Thank you for your condolences. Please enjoy all these videos. I am so glad that we will have his videos here to show his grandchildren and ourselves. He will never be forgotten.
I want to be this man when I grow up. He seems like he would be an absolutely incredible granddad and a wonderful father. _Requiescat in Pacem_ Bear the Tinker.
I just found this video and it is so sad to hear he is no longer with us. I have played the Highland pipes and I can say that every piper playing solo has his or her way of playing, it's called Expression. It comes from the Heart, through the fingers and into the instrument. When I played with the band I had to adapt to the band's style, but on my own I played what I felt, slower, faster what ever the mood. No, not everyone plays technically correct but can still sound very good. Technically correct can be very sterile and is for competition where you have to be note perfect. Bear plays from the Heart.
As a student of the GHB, you should have been taught to love the "note-perfect" style... No one wants to hear your weird versions, however clever they may be.
@@giuseppelogiurato5718 and that's the problem with GHB playing today. It has become too rigid and regimented. However, this makes sense, as the GHB is used for a lot of very formal, ceremonial purposes rather than for folk-style musical expression.
You are a man that i can look up to. In Nature interacting with animals playing tunes that sound relaxing to ancient souls. I Love your singing Voice and You look amazing in your Videos. I play bagpipes aswell and you are Inspiring. Best wishes
Wonderful video. The cat, the wood fire, the lake and the music transported me to a place where I'd like to sit for a while. When I showed this to a friend, she asked me to print out a screen shot to put on her refrigerator. I made two prints and now we each have pictures of you by the lake with your pipes in our apartments here in Seattle. Thanks!
Lovely unique way of playing the instrument! The sound is sweeter and would make you sit up and listen if you heard it unlike most of the modern pipers and the tiresome jazzy embellishment sound the are insistent on! Fair dues on you having had your own style i enjoyed it! RIP Bear!
That sounds like a children's story, in a wonderful and poetic sense.There is a children's poem called "The Magic Wood", I think that's the title.Its scary but part of it sounds similar to this tale(He taught me to make an apple pie with a horseshoe).
I figure cats-like dogs-have sensitive ears. I used to practise my oboe in h.s.for band and our dog Smokey wouldn't even stay in the same room with me.
Fun playing it looks like you had :-) I was wondering, it looked like you nestled the bottom of the chanter in with the drones. I believe that means when you sounded the low note, D probably, it was always an open D, is that right?
Cracking music considering the technique! A lot of obvious skill from his playing here but unfortunately he's playing the instrument wrong! A lot of possibility for amazing playing if only he put the chanter (stick) down on his lap to play!
B Leger Loveland He has the chanter (playing stick) resting on the drones. Uilleann pipes were originally pastoral pipes which could be played with bears style but uilleann pipes like the one bear is playing had part of the chanter (playing stick) removed so to play them you have to create a seal at the bottom of the chanter (playing stick) by resting it on your tigh , otherwise you end up playing them like Highland bagpipes and not for their intended purpose 🖒😊 hope the info was useful
Alas, Bear the Tinker passed away a few years back so he will never benefit from your obvious expertise. :( Saw him play live sitting around a campfire when I was a wee lad. I don't care if he was playing an instrument wrong. That night was magic.
@@fullstrutn It isn't good practice to play every note off of the leg. This tends to make the notes sound in a flatter pitch. Especially in the second octave, it's better to have the chanter on the leg due to the way the air flows. You will notice that all throughout this video, Bear never plays any notes in the upper octave; he stayed in the lower octave the whole time. So he was only using the Uilleann chanter to half of its potential.
