Early recording of Liam O'Flynn

Uilleann Pipes
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This is from the comhaltas site. Recording of Liam O’Flynn playing 3 reels from 1967. Sorry if this came up before…

http://comhaltas.ie/music/detail/the_boy_in_the_gap_the_mistress_of_the_house_the_cup_of_tea/

I wonder how long he had been playing for at that stage…

Y.

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No need to apologise. It’s new to me, and I’m thrilled.

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This air:

16 Song: Mary on the Banks of the Lee Anne Mulqueen (Singer)

I learned as a lovely flute air played by Mark Hughes on the 1976 LP Light Through The Leaves --Traditional Irish Wind Instruments CD from Rounder, which consists of an uneven batch of recordings made by Mick Moloney of various wind players in the eastern US.

I’ve never heard in any place else, but here’s the same tune as a song.

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It doesn’t sound to me like Liam O’Flynn - particularly the reg accompaniment - but I could be wrong.

The website credits the piper as Liam Flynn. Isn’t there a piper called Liam Flynn, no relation to LOF? Could this be him?

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It doesn’t sound to me like Liam O’Flynn

It’s Liam alright. This was recorded when he was still very much influenced by Leo Rowsome.

Tommy

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You are correct. Early Liam O’Flynn sounds little like the Liam O Flynn we are used to hearing.

7

This must be a perenial question, but does anyone know how to capture this kind of stream?

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I find it interesting the extent to which a great many pipers were taught at least initially by Leo Rowsome, but hardly any actually sound like him that much. Liam O’Flynn, Paddy Moloney, and Eoin Duignan (just to name but a few) all learned from Leo and they’re almost about as stylistically different from one another as you can get.

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I wonder if that’s the sign of bad teacher, or a great one?