderson. The only problem is I haven't been able to get the chanter to play satisfactorily and I'm...

I seem to remember an Irish tune called Jenny Cock Your Beaver...really I can verify that there is in fact a tune with this name. In Gordon Mooney's collection of Border Pipe tunes, he has it as "Johnie, Cock up your Beaver." Which may have gotten mixed up with "Jenny Dang the Weaver...

Djm, I know exactly what caused my injuries. Simply overplaying. I was playing 3 hours a day consistently 5 or 6 days a week. When I talked to Todd Denman, he said that at his height of practicing, he played 2 hours a day at most, and not necessarily every day. He said most of his skill came more fr...

I think it's painfully ironic that this post should show up now that I've just found out that my playing days are more or less over. I've got all the classic symptoms this paper describes, but mine are permanent and occur when I'm not playing as well. I've had an MRI, nerve conduction test, x-rays, ...

RE: Scarcity of pipe makers in the future. I think that another way to look at it is that if we all as pipers make an effort to promote our craft and pass on what we've learned, we will increase the demand for pipes as a consequence. As long as there is a healthy demand, I think we'll always have pe...

Welcome to the club Mark! Is that you in your icon picture? Nice dreads!
James

They're way overpriced I think. For a little more you could get a whole penny chanter kit. Also, I'm not sure that these will necessarily work with pipes other than PC's because of the way the connecting hose is set up. I didn't see a connecting hose included with this. You definitely need the origi...

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James

Are you talking about M. Eskin's stuff? I never heard the story of him recovering his stuff. Did the chanter show up on ebay? Just curious, and glad to know he got his pipes back.
jd

I was just watching the Antiques Roadshow and it got me wondering what might happen if someone brought in some old pipes. Do you think those appraisers would actually know what they had? I know they use alot of reference works and databases of auctions to come to a price, but those things probably d...

Did Kynch's computer break? I was wondering why he wasn't around anymore.
jd

Maybe it wasn't so much the tune that grabbed you as the style of the particular performer. Do you know who the performer was on the recording of Planxty Burke that you liked? We could perhaps give you some tips on similar sounding performers.
jd