Who was Sean reid ?

Uilleann Pipes
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I hear the man,s name mentioned so often but I know absolutley nothing about him! Was he a pipemaker ? or was he just a player . I can only guess that he was very involved in the piping world . anyone know anything about the man . ?

RORY

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http://www.esatclear.ie/~seanreid/homepage2.html

check out this link

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One of nature’s gentlemen.

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Thanks for the link Irishduffv , althrough it doesn,t say I gather he was a piper , was he a noted piper ?and did he leave any recording? I was also curious if he was in some way involved in the technology of pipemaking


RORY

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Sean definitely played; his picture is on the front of Garvin’s book.

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Sean Reid’s was a tune Willie Clancy learned from his father, it used to be known as ‘Gilbert Clancy’s’ Obviously Sean liked it and his name got attached to it. It’s a reel version of the jig/song Bimid ag ol..

Reid played and collected pipes, his boxwood Coyne is possibly one of the finmest sets of pipes I have ever seen. He was als ofiddle playert, pianoplayer, foundermember, driver and longtime leader of the Tulla Ceili band, he blew the drones on WIllie Clancy’s Gael Lin 78 rpms and played the regulators on many of Willie’s recordings made by Ciaran Macmathuna.