I have found this forum on the Internet:
Euh, OK. En français, évidemment. Avec peu de rapport avec la musique traditionelle, et rien de tout à voir avec uilleann pipes, n’est-ce pas?
oh great..all tongues & no interpretation…
I’ve been told before I’m all tongues, but it’s much too embarrassing to talk about …
The forum is a generic Ireland-fan forum in French, with little connection to trad music and nothing at all to do with uilleann pipes.
OK AgeJohnny Ye have had a good laugh ha bloody ha…
Ist Post How to play the feckin guitar aka flaming Flamenco then a post on useless techniques to help heelan bagpipe players aka moothie chanters then an even more useless post unless ye happen to be fluent in French on an internet site about Ireland which is very nice for Entente Cordiale but as ye should know there aint much o that on this forum (French
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Looking at yer profile we have ala surprise surprise this
Bagpipes, Balalaika, Flamenco Guitar…
Does that mean that we will also get a post on Balalaika lessons soon?? ![]()
Nay I say and thrice nay …in other words three strikes and yer oot mate.
I name thee as a Troll or worse a guitar player…awa wi ye to another forum or zip it and learn to play the uilleann pipes…
Slán Go Foill
Uilliam
Time for the mods to check the IPs/mail addresses of this new set members posting random crap.
It screams troll.
Mukade
More likely, Age is a new enthusiast with limited English and understanding, having trouble finding his footing, and no one warned him about running the time-honored uilleann initiation gantlet and the big paddles. ![]()
Yeah, odd how some types settle in on a certain forum here at C&F and don’t use the others according to their purposes. I always wonder what’s up with that.
There are others besides the Uilleann Pipe Forum? ![]()
tk
Well, nominally there are.
And my profoundest thanks, MT, for your spelling “gantlet” correctly. Take note of it, ye pipers. My day is sunnier for it. Sheesh, spelling…I take what I can get. ![]()
And my profoundest thanks, MT, for your spelling “gantlet” correctly. Take note of it, ye pipers. My day is sunnier for it. Sheesh, spelling…I take what I can get.
Funny, da missus and I went round and round about gantlet/gauntlet recently. From Answere.com:
“The spelling gauntlet is acceptable for both gauntlet meaning “glove” or “challenge” and gauntlet meaning “a form of punishment in which lines of men beat a person forced to run between them”; but this has not always been the case. The story of the gauntlet used in to throw down the gauntlet is linguistically unexciting: it comes from the Old French word gantelet, a diminutive of gant, “glove.” From the time of its appearance in Middle English (in a work composed in 1449), the word has been spelled with an au as well as an a, still a possible spelling. But the gauntlet used in to run the gauntlet is an alteration of the earlier English form gantlope, which came from the Swedish word gatlopp, a compound of gata, “lane,” and lopp, “course.” The earliest recorded form of the English word, found in 1646, is gantelope, showing that alteration of the Swedish word had already occurred. The English word was then influenced by the spelling of the word gauntlet, “glove,” and in 1676 we find the first recorded instance of the spelling gauntlet for this word, although gantelope is found as late as 1836. From then on spellings with au and a are both found, but the au seems to have won out.”
t
You could always try the Dunsire forum where highland pipers have been discussing why uilleann pipers are hostile to them…
http://www.bobdunsire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=479102&page=1
Is that a possible source for cured spanish cane? ![]()
Gantlet. ![]()
More likely, Age is a new enthusiast with limited English and understanding, having trouble finding his footing, and no one warned him about running the time-honored uilleann initiation gantlet and the big paddles.
When I became an uilleann piper, I underwent the following initiation ceremonies*:
The Leap of Faith
Crossing the Desert
The Unblinking Eye
The Wreck of the Hesperus
The Paddling of the Swollen Ass…With Paddles
*With apologies to Stonecutters everywhere ![]()
I’m forever wearing the stone of shame !
RORY
Quoted from the Dunsire site link, on the matter of GHB and uilleann pipes players swapping instruments:
As for the Highland piper playing uillean pipes, if he does not have the bellowing technique down, there is not much going on in terms of the chanter…
That’s gotta be my problem from the get-go. I don’t bellow. I just sort of caw.
Uilliam me lad, charity man charity…
we don’t want fellows thinking we have no grace.
and what’s this about guitarists?!
how dare ye sir!
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