Villain Pipers

Uilleann Pipes
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After reading the thread including Jospeh E Smith as a Villain piper, I was just reminded then that actually Paddy Moloney has been written down as a Villain Piper. It is on the CD version of Mike Oldfield’s ‘Ommadawn’ featuring ‘Paddy Moloney - Villeann Pipes’.

On the Vinyl version he doesn’t rate a mention, although Ged Foley does, on Northumbrian Smallpipes. Trouble is, the smallpipes only play a drone and high D, I think it is, as a sort of run-up to Moloney’s bit on the ‘Villean pipes’.

Great album though, I highly recommend it, not for the piping, but for the pleasure of the album that it is.

Cheers,

DavidG

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I’ve a musical instruments book written by a Ukranian that describes the Villean pipes of Iceland, if you spa-cee-ba.

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Could be worse. Could be woollen pipers. (Merchant of Venice, IV, i)

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I wonder…are those the pipes of the Aran Islands?

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I favor the Alien Pipes, myself. Cthulhu gibbers to me through my chanter.

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Now there’s an octopus to be wrestled with! :astonished:

djm

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I still got my WWCD bracelet… it kind of makes my skin all ‘itchy’ like… :smiley:

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PJ’s signature states - “Old pipers never die. They just drone on and on…”

Just wondering, with the cost of pipes these days, wouldn’t it be -

'Old Uilleann Pipers never die, they just take longer to get a mortgage"?

Cheers,

DavidG

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:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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Speaking of odd labeling, I once saw a cassette tape of various Highland pipe bands. The printing of the ‘J card’ inside the case said it was printed in Taiwan.

There must have been something lost in translation, though… for one of the tracks had the title, “Scotland the Grave”.

:laughing: