Regulator Playing Poll

djm · Post by **djm** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 9:41 am

Would like to use them more, but am not up to that level in my piping. My goal is to get as conversant with them as Ronan Browne, but I'll have to figure out this chanter thing first.

djm

Antaine · Post by **Antaine** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 12:48 pm

I almost never use anything beyond one of three chords with sustained, end-of-phrase first octave Bs, As, and Gs.

pipemaniac · Post by **pipemaniac** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 3:51 pm

i just recently got mine !!!!!!

but for now i try to tune it

The Sporting Pitchfork · Sun Mar 07, 2004 7:06 pm

Nope. No regualtors now. Check back later.

I really am rarin' to get at the things though. It's funny, I sometimes find myself subconsciously reaching for them when they're not there. A bit like an amputated limb or something...

Patrick D'Arcy · Post by **Patrick D'Arcy** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 12:58 pm

Saw Michael Eskin yesterday at the SCUPC http://www.socalpipers.com meeting with his new Kirk Lynch tenor and baritone regs. They sounds really good with the rest of his Lynch set.

Patrick.

Pat Cannady · Post by **Pat Cannady** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 2:18 pm

Have'em and learning to use them little by little; I feel like maybe I'm getting better at them, the last couple of weeks have been kind of productive in terms of finding places in tunes to use chords and figuring out how to chop out the upbeats.

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 2:26 pm

I aspire to play them like Pat Fitzpatrick did on all his 78 rpm records

eskin · Post by **eskin** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 5:23 pm

Saw Patrick D'Arcy yesterday at the SCUPC http://www.socalpipers.com meeting with his old tenor, baritone, and bass regs. They sounds really good with my Lynch set.

Now if I can only learn to play my regulators half as well as he does, I'll be a happy piper...

Michael.

Patrick D'Arcy · Post by **Patrick D'Arcy** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 5:24 pm

HAHA! You were sounding pretty good to me Michael!

PD.

eskin · Post by **eskin** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 5:28 pm

I think I looked better than I sounded...

Got to get in the habit of giving the regs the pressure they require instead of unconciously treating them like organ keys... Too many times went for a reg only to get no sound...

Michael
Regulator Poser

Kevin L. Rietmann · Post by **Kevin L. Rietmann** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 8:08 pm

Peter Laban wrote:I aspire to play them like Pat Fitzpatrick did on all his 78 rpm records

Fitzpatrick sounded like this, playing a reel:

Bonk
[bar of piping goes by]
Bonk
[bar of piping goes by]
Bonk
[bar of piping goes by]
Bonk
[bar of piping goes by]

His jigs were different, more like this:

Bonkkkkkkkkkk
[two bars of piping go by]
Bonkkkkkkkkkk
[two bars of piping go by]
Bonkkkkkkkkkk
[two bars of piping go by]
Bonkkkkkkkkkk
[two bars of piping go by]

Very functional sounding music!
Bill Ochs told me he wasn't keen on Leo Rowsome at all until he tried playing for dancers...and then he understood!

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 9:20 pm

Excellent point, Kevin, but perhaps we should leave the dancers to the accordian players and save the UPs for "art music".

djm

Lorenzo · Post by **Lorenzo** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 10:41 pm

Nah, that's kindergarten stuff. Good dancers like the pipes, with or without regs. Paddy Keenan played this tune on his pipes for Michael Flatley at a dance competition when Michael was only 15 years old. Try playing it yourself, and I mean fast...with tight closed hole fingering like I heard Paddy playing it last year. (pssssst...and don't miss any notes, or cheat on the octaves)

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 11:06 pm

I like Willie Clancy's version better.

djm

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