I’m guessing this is a Irish type forum. but we need a GHB section. for starters…
any m8 out there play?
Lot’s of GHBers on this forum, most of whom are nice enough to keep quiet about it 
You’re more than welcome to join in the fun, but we need a GHB section like a fish needs a bicycle.
No E.
come on m8, we do compitions and all the uilleanns players do is play on sound tracks and get paid thouhsands of dollars and stuff…
Ok to be honist. i like the uilleann as a lesire instrument but they cost to much, beside, i’ve been after a set of vintage pipes, or some taylor uilleanns, but how can we say $10,000 and up?
If all we do is play on soundtracks and get paid thousands of dollars for it, maybe you should get a loan and buy a vintage set, so you can play on soundtracks and get paid lots of money too, and then you can pay back the loan, sell the vintage pipes for 100% profit and buy five brand new sets of highland pipes and some Tullamore Dew to boot 
Cheers,
DavidG
My pipe majors got some very old highland pipes exsisting from the English-Afrikaans war write through to the present day. Some of his sets including the one I have on loan is at least 60+ years old. Wonderfull tone and in great condition. Some are quiet valuable.
Paddy there are some pritty valuable GHB’s around the place. The older they get the more expensive they become (if in good condition). You can get a fully mounted Henderson [new] set for AU $10, 000+.
Cheers L42B
Don’t mean to hijack the thread, but it’s a myth that the old pipes are better than the new GHB.
:roll:
Also, let’s not get in a pissing match about GHB and UP. If you can’t get enough GHB ya-ya go to Bob Dunsire’s forum. If you must talk about GHB then talk about them in the context of Irish music and leave competitions to the sports.
I don’t know about Paddy, but I do make thousands a year with highland pipes. Not many thousands, but a few at least. It keeps me in beer, tools and ciggies. 
God how I dread this Thursday, though.
yes, im with you on that. i play many gigs with the band im in and solo gigs on both sets of pipes. its amazing how many people in bama get into the pipes and how much money they will pay 
i enjoy playing both. there are many irish tunes that will fit on the GHB pipes. i never played in a pipe band or had lessons from a pipe band. i was lucky and discoverd cape breton music, barry shears, rory campbell (old blind dogs) and hamish moore when i was starting on the pipes. if you forget about the pipe band way of playing the GHB can be as fun to play as UP. ( pipe band tunes can be fun to play also)
some of my pipe band friends give me hell for playing rolls and crans on the GHB but it can be done
First of all..they are not called The Great Highland Bagpipes..they are called Warpipes!! The Irish Figured it out a long time ago that they are not a real musical instrument so they gave it to the Scots..who haven’t figured it out yet… ..no offense..I play the agony bags too!!
Paddy …Piss Off
Slán Agat
Uilliam
PS..TROLL
liam, grow up m8. dont make me blow your pipes…
yea you can make some money off of piping, but most of the time its weddings and funerals, but its alll the same. there arnt reeeally an over whelming amount of jobs for uilleann pipes either. but its not like i’m trying to make a living off of it[/i]
i own a set of 1870s hendersons,i paid 7000 us,and yes they the tone is better than anything you buy new,i also play,and own 3/4 set of uilleanns.this forum is for uilleann piping info.with only 2 pipe bands in the us thats worth listening too,and only a hand full of solo pipers,that are any good.their are lots of web sites for ghp.i would lose the hendersons in a ny min, for a set of andreas rogge or koeher and quinn .
I thought no personal attacks were allowed on this forum.
Anyway, I look forward to the day where anyone with a set of 100 buck Pakistani uilleann pipes off Ebay can make thousands of dollars a year playing weddings and concerts and making GHB players happy with no lessons or talent, playing every hackneyed ethnic-camp tune you could name. Then our little community can be just like the GHB community. That’s why I think these fine folks should be encouraged and treated with respect.
Some day, the world may wince at the mention of “uilleann pipes” the same way it does “bagpipes.”
ah, i’ve met many-a-person who’ve bought paki pipes, and have tryed to teach them selfs. only recently i’ve met one that is presistant that paki pipes are a good deal 
, and well the person never had a lesson and i dear say these are the types of people that bring the bad name upon the GHB. the instrument makes playing a sport, and most pipers scough at the people who just pick it up one day and try to play. the insrument is never to become like the guitar when everyone can ‘play’ it but very few can play it. and if the community would look past the daemonistic songs like Amazing Grace, and Scotland the Brave. and into the sport of the GHB they might just might gaint a appresiation for it.
Your playing style sounds interesting. Do you have samples to post?
As far as crans and rolls, we play them in pipe bands as well only we call them taorluaths and doubling-strikes.
Now who’s trolling? Actually it’s sad but true. For those of us who put in a lot of time and effort to become good pipers (GHB or UP), there are far more hacks out there making a fast buck on the ignorance of many. But what can you do? Whinging about it obviously hasn’t stopped it.
Cheers,
Aaron
eeerrrmmm whats ‘troll’ and ‘trolling’?
I believe that would be…taking the piss just to enjoy the aftermath.
Or pretending not to be oneself with maligne intent.
Lovely!
Patio.
twice, no less… :roll: