emmdee’s two hundred and seventy-seven comments

Someone who doesn’t maybe get the credit he deserves as a piper, possibly because he’s always played with The Chieftains, is Paddy Moloney. His piping is stellar. Finbar Furey should always get a mention among the great living pipers, too. more…

I love the smell of my fiddle, and my flute (when it’s been freshly oiled & polished) smells of leather balsam, silver polish and Roy McManus’s own-brand bore oil which is slightly lemony. Lovely! more…

Wow, that is a generous offer! If I didn’t already have one, I’d be in like Flynn. They’re useful for playing with a singer, in addition to other things. more…

You’ll almost never hear anyone say a bad word about Gilles Lehart’s flutes. and you can get a 6 keyed one for less than 2000 Euro. more…

Played with Coig at Orkney Festival last year. Lucky enough to see them up close and they blew me away! I haven’t enjoyed a band as much for years, and Jason is a beast on the old Joanna. more…

Basically there isn’t a machine-built “tweaked” whistle. The tweaking is generally done by people who don’t make the whistles they’re tweaking. And they have to play them to be sure what they’re doing works. more…

My tuppenceworth… more…

Traditional singers would also include English language singers, so I would add Len Graham, Roisin White, Jackie Boyce, Maurice Leyden, Paddy Tunney, Geordie Hanna, Eddie Butcher, Joe Holmes, Sean Corcoran, Francy Devine. more…

Hi Dick more…

Just my opinion, but I think that reels can be played anywhere between “leisurely” and “furiously”. Some players could easily play a reel at 128 bpm (e.g Frankie Gavin). more…