Brisbane Pipers

Uilleann Pipes
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Hi all,

I’ve added some photos of our Brisbane pipers’ fortnightly meeting to my website (and some new tunes :slight_smile: ).

Check it out if you have nothing better to do -

http://home.iprimus.com.au/ausdag

Click on ‘What’s New’.

Cheers,

DavidG

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David,
That website of yours is going from strength to strength - Good work. I especially like that you recorded ‘The Milliner’s Daughter’ as this is my favourite tune to both listen to and play.

Keep up the good work.

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Thanks Goldy. Yeah - I love that tune. And you know, the best thing about recording tunes, even if it’s on a crappy PC microphione, is I can sit and play it over and over and really get into criticising myself and setting myself tasks to work on ironing out things, and improving other techniques. Listening to other pipers is the best way to learn; listening to yourself is the best way to learn to sound like the pipers you listen to and to learn how to sound the way you want to sound.

Cheers,

DavidG

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David,
I’m with you on listening to your own recordings. My Brother is visiting from England at the moment and we recorded a short movie on his digital camera of us playing together - I cringed at every mistake when watching it back, but learned that the odd flat note doesn’t stand out as much as I thought they would while we were recording. Plus I realised for the first time how bloody beautiful my set of pipes sounds when you’re infront of it rather than on top of it.

I’m intending on posting a link to the movie when my brother uploads it onto his website (acoustic version of ‘Sweet Child ‘O’ Mine’ by Guns’N’Roses). I wish the recording was microphoned because I was dying to use a distortion pedal for the sections of the tune where Slash plays lead guitar (it’s good to occasionally get away from the ‘Diddly Diddly’ just for a laugh even though Seamus Ennis would turn in his grave at the idea of combining pipes with distortion pedals).

All the best.

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Goldy,
Good to hear someone else has had crazy ideas about putting pipes through effects pedals.
I don’t know how it would be done (in a studio I suppose) but I have always wanted to run GHBs through a wah-wah pedal!

Teflon

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Mic it like you would normally do, but attach a 1/4" adaptor to the end of the mic cable, then plug it into your effects… pretty simple.

By writting this, I have just sealed my fate and must henceforth ‘take it on the lamb’. Bye… :smiley:

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if you had a delrin chanter you could try playing it in a bucket of water - immersed up to the back D hole only though :smiley: