What an excellent tutorial on the Uilleann Pipes. I love the Scots / Highland Pipes, but the Uilleann pipes just touch my soul in a different way. They have a tenderness and longing to their sound that is uniquely Irish. Beautifully played here. I’m a little jealous of your lucky audience. Well done, all.
Oh definitely not. Bag and uilleann pipes bring great emotion out of me. I definitely have celtic blood somewhere in me. I've met people who think it sounds annoying. It's one of the most beautiful instruments to me
Nahhh luv. Im btitish and yet the pipes are the only instrument thats ever brought a tear to my eye. No lyrics, just the mysyical and haunting sound of the pipes. As much as i love the deepness of the Scottish pipes, i find the irish pipes are just more . . . agile? Can't think of the word, hope you know what i mean.
Did you ever play/hear Cooley's Reel played at march speed? It turns your blood cold, so awesome. I could imagine it in those days, 'deliberate walking out from your home at midnight carrying your pike along with your comrades, into the unknown.
@@karenpereira4191 Aye, for a visit at least. However, there is that in our big scrappy Republic that nourishes my very soul, less by a perfectly good accident of birth than by deliberate choice. I felt a like sense of homecoming on the baking plains of southern Kenya: _Here Is The Place Man Began._ Caps. Italics.
People like these play a vital part in keeping human ancestral traditions alive. We all owe people like this a lot. Even if you don't care about this, your children really might or their kids and so on and so on. Music, Art, Cooking, Fighting, Language. The list goes on and on. What ever you heritage, your ancestors had/did something unique and it's up to us to carry this on or it WILL be lost to time. God bless mankind
Beautiful, a virtuoso on the Uilleann Pipes! I don't know why, whenever I hear these beautiful sounds of these instruments, I feel like I'm at home! My heart warms up when I hear this beautiful Irish music!
The Slow Air being played I guess was made famous by Liam O'Flynn and Planxty and is called (in Irish) "An Buachaill Caol Dubh". I would suggest you also check out any of Davy Spillane's music, Midnight Walker for example and many others. Also check out "Gol Na Mban San Ar" (The crying of the women amongst the slaughter) by Blackie O'Connell and Cyril O'Donoghue which you can find here on you tube. Good luck and enjoy the music.
@@Lissadell1916 Firstly I have to thank you very much for the reference "An Buachaill Caol Dubh", now I know something about the recommendation of this beautiful music. And now for the suggested music to listen to, both tracks are very nice, but my favourite personal favourite is Davy Spillage - Midnight Walker and what's fascinating about the beautiful sound of the Irish pipes is that it's an enchantment. I look, right now on the screen of my laptop Midnight Walk is running at RU-vidr in the video clip is just a picture of a vast landscape wrapped in sunset, I hear the first notes of music and look at this one picture. I relax with the music and suddenly the clouds are moving in the picture, glowing in red/orange, and it looks like the clouds are moving from left to right, that's what makes this traditional Irish music something very special for me And I feel like I'm coming home
@@likeahurricane3296 No, thank you for your reply. I was once introduced to Davy Spillane by Blackie O'Connell at a pub in Doolin, Co Clare, (talk about being speechless) and I told Davey that I though Caoineadh Cu Chulainn by him was my favourite piece ever, however Davy thought Midnight Walker was better (I guess because he wrote it) and of course he was absolutely right and I was wrong. But check out Caoineadh Cu Chulainn from River Dance played by Davy, it's still a beautiful piece of work. There is also a fast piping live piece called "The Pontiff's Reel" on RU-vid by Davy when he was with Moving Hearts (later released as Downtown) which is to me still one of the most brilliant and iconic live pieces ever on the Uilleann Pipes..Check it out. Also check out Blackie O'Connell who is easily for me now one of the top four living Uilleann pipers on the planet and also playing live with a trad band called Dubhlinn Band (Band-Dubhlinn). Who knows, we both might meet in a pub in Doolin sometime when the place is jumping and Blackie is "on fire", a wonderful sight to behold and an experience you will never forget...Enjoy the music and good luck to you. 👍
Why make a mockery of the bagpipes both pipes are beautiful and unique in their own way ,and should be both cherished and respected by eachother after all Irish and Scots are Celtic brothers , from a a Scots Irish man 🇮🇪♥️
@@willikampl9890 Uilleann pipes are bagpipes though. "Bagpipes" is a class or category of instruments, not a single instrument in and of itself. If you're talking about the Great Highland Bagpipes as an instrument for war (and the Uilleann pipes for love), then that would be more specific. The funny thing is, I had a sort of argument with another commenter on another video on this topic... they kept on insisting that the uilleann pipes and the so called "bagpipes" are completely different instruments. Lol, utter bullshit. I was like "dude, call the "bagpipes" what they actually are... "the bagpipes" is not even the correct name for the instrument you're referring to, it's the Great Highland Bagpipes"! Wrote a long-winded comment about this and how that commenter was incorrectly naming and classifying instruments... and they didn't even bother reading it because to them it was more like a "novel". Lol! I gave up on even continuing the conversation.
