by TheCrowOnTheFenceI can play the bagpipes, but I don't have my own set of pipes yet, only a practice chanter. : / And my bodhran skills are shite, so I'm not gonna post that. XD If this thread stays alive until I can afford my own pipes, I'll post something.
Can you?!!! The Devil's instrument, always wanted to play that. Love them bagpipes.
Used to bang about the bodhrán a bit m'self, years ago - must take it out some day, see if i still can.
WTH are you, Crow? You quickly became one of my favourite posters here, by some of your posts. You wrote you're Irish? Which quarters? (I'm in Connacht if not in the Shires.)
by Broccoli Bob
by TheCrowOnTheFenceI can play the bagpipes, but I don't have my own set of pipes yet, only a practice chanter. : / And my bodhran skills are shite, so I'm not gonna post that. XD If this thread stays alive until I can afford my own pipes, I'll post something.
Can you?!!! The Devil's instrument, always wanted to play that. Love them bagpipes.
Used to bang about the bodhrán a bit m'self, years ago - must take it out some day, see if i still can.
WTH are you, Crow? You quickly became one of my favourite posters here, by some of your posts. You wrote you're Irish? Which quarters? (I'm in Connacht if not in the Shires.)
I can, indeed. The bodhran is my favorite, though. And I usually have a knack for drums, but I'm just not getting it, for some reason. I suppose having a teacher would help. : / The first time I tried, I pulled up a youtube video called "Bodhran for absolute beginners" or something like that, and the first thing he says is "Now hold your bodhran like so and try to follow along with this beat." and goes into some ridiculous little jig. And I'm just sitting there like "How dafuq are you even holding that stick, crazy motherfucker? o_O ".
I bet you could self-teach the bagpipes, though. The fingering is hellishly awkward, but once your hands get used to it, it's fine. And practice chanters are cheap, so no reason not to. : )
Ooo! I think I'm gonna add "bagpipe duet with wooster" to my endless bucket list of things I'll most likely never get to do. XD
A wily, witty, whimsical feathered pest with nothing better to do than bring pleasant snark to those around me. : P
Well how 'bout that? You're one of my favorite posters, as well. : D
I'm murican, by birth and residency, actually. Irish by citizenship and heritage. My family over there are Cavan folk. (I know, I know. XD )
by TurncoatThe two do go together like peanut butter and jelly.
I suppose a peanut allergy would make that a problem however.
Don't knock the Cavan folk. Pat McCabe is a regular at my occasional regular (Hargadon's) - dammit i always miss him by quarter of an hour.
Drums / percussion, yes.
Ooo! I think I'm gonna add "bagpipe duet with wooster" to my endless bucket list of things I'll most likely never get to do. XD
Look at that. 
Made me to make a bucket list (never had one), this being the first entry.
Must Learn Bagpipes. !!!
Ima bit of a blow-in, hurdy gurdy is my second best favourite to bagpipes - can inflict almost the same damage to philistine ears.
- and a Pannonian hometune:
(we call it 'nyenyere', or 'grinding lute'.)
Both in the same pic:
A wily, witty, whimsical feathered pest with nothing better to do than bring pleasant snark to those around me. : P
Keep it a-coming! ;)
My humble rendition of "Is There Anybody Out There?" by the rock and roll band Pink Floyd.
Oh, I don't. I dig Cavan folk. In a sense, I am one, as that's where my father hails from and I've been back to visit many times. I just get a lot of funny reactions when I tell people that my family are from Cavan. >_<
The hurdy gurdy is fuckin' beast. XD
I do not know what to make of that painting. >.>