Post by Dick Glasgow on Sept 27, 2009 2:23:15 GMT
Last Thursday night we had Uilleann, Border & Scottish Smallpipes at our session in Portrush, then last night in Bushmills, we had a different Uilleann Piper, plus the Scottish Smallpiper & a Northumbrian Piper!
Now as a Fiddler I just love playing along with Pipes, although last night was hard work, because I had to tune back & forward between the Uilleann & Scottish Smallpipes, all night long as they were never exactly in with each other.
However, as the venue was pretty warm, the Pipes weren't on their best behaviour & although I did manage to play my Wheatstone along with the Northumbrian Pipes a few times, even if I had known the Scottish or Uilleann tunes on my Concertina, I couldn't possibly have played it.
With some instruments I find you can sometimes get away with it, if they are not exactly in tune, but with Concertinas & Pipes, if they are not bang on .... to me they just seem to SCREAM at you!
How common is it, to have a variety of different pipes at your session & how do you cope with them?
Cheers
Dick
Now as a Fiddler I just love playing along with Pipes, although last night was hard work, because I had to tune back & forward between the Uilleann & Scottish Smallpipes, all night long as they were never exactly in with each other.
However, as the venue was pretty warm, the Pipes weren't on their best behaviour & although I did manage to play my Wheatstone along with the Northumbrian Pipes a few times, even if I had known the Scottish or Uilleann tunes on my Concertina, I couldn't possibly have played it.
With some instruments I find you can sometimes get away with it, if they are not exactly in tune, but with Concertinas & Pipes, if they are not bang on .... to me they just seem to SCREAM at you!
How common is it, to have a variety of different pipes at your session & how do you cope with them?
Cheers
Dick
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