The Gold Ring has become perhaps my favourite recording.
I only have it as a download and as such don’t have the liner notes. (I don’t have a computer currently and iTunes does not allow one to download the PDF of the booklet straight to phone)
Can anyone tell me which sets of pipes are used on which tracks?
Alternatively if anyone could email me a PDF of the liner notes that would be brilliant.
Many thanks in advance,
Patrick
You should just buy the CDs, it’s a great package. A biography (Peter Browne), pictures, details on the recordings and tunes (Pat Mitchell). IMO everyone should own a copy of this.
CD1
tracks 1-8 Maloney 18in chanter David Power now plays
9-16 Leo Rowsome in D made for Sean Reid
17-19 Maloney chanter again
20-25 Just states “concert set”
26-32 “set pitched between B & Bb suggesting a chanter length of 17.5 to 18 in”
33-34 “concert set”
CD2
1-7 “pitched between C# & D”
8-10 “just below B” “almost certainly the Egan set which came to Peadar OLoughlin from Brother Gildas” (Is this the set that appears on the Chieftains early albums?)
11-19 Rowsome set belonging to Sean Reid
20-31 Taylor concert pitch from Tom Looney
Is this the set that appears on the Chieftains early albums?)
It isn’t. The set played on several Chieftains recordings is Dan O’Dowd’s (Clancy alsoused that set, for the Seoda Cheoil recordings), see their thanks for the loan in the sleeve notes for several albums. The set on the cover of Ch5 is the Gareth Browne Kenna that also appears on Ds&Chs1.
Thanks for the information.
I wonder what drones (set?) he had for the Maloney chanter recordings.
I have to say the first tracks quickly became my favourite piping. Most of the Clancy I had heard before was concert pipes (not that there’s too much wrong with that.)