Siar an Bothar

Uilleann Pipes
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There’s a nice clip of the WCSS in the late 70s in the most recent edition of Siar an bothar. It’s about 2.30 into the programme.

For fun, how many pipers can you name.

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For fun, how many pipers can you name.

I get the ball rolling,
The kid with the 3/4 set and glasses… Mick O’Brien
Willie Reynolds is beside him.


Tommy

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I, ll take the easy ones ,Liam O Flynn and Dan O,Dowd on the right!!

RORY

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Is that Bill Ochs up there? I thought it might be Sean Reid over on the far right, but I wouldn’t have any idea, really.

Anybody know who the old timer with the left-handed set is?

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Anybody know who the old timer with the left-handed set is?

Pat Brophy, i think…

So from left to right, so far,

Mick O’Brien, Willie Reynolds, don’t know, Bill Ochs (?), don’t know/can’t tell, Pat Brophy (?) Liam O’Flynn, Tom White and Sean Reid.

Tommy

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And right at the end of the show is one of the few clips of mouth whistling I’ve ever seen. Great breath control

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Any takers on identifying the other pipers??

Tommy

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Update,
One more identified and one correction

So the line up is
Mick O’Brien, Willie Reynolds, don’t know, Bill Ochs, Wilbert Garvin, Pat Lavin, Liam O’Flynn, Tom White and Sean Reid.

Tommy