Had a saturation of UP players

Uilleann Pipes
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Wow,

It must be Christmas, I got to spend some time with my two (outta three) favorite uilleann pipers this week.

Got to chat and play a few tunes with Eamonn Dillon while he and his wife Erin were cruisin on the Fascination, where I appear as a stand-up comic. There couldn’t be a nicer man on the planet, very friendly, accommodating, with a love for the music and the instrument that is heartening. A great player too. http://www.eamonndillon.com

Then yeaterday, I got to see my buddy Zack Leger, a piping marvel living near me in east Tennessee. I sat in on a gig with the band Zack plays with called Sigean, http://www.sigeanband.com, (or Shee-Gun as the local newspaper tend to label them, or even Frank Wing and the Smokey Cabin Boys ;^)

I was playing bodhran and dobro. I get to sit in from time to time with the band and they are marvelous, wonderfully talented people, and as Our Father Dale Wisely will attest, Zack is phenomenal. We always have a great time playing together.

Be sure to get Eamonn’s CD and Sigean are going into the studio in spring.

I’ll hopefully get my DD set soon (before Christmas hopefully)and be annoying these guys. Two great musicians, what a week!

Timmy

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Timmy,thanks for answering the age-old question, “What do you call a group of pipers?” A saturation! :wink:
Susan

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I have heard the term " a poverty of pipers" used before. And a fitting term too on all counts.
Cheers
Alan

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A “saturation” of pipers works for me. I like terms that have several connotations anyway…and this one would work for all, even those who get “fed up.” :wink:

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Three of us were playing in Glasgow this weekend and another musician (guitar) called us a “plague of pipers”
Slan go foil
Liam

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How about a “Squeeze” of pipers? Seem as appropriate as a Poverty.

Irish music has been good to me… I have worked myself up from nothing to a state of massive debt and zero name-recognition.

Timmy

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I’ve heard two uilleann pipers playing together referred to as “twin geese”, so how about a “gaggle of pipers”? har har.