Hi All,
Mister Patrick, who leads the GNIPC web team, has thoughtfully (re)posted some video clips of Billy McCormick on the website:
http://www.gnipc.org/tionol/tionol2003.html
Very inspirational!
Tommykleenex
Thanks,Great stuff,are those galloway pipes,obrian mabey,taylors?
From the article:
Billy had his famous Taylor set with him; the history behind this set is phenomenal. While playing his old set of pipes one day in Dublin, an American nun approached Billy and asked him his name. As it turns out, her grandfather, who was also named Billy McCormick, had played the pipes in Chicago during the early 1900s. She asked Billy if he would like to have the pipes her grandfather played; he did, of course, and soon received the set from America. After examining the pipes Billy found out that this set was none other than a William Taylor set made for “Kid” Eddie Joyce. After Joyce died in 1897, the “other” Billy McCormick had bought them and the rest is history. Francis O’Neill wrote an in-depth biography of “Kid” Eddie Joyce in his book Irish Minstrels and Musicians. Billy is currently playing his set with a Taylor-style chanter crafted by pipemaker Cillian O’Briain based in Dingle, Co. Kerry. Billy also had on hand a flat pitch chanter made by Geoff Woof. I had a chance to try out both and thought they both played with amazing ease. The attention to detail and tuning was without parallel.
Anyone know the names of the two hornpipes on video 2?
T