i am searching for a good video with a lot of close up and a lot of tip and details on ornementation.
what is for you the best video i should buy???
Sorry, PM, there isn’t much. The best video sources are NPU’s three tutor videos.
Next from that is Liam O’Flynn’s video “The Piper’s Call”, available from Tara. There are a few snippets of piping on RTÉ’s video, “Come West Along the Road”. Also, the Boys of the Lough have a “Live in Concert” video available from Sheanache. None of these are piping tutors, per se. Just a chance to try to glean a bit of technique if you watch closely.
There is enough evidence in “Come West Along the Road” to prove that RTÉ is sitting on shitloads of film and video that they aren’t releasing to us mere mortals; people like Seamus Ennis, Willy Clancy, Planxty in concert, etc. They have several decades-worth of stuff from regular, weekly traditional music programs that will never see the light of day.
djm
Nicolas Carolan presents an RTE show called Come West Along the Road that’s compiled from shows that go back to the 60s. Progammes I’ve seen have included fooage of the Bothy Band in concert from the late seventies, and Liam O’Flynn playing to a room of London school-children. So to be to fair to RTE they’ve made some effort to make some of their archive material available to the public if you’re lucky enugh to be able to get RTE
Hi Pipemaniac in Joliette!
I have the 1st NPU video and find it very good.
By the way, please check your private messages…
Thanks,
Jamie
Pat McNulty made a little video for sale, too; the Singing Chanter I think its called. He’s a very good piper who lives in Glasgow. Don’t know if you can get it still outside of the UK.
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Unfortunately, the Pat McNulty video is only available in PAL format per NPU, i.e. it is not available for North American NTSC viewers.
djm
Disregard.
Disregard.
Patrick, that would be great if you could (and if the content of the video meets up with the good words it has here). But what kind of quality can you get in transferring it to NTSC? I have NPU’s transferred version of Alan Moller, but the quality is dicey at best.
If you think it would be worth the trouble, I will start the process, but this could take a couple of months with the mailing and all.
Thx,
djm