My first Mickey Dunne Uilleann Starter set......

Uilleann Pipes
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Well…hopefully this coming March, in Wichita Falls, Texas, I will be picking up my first set of Mickey Dunne Starter set of Uilleann pipes. If you happen to have followed my posts…yeah right?..LOL, you can see that I have been terminally bitten by the Irish/Celtic music bug. I think that the Uilleann pipes might just be the Irish/Celtic niche that I have been looking for? I must admit that I do love the GHB’s and the Uilleann pipes is personally a very intriguing combination of the Irish high D whistle and the Irish flute. Needless to say, I seem to fair much better on keyboards and woodwinds than stringed instruments and that really pisses me off for some reason.

It has appeared to me that most “REAL” musicians can manage most any instrument and I have known for most of my life that I AM NOT a musician, but a very frustrated musician WANNABE…LOL. If we do come back to this life, I truly hope it is a musician! I realize that G-d certainly charges all of us to accept and be very grateful for what ever our blessings are, but I still would love to have had a “gift” for music. Oddly enough, I do have a “gift” for cooking and food management even though by profession I am a dentist (medically retired), I would give all of that up for an easier music ability.

Sorry to bore any reader of my “ranting” or “whinging”, but I truly am looking forward to my set of Uilleann starter pipes. I am rapidly becoming “instrument poor”…LOL

:open_mouth:

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Congratulations, I understand Mickey makes some nice chanters.

Give yourself time and patience, attend some tionols, if possible, and have fun!

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Expect a great deal of pain, so. It’s just called the learning curve. You will require a great deal more sensitivity on the peddle that pumps the air through the system as a piper, to get a decent tone going, let alone anything else, than any dentist I have experienced has achieved in getting squeals out of my teeth.

But - GOOD LUCK

The fellow above was quite right. His advice was that to be followed.

Pwrt

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I believe I was elected President of the Instrument Poor Club?!

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Boy are YOU in for a surprise… :laughing:

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…the Uilleann pipes is personally a very intriguing combination of the Irish high D whistle and the Irish flute…

well, a concert set IS in D, and IS Irish…

:slight_smile:

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intreguing combination of seven oboes and an air-bed more like :stuck_out_tongue:

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:laughing: @ chris

Mickey Dunne is aces and your pipes will come with great karma as well. Congratulations!

If you spent a career as a dentist, you probably already have an inclination toward the tinkering/mechanical aspects of piping. You’ll certainly understand the suffering; on bad days you’ll sound exactly like an abscess. :smiley: