Monday, October 30, 2006
Mick O'Brien and Caomhin O'Raighallaigh
When I first heard a bootleg version of their unaccompanied duets (Kilty Lie Over), I was blown away. That was the sound I was after.
Still chasing that sound.
Still chasing that sound.
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Please enlighten me about those instruments. I see what appears to be an eight string violin. Are the secondary strings drones or are they touched by the bow? I also see some sort of pipe but nobody blowing into it, have they a slave hidden somewhere? Will you name these instruments?
I do enjoy your music posts. It's clear that American bluegrass has an irish cousin.
Thanks
Bill
I do enjoy your music posts. It's clear that American bluegrass has an irish cousin.
Thanks
Bill
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: 3:46 AM
: 3:46 AM
Bill - the pipes you see are the Uilleann pipes. Uileann is the Gaelic word for "elbow." The bag is inflated by means of a bellows the piper straps to his side and works with his elbow.
The fiddle design is Scandinavian - a hardanger fiddle, I think, but I could be wrong. Don't know how it's tuned off hand, but there are different tunings you can use.
There are many tunes that cross over directly from the Irish and Scottish traditions to the bluegrass community - Rights of Man, Red Haired Boy, The Cuckoo's Nest, Soldier's Joy, and Flowers of Edinburgh are well known in both worlds, for example.
The fiddle design is Scandinavian - a hardanger fiddle, I think, but I could be wrong. Don't know how it's tuned off hand, but there are different tunings you can use.
There are many tunes that cross over directly from the Irish and Scottish traditions to the bluegrass community - Rights of Man, Red Haired Boy, The Cuckoo's Nest, Soldier's Joy, and Flowers of Edinburgh are well known in both worlds, for example.
I know this post is about to drop off the front page, but...
What is it about this sound that you're chasing? I can't hear it, and don't know what it is about this piece that you're striving to achieve.
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What is it about this sound that you're chasing? I can't hear it, and don't know what it is about this piece that you're striving to achieve.
