Howdy all,
What’s the strangest piping air you’ve heard? I.e. odd, spooky, least Irish-sounding, or anything else that meets your definition of “strange”?
B.C.
‘Port na bPucai’ is often described as a ‘strange’ tune,that has the added Weird factor of supposedly being composed after fishermen in the Blaskets heard Whalesongs and attributed the sounds to ‘Fairy musicians’(more ‘Cod’ than Whale,I’d say 
).
Liam O’Flynn does a fine job of it on the 'Poet and the Piper’album,which he shares with Poet Seamus Heaney.
“Caoineadh Ui Neill” as played by Ronan Browne on “The Wynd You Know” has to be about the strangest I have ever heard. Very powerful stuff.
Marvelous album,Pat. I love his version of ‘Paddy’s ramble through the park’.
Strangest air? That would have to be a toss up between a falafel and a burrito …
djm
It’s a truly ill wind that blows no one any good.
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo…probably still doing the rounds in kaliforny as An Sciopa from Ennystymon 
Slan go foill
Liam
The strangest tune I have heard was “Song of the Books/Valencia Harbour” played by Geoff Wooff. Very un-Irish to my ears.
Happy Kwanzukahsolstmas everyone!
t
Planxty Cal Worthington (for those of you in the SoCal area…)
Cal Worthington… Isn’t that that car dealer with all the “pets” in his TV ads?
“It’s Cal Worthington and his dog, Spot!”
It was always a different animal, too. Stuffed, I think, sometimes. I saw that when I was a kid growing up in Lovery Southern Manitoba, a scant day’s drive north of Minneapolis. Which would be Canada.
(SoCal. Huh.)
Mark
Television is the universal intellectual solvent. It says so on the label.
Cal appears to get around…
http://www.calworthington.com/
So is the tune o’ the month for the next meeting??? 
The city of Tacoma, Washington undoubtedly has the strangest air that I have ever encountered.
The Bright Lady as played by Willie Clancy is one of the strangest Airs
I have ever heard. Other Worldly sounds to me almost like an Indian Raga
I can almost hear Tabla drums in the back ground