seamus ennis, god of uilleann pipes
Backseamus seen here demonstrating his genius ability to play the most difficult uilleann pipes.
worlds most famous piper
Channel: Music
Uploaded: September 4, 2006 at 4:29 am
Author: peabodyharris
Length: 00:03:09
Rating: 4.88
Views: 133511
Tags: seamus ennis uilleann pipes traditional music
Video Comments:
vivaldizz (January 5, 2009 at 4:15 pm)
The uilleann (elbow) pipes were developed in Ireland by the Anglo-Irish Protestant community in the early 18th century. There are many historical records of protestant clergymen in Ireland playing them in the 18th and 19th century in Ireland. The bellows-driven Northumbria pipes were developed in England around the same time.
MuntucoGer1 (December 27, 2008 at 1:24 pm)
Beautiful. Thank you for posting
Fartloading6Fartload (December 25, 2008 at 9:44 pm)
how are the keys on the chanter even operated? do they hit them while they're playing or what?
RitchieFarrant (December 30, 2008 at 9:42 am)
yep, hit them while your playing...
or did you mean the regulators? there are 2 keys on his chanter, the one at the back is for high D I'd assume. on most normal chanters this would just be a hole which you'd cover constantly while playing, releasing it just to play the high D when ya want it.
hope that helps!!
or did you mean the regulators? there are 2 keys on his chanter, the one at the back is for high D I'd assume. on most normal chanters this would just be a hole which you'd cover constantly while playing, releasing it just to play the high D when ya want it.
hope that helps!!
sfields619 (December 25, 2008 at 2:11 am)
at certain parts the song sounds like that romantic melody from the movie Titanic. This guy is a genius though.
oscoe (December 23, 2008 at 4:22 pm)
wonderful
TinkerbellzZ101 (December 22, 2008 at 7:03 am)
basically you start of with a pracitce set this just has the chanter bellows and the bag. Then you go on to the 1/2 set this is the chanter bag bellows and the drowns.When you have marsted playing the drowns then you go on to the 3/4 set this in when you have the bag,bellows,chanter,drowns,and some regulators. Then when you have completed playing all of these you gwt a full set which is basically then end but with more regulators
spannerotoole (December 19, 2008 at 10:44 am)
He's a shameless menace :)
michaelledingham (December 19, 2008 at 5:59 am)
uilleann pipes are much harder to play than great highland bagpipes, there's 7 pipes on a full set of uilleann and only 4 on bagpipes. Ive played highland bagpipes for 11 years and considered trying uilleann, it's a completely different set-up!
brilliant sounding instrument though!
brilliant sounding instrument though!
boxplayer2 (December 18, 2008 at 7:17 pm)
peabodyharris- r u saying in the info box that the pipes are a difficult instrument to play in general, or this particular one is more difficult than the others?