I love the beautiful Uillean pipes, but does one have to bash a great instrument to promote another? No they don’t. I regret that this fella introduced the absolutely brilliant instrument that way. Irish Uillean pipes and Scottish Highland pipes each have their place and both, played by skilled musicians, are fun, beautiful, haunting and culturally enriching.
Yea I agree I don’t understand how someone could love but not the other. I strongly prefer the timbre of the uilleann pipes and I especially love well played regulators but the highland pipes are beautiful too. I think all pipes with a drone sound great
Bag Pipes were always played in Ireland especially when leading men into battle. In fact they're called "Píobaí Choghaidh" ie "War Pipes" in Irish. Uilleann (elbow) Pipes are indoor instruments. Gaelic Culture spread to the Islands and Highlands of Scotland from Ireland. Lowland Culture in Scotland is different but also very interesting as is the culture of North England and indeed all of England and Wales.
On me mudders side is Catholic. On me father's side is prodestant. I love the Irish side more because it's more musical than the other side. A feckin fine tunnnnne playing there now. ❤️❤️❤️👍🎶😁
Well presented in a relaxed manner. I play the first tune on a regular basis on a Geoff Woof Bb set, and my interpretation is exactly like yours, only not much on the regulators yet.
I’m predominately Irish Scottish, and a little bit German. I love the uilleann pipes as much as I love the Highland bagpipes, I don’t think one can compare which sounds better. It’s a matter of preference I suppose, but to me it’s like comparing apples to oranges.
In Ireland "Bagpipes" were Pìobaì Choghaidh - War Pipes. The Irish Clans moved into western Scotland - Highlands and Isles. When St Colm Cill moved to Iona from Derry in Ireland (he was banished) he moved to an Island already owned by his Clann.
@@w.reidripley1968 I agree. For two different purposes. The English invaders banned the Warpipes in Ireland as they were used by the native Clans. The Scottish Clans obviously kept the tradition going. Alban Abú!
Too many twerps comparing the Scottish and Irish pipes as if they were the only two in the world. Wherever there were ancient Celts there are now versions of pipes. Check it out. Cherish the Celt in you wheresoever they may be from. 😉
They have a beautiful haunting sound. I used to punish my kids by sending them to their room and make them listen to 2 hours of Highland pipes. They promised not to misbehave again.
Oh, how I love that sound! He's so right that U. P.s sound so much nicer than bagpipes. But in the right moment B. B.s are good as well. Not to offend any scottsman...
NO enemy was ever sent running away from the sight of a Mick sitting on a rock playing the Uillan pipes. Now many have run from a crazed Scot chasing them playing the bags..And no wonder an Irishman has a strong right arm...it's always in use. Don't mess with the kilt!
And yet when you had the chance to vote for Independence you said NO. Maybe you should go back to dresses etc because you don’t seem to be able to even vote for it 😂
It's no the bags they're rinnin frae. It's that bolshy great Jeddart-staff. Now if it's a mad Yank with the Claymore mine strapped to his chest and the detonator clicker in his right hand, that boy has one serious death wish and should be strictly avoided.
The bag pipes were banned in Scotland as they were seen as a rebel instrument now an english queen has her army play them the bagpipes may once have been great but now? Now they are a dream ost to time
@@conordarcy4663 Not alone were the pipes banned by the Butcher of Cumberland's brigade but so also was the tartan, the sporàn, the scian dubh, the claìomh mhòr and the gaelic language. These traditional trappings were commandeered by the new aristocracy when the Highlands were safely cleared of humans so the new lairds could boast their sheep. Still a great deal of traditional Scottish music has survived. Scottish reels in particular are played all over Ireland (Bonnie Kate, Miss McCleod's ) as are many North East English hornpipes. ('The high level' hornpipe).
Lovely piping but he doesn't seem to know much about bag pipes in general. Bag pipes were found all over Europe, and further afield, they are not a "Celtic" instrument. The Scottish Highland pipes and the Uileann pipes are both bagpipes. Scotland has at least 3 types of bagpipes. Scottish Highland pipes are also very popular in Ireland, there are dozens of bands.
The funny thing is, I had a bit of an argument with another commenter on another video on this topic. This commenter kept insisting that the uilleann pipes and the "bagpipes" are completely different instruments. Lol, what absolute rubbish! "Bagpipes" (even if you insert the word "the" before "bagpipes") are a class or category of instruments, it's not the name for a very specific instrument at all... that's just a fact! Anyone who flat-out denies it is a selfish idiot who thinks they're using logic and reasoning, which they're not!
