Plus ca change...out of tune Highland pipe bands being miscast as "Irish," and dancers who can't dance to the tune as played by a live musician...and ignorant #$%^& being so smitten with the spectacle they can't hear how things aren't meshing up...typical...typical. Nothing changed in 70 years, except that the dancers have gotten more numerous and pushy.
+Piobairesicago --I suspect all the "pipe bands" we hear from Hollywood in old movies are probably one same band from the LA area. My 1950 Scots Guards recording is very well tuned with easy playing of heavy MSR's. But also remember that before the 60's, Highland high G was formally tuned halfway between minor and major, hence the cross-fingering required in pibroch, and both Highland and uilleanns often used somewhat sharp 4th notes (D on Highland, G on u.p.). It's sad about the dancers, I quit playing for them when contests began providing metronomes and requiring musicians to play to the clock.
The light of heaven to him...master piper
Wow! That is so wonderful to see Leo Rowsome on film! What a wonderful piper he was!
Yep.
They are masters never to be forgotten.
Great playing. '59 was a great year :-)
Top class!
The star of the show IMHO.
Christ what a film though
"thats enough children thank you very much"...
The big 3 uilleann pipers of all time in my opinion:
Leo Rowsome
Willie Clancy
Seamus Ennis
deterdettol you are not wrong
I might be crazy, but something really weird was going on in this video.
Plus ca change...out of tune Highland pipe bands being miscast as "Irish," and dancers who can't dance to the tune as played by a live musician...and ignorant #$%^& being so smitten with the spectacle they can't hear how things aren't meshing up...typical...typical. Nothing changed in 70 years, except that the dancers have gotten more numerous and pushy.
+Piobairesicago --I suspect all the "pipe bands" we hear from Hollywood in old movies are probably one same band from the LA area. My 1950 Scots Guards recording is very well tuned with easy playing of heavy MSR's. But also remember that before the 60's, Highland high G was formally tuned halfway between minor and major, hence the cross-fingering required in pibroch, and both Highland and uilleanns often used somewhat sharp 4th notes (D on Highland, G on u.p.). It's sad about the dancers, I quit playing for them when contests began providing metronomes and requiring musicians to play to the clock.