A goofy question here, but does anyone know the pitch of the pipes Davy played in Riverdance?
I’m guessing a Concert D…
[ This Message was edited by: elbogo on 2002-08-20 05:04 ]
Yep, concert D. I’ve never heard Davy play a flat set (and I think he only makes concert pitch pipes), although I understand he’s moving back in a more traditional direction now…Perhaps this will change.
I’d love to hear him play in a more traditional setting..
Dionys
Davy Spillane, or Wavey Davey as we call him, once had the misfortune to share a dressing room with yours truly before a concert. I got to hear him play therefore in a small space without any amplification or effects and I have to say that he can really do the business. The tone and tuning of the pipes were quite exceptional.
Yes, right! I sent Davy an email quite awhile ago, telling him just the same thing. His piping is as pure as I’ve ever heard, by anyone, and the first thing I ever heard him play literally brought tears to my eyes (in a manly fashion, of course.) Honest.
That “crossing” stuff is rather bland, and he should put that inspired playing into something much more deeper, more Celtic, more ancient.
But thanks, for ID’ing the pipes. I wonder if he played his own? If his pipes sound like that, my search is over… I gotta have a set. Wonder how much his are… probably way out of reach and 5 years waiting time.
[ This Message was edited by: elbogo on 2002-08-21 03:30 ]
On 2002-08-20 22:11, Dionys wrote:
I’d love to hear him play in a more traditional setting..Dionys
I take it you all have missed the cd with Kevin Glackin then
A new CD, what is it called? I did indeed miss this.
elbogo,
Did Spillane reply to your e-mail?
To date, I’ve only found one person claiming to own or having to sell Spillane made pipes. Follow this link to see the ad:
http://www.pipers-hut.com/UPIL/sale.html
half way down the page you’ll find a guy in Denmark selling a chanter by DS.
On 2002-08-21 03:56, elbogo wrote:
A new CD, what is it called? I did indeed miss this.
Well, not exactly new, things are relative, I think it was out before christmas last year, try Custy’s website, they’ll have it listed
Hi all
I was just checking ebay and came across this sale;
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=899449674
The price was set at 7.95 american, so there you go, that’s my good deed for the day done!
Mark
Davy Spillane used to play a left handed crowley set with a Rowsome chanter. To mark Dublin’s millenium in 1988 all silver was stamped with a special assay stamp. Davy got Johnny Bourke to make him a new set using silver stamped with this assay mark.
This set was the one used by Davy after 1988.
I presume that he is still using this set.
Does anyone remember Davy starring in a film about Irish Travellers. The opening scene was of Davy playing All Round the World (the wise maid) while sitting on the steps of a horse-drawn caravan. The piping was lovely.
Cheers
John Moran
Davy sold the crowley set and plays pipes of his own make. Regarding buying pipes you don’t have to have Davys pipes to get the same sound. All you need is a decent chanter, after the that it’s all in the reed and the fingering. I have a friend here in Brittany who gets exactly the same sound as Davy but on a Froment chanter. When I play this chanter it doesn’t sound the same at all. It’s in the pressure and various cross fingerings and vibrato’s ect that give the effect.
Davy was 18 or so years old when he acted in Joe Comerford’s film “Traveller” back in 1981.
I personally don’t care much for the sound of his pipes, puts me in mind of a synthesizer. I did like his piping back in the days of the Piper’s Rock recording (1979)
STEAMPACKET…I agree, “The Pipers Rock,” albeit an old 33rpm record, was one of my favorites, “Rakish Paddy” was rock’n…the way Davey strayed and bent the notes…been try’n to play it like that ever since. I wish more CD’s of the old stuff was being made to replace the 33’s so I wouldn’t have to load it onto the computer and burn my own all the time.
Davey Spillane half set Concert D for £3000 UK STERLING… just got an email. Is that different than Pounds? Expensive. Brendan what do you think? I’m sort of leaning toward a half set by Davy Stephenson. Any good suggestions?
On 2002-08-21 12:30, Lorenzo wrote:
STEAMPACKET…I agree, “The Pipers Rock,” albeit an old 33rpm record, was one of my favorites, “Rakish Paddy” was rock’n…the way Davey strayed and bent the notes…been try’n to play it like that ever since. I wish more CD’s of the old stuff was being made to replace the 33’s so I wouldn’t have to load it onto the computer and burn my own all the time.
I was able to get a CD version of “The Piper’s Rock” in Cork City at the Living Tradition back in February. You might try shopping the Na Piobairi Uilleann online catalog, they probably still have it.
3000 Squids! That’s a lot of money for a half set from a maker no one really knows anything about. I saw a practice set him him years ago, narrow bore d. Nice enough sounding. I’m sure it’d be a nice set but I think he is charging so much because he isn’t really that interested in making pipes for customers and therefore wants to turn them off with his high prices.
Patrick.
DS and Kevin Glackin music samples online…
http://www.musicprom.com/e_spillane.html
Lorenzo,
Ossian USA also has “Piper’s Rock” on CD.