@@oro7114 Right, and that's pretty much what I was getting at. "Bagpipes" are a whole family of instruments, just as "stringed instruments". If one is specifically talking about highland bagpipes, then it's better to say "highland bagpipes" instead of just "bagpipes". Really though, the bigger problem is that the highland bagpipes are so famous that people are seemingly completely oblivious to all the other bagpipes that exist in the world! I think that's the biggest reason why people simply say "bagpipes" or "the bagpipes" (and, BTW, I freaking hate it when people have to put "the" before "bagpipes") when they're actually referring to the highland pipes. Putting the word "the" before "bagpipes" sort of implies that there's a one and only bagpipe, which is not true and never has been.
They both derive from same tradition. Both pipes were brought to Scotland by the 'Scotti' when they migrated into the Highlands and Islands from Dal Riada in Ireland. When St. Colm Cille of Derry was banished from Ireland by the High King he settled in Iona which was part of his Clan's territory. A smaller version of the Uilleann Pipes still survive just south of the Scottish border in Northumbria. Bagpipes are called "Píobaí Choghaidh" in Irish, meaning "War Pipes". They were used to lead fighters into battle.
Great shame a good performance hits a bit of a sour note by slagging off another instrument. The two instruments both have their own places in traditional music and both have their own challenges and positive points. Uillean Pipes are complex in the use of octaves and regulator chords but because the Highland pipes are only one octave the fingering is actually more challenging. As a mouth blown instrument there is also a very major challenge in Highland pipes in managing moisture and it’s impact on tuning. Highland pipes are also an instrument that can be played together in numbers as a band which doesn’t work with Uillean pipes. I’d also say Highland piping is an art with much higher numbers of adherents worldwide, maybe because of the band opportunities granted. Unfortunately the ‘participation’ aspect allied to the difficulty of the instrument means that poor quality playing and instruments can be too frequently heard which results in the denigration of the instrument in the uninformed. Of course the fact there are fewer Uillean pipers is probably because they play sitting down and are therefore easier to hit!
LOL, you ever heard of a thing called playful banter? They were not disrespecting the Highland bagpipes, it was a joke. Also, whoever said Uilleann pipes couldn't be played in a band? If you specifically mean a marching band, then that's a fair argument. But if you mean a band in general... then that statement is just wrong. Also, the Uilleann pipes have the advantage of being bellows-blown; this means you could play and sing at the same time relatively easily without having to temporarily stop singing to re-inflate the bag with your mouth. Try doing that with the highland bagpipes... it isn't possible, unless you could inflate the bag with an electric blower with a hose attached to said bag and blower (and this has actually been done successfully, although not while singing (as far as I'm aware)). The obvious disadvantage of the blower and hose idea is a lot more noise... the highland bagpipes are already pretty loud, so adding even more volume with a fairly loud electric blower... no thanks! :)
Yerra!! when they'd hear the Uillean pipes they'd surrender or maybe nod off to sleep and failing that we could give a blast on the Great Irish War Pipe.
@@ItsmeeSaoirse Therefore, you station the pipie at the military crest of the hill -- the infantry equivalent of 'hull-down' -- so direct fire doesn't get him and mortars take too long. Have him strike in on The Black Bear played in strathspey time, to send the infantry, not to mention the Jocks, over the top to smite the heathen, hip and thigh.
@@HROM1908 So you dislike audiences engaging with the music, even if that means making noise and clapping along? hmm... you're not gonna like rock concerts then, with that logic. Sorry... I will never understand why this kind of logic even exists. Audiences should have the freedom to express their appreciation of the music in different ways, which includes getting involved, clapping along, singing along, and so on and so forth. This is one of the reasons I really dislike classical music for example... audience engagement is not really possible... you won't hear an audience singing along with opera music... the average person would not be able to do that. This is why classical music is so elitist... meanwhile folk and pop music are for everyone, this is why you will undoubtedly hear people singing along at rock and pop concerts and things of that nature, because the music isn't so needlessly complex, which allows people to easily get involved and participate.
@@justinnaramor6050 It appears from your reply that you are very young and bright. I hope you have read all the replies. The one thing missing from your reply is respect for the performers.
@@HROM1908 "The one thing missing from your reply is respect for the performers". Did you ever stop to think that maybe clapping along with the music is one such way of showing respect for the performers? There is no one way to show respect. It is so idiotic of someone to think that we have only one "right" way to show respect for a performer! If you clap, or cheer or whatever, that means "hey, I like what you're doing, this is awesome, I'm intrigued, in fact I'm so interested I'll even get involved in the music"... I really don't think it should be viewed as a way of "ruining" the music. Besides, the performer in this video didn't seem to get upset over it. Yes, I read the other replies in this thread. And again... this whole mindset is ridiculous. Respect can be shown in different ways, depending particularly on culture. Some cultures clap and cheer while others just sit and listen. Why love one and despise the other? That's the impression I get from comments like this that complain about audiences clapping along or cheering or whatever... these people making such comments fail to realize that the way they choose to show respect doesn't have to be imitated by everyone else! OK, rant over :)))
A huge part of Scottish and Irish performances is actually the introduction to the song. That's known as "knowing your tradition" and spreading it. It also wonderfully combines Irish story telling with music.
