Does anyone know what kind of set Eric plays? He used a Childress flat set on Titanic, I believe, but I’m really curious about what he used on Braveheart. Was it the same?
And here’s a neat little blip of him doing Cooley’s Reel. The sound quality’s horrible, but what can ya do? Scroll down and listen to “And You” and he comes in like 30 seconds or so into it. I guess I’ve never heard that one done that slow, much less on the pipes, but hey, I’m new, what do I know? Anyways, I love it.
Joey
EDIT: Wow, I forgot to post the link. That’s it I’m going to bed.
Pardon me if I extend this thread a little, which may ultimately get to the main question here concerning Erics’ pipes… has anyone seen the PBS special on Aselin Debison, the 12 year old singer from Nova Scotia with the most incredible voice? Well, Eric Rigler can be seen playing those above-mentioned pipes throughout much of the performance.
PS. I think Eric played small pipes and Scottish pipes as well on Braveheart(?)
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Not sure about the Walsh/Rigler question, but one related to elbogo’s (excuse the digression), I’m trying to fugure who I keep seeing playing the uilleann pipes, on the PBS money drive special, playing with the Corrs…would this be Eoin Duigan?
The Corrs come in to back up Josh Groban on one number.
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Brian Walsh played a Johnny Bourke D set with a Bruce Childress D chanter and appeared on screen in the movie “Titanic”. Brian’s playing was not featured on the soundtrack DC but I think it was featured on the Vol. 2 CD which featuered the band Gaelic Storm, the band he used to be in.
Yep, Eric plays a stupendiously in-tune set of D Alain Froment pipes. He is a renound GHB player so it’s very likely he played them on Braveheart. However I don’t remember hearing GHB’s in Braveheart although I do remember seeing them and hearing uilleann pipes… something the GHB community were a bit miffed at from what I remember.
The only part of the film where highland pipes are heard played is one tiny bit of a battle scene. Piper starts playing a version of Miss McCleods Reel: quickly shot by arrows: groaning dying cow noises: no more highland pipes.
Marc
…isn’t there a scene…a burial scene for his fathers or some such where the up’s are played and they show an highland player?
My memory may be befuddled with other movies over the years where they’ve done this…drives me nuts!
They show one, but then use uilleann pipes for the tune. One related question though:
Sometimes when he hits a low D, it has a real “nyah” double tone sound. I don’t really care for it when my chanter does it. Am I wrong in trying to keep that under control or is this something we should strive for to add colour to our tone?
Marc
In my opinion the hard D is the only D uilleann pipers should be playing. Fair enough if you miss it and end up playing a soft D every now and again but the hard D is the true note to me. As far as I can tellt he soft D was a product of the eighties.
I guess I just like the soft D better. Hard D doesn’t seem so harsh in other pipers recordings: Chieftains, Sean Nua, Planxty or any of the lovely recordings on clips and snips. Very nice stuff!
Marc
Anyone see Eric Rigler playing his pipes on the Jay Leno Show last night? He was with Josh Groban. Those Fromant pipes looked fine, and sounded good too.
I watched that Groban music video from Patrick d’Arcy’s site. I am underwhelmed. This is music for people who listen to the radio and say “I like all kinds of music.” They have no favorite genre and cannot formulate opinions on much of anything. Their tastes are bland. I’m really surprised this guy would make the talk show circuit…goes to show what I know…right?!? The pipes were surely covered up in that tune played on the video. Might as well not have included them. Watch the video…see for yourself.
Surprised that Groban went on the circuit? Women fell in love with him on Ally McBeal and he’s been a star ever since. He’s an okay tenor. His song choices are pretty crappy, though.
