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Terrible news! The worst feeling in the world, I'm sure. Will keep an ear to the ground. Best of luck!

My favourites are, in no particular order:

Paddy Keenan
Liam O'Flynn
Finbar Furey
John McSherry
Eoin O'Riabhaigh
Sean Potts
D Moynihan
Todd Denman

I once read "Seamus Ennis never played for dancers" This is called "The DANCE music of Seamus Ennis" I read that too somewhere..... Oh!!! I know. Kevin L.Reitmann Wrote: Ennis apparently refused to play the pipes for dancers, his music was for listening not dancing - something t...

I love the sound of keenans drones in the early days. Were they a Crowley set or a Rowsome.?

uilleannpiper wrote: Yes, but there should come a time when you begin to put yourself into the music and move forward by developing your own style. The one thing piping doesn't need is people crticising others for moving forward in their own way. Oliver wrote: Develop your own style ! How many time...

Joseph E. Smith wrote: The above quote demonstrates to me what a combination of inexperience and brass balls can do... look/sound pretty silly. Well, I might have brass balls but lack of experience - no. If anything, it takes a lot of experience to be able to see past all this Ennis guru stuff and e...

Yes Canpiper. Don't let these bullies put you off playing and enjoying the pipes just because you had the balls to question some of Ennis's abilities. And remember, a lot of those here who claim to speak with authority on pipes only see it from one angle. If they had their way, we'd all be clones of...

Peter Laban wrote: I said something about musical insights, nothing about imitating. What else would you be doing locked away for 10 yrs with recordings by your one true idol, I wonder! :-? If you didn't come away playing those tunes like Ennis you,d probably wanna jump off the nearest cliff. It sur...

Peter Laban wrote: Now, even listening to Ennis' later recordings I can still hear stuff to learn from and I have listened to those closely for over 25 years. I dare say that any keen piper could lock him/herself away for at least ten years with the Pure Drop and The Foxchase and still not have cove...

There's a lot of people here who think that being an authority on Seamus Ennis equates to being an authority on piping fullstop. They bark when someone disagrees with their singlemindedness and dismiss those who get their inspiration elsewhere as 'the un-informed'. I've been listening to Seamus Enni...

Hear hear! I totally agree.

Have you ever seen long discussions about poor musicians? Nope. Thats probably because the discussing/criticising that goes on in these forums is actually being conducted by the poor players who spend too much time on their computers rather than their instruments. Not referring to you Peter, of cou...

Have you ever seen long discussions about poor musicians?

Nope. Thats probably because the discussing/criticising that goes on in these forums is actually being conducted by the poor players who spend too much time on their computers rather than their instruments.

I,ve been learning both tunes lately and love them both. I think the McSherry one is Breton. If you play it, you'll realise that certain parts of the tune repeat themselves quite a bit, especially in the A section. And, as I've discovered, it's quite difficult to get anywhere near the feeling and co...

Eric wrote; For me, the McSherry clip does not have the measured dignity present in Ennis. It does not contain the same level of thoughtfulness in construction of phrases, ornaments, and tone. McSherry appears to add ornaments out of habit, and as such, puts ornaments in places more effective in dan...