Kerry Polkas - Scottish Smallpipes

[JudischerWolfsmench]

I know how you got small pipes, you should have used cold water to wash them!!!!! Great music!

[macwarner57]

@JudischerWolfsmench ??? What does that mean!?

[JudischerWolfsmench]

@macwarner57 Damn, you are a Scotsman. It meant Washign the pipes in hot water shrunk them as opposed to the regular big pipes...... o.o

[d1v4dPwnz]

ya your good! tell me, should I get a Gibson Smallpipe in a B flat or A :)

[zengeme61]

Super bien

C'est quoi le titre de la fin ?

What is the name of the end of this tune?

Merci

[zengeme61]

Je joue bien le debut , mais je n'arrive pas a trouver la partition de la fin....

I dont found partition of end....

[wsandvik]

i am a poor college student and i've spent my life in the woods making whistles out of branches and even ones that you can play different notes on.....and since i can't afford a set of smallpipes, im going to find some crazy hard wood and make my own and learn to play them....mainly because you made them sound so good here....thanks for being such an inspiration.

[TheHighlandPiper]

5*****

Sounds great!!

I´m thinking about to buy an smallpipe in Key A.

Is it an Walsh Ploypenco or Blackwood?

Because i´m thinking polypenco is not sounding that good?

Best regards from Germany

[macwarner57]

@TheHighlandPiper This set was polypenco. I sold it a few years ago, however. I am a fan of wood, but more for the aesthetic and imagined value. This video proves, wood and dense plastic are hard to distinguish in sound.

[bubbles9963]

Wow must say ur doublings r really clear well !!!!!

[Shalinar45]

If you are not the best on the web, ya couldda fooled me, Laddie! Wonderful!!

[osnocksdisciple]

This guy is the best piper anywhere on the net.

[macwarner57]

Wow. Thanks and all, but you obviously don't get around much!

[celticgarrison]

@macwarner57

the best piper is alasdair gillies =)

[macwarner57]

@celticgarrison You're forgetting Jack Lee, and about a dozen other top pipers.

I'm kidding. Honestly, it's all a matter of personal taste.

[Celticwithakick]

What about Zac Leger?

[mcknightross]

Zac Leger is a very skilled piper. However, he plays Uillean pipes, not SSP.

[macwarner57]

@Celticwithakick I'm a big fan of Zac. In fact he once commented one of my vids.

[Iris054]

Awesome! This is not an easy instrument to play and you made it sound beautiful. The tune is called Britches Full of Stitches.

[Stargreened]

The first one is called the Kerry Polka or Egan's Polka

[toobrak]

The tune is Peggy Ryan's Polka, well played too

[celticmarine1]

First one is definitely an Irish polka, just can't remember the name right now.

[ianclytle]

Good stuff...keep it up, lad...

[mich890]

where could I find sheet music to this tune ?

sounds like a scotish folk tune.

[NicktheIrishman]

Usually Scottish and Irish folk tunes are identical in style, but I have to agree with you this one sounds somewhat Scottish rather than Irish...

[macwarner57]

I'm afraid I learned these by ear from Nintch, who claimed them of Irish origin. Though the second tune is called in Ireland "Britches Full of Stitches", it is indeed also played in Scotland, but as a strathspey with the parts inverted. The Scottish title is "O'er the Boughs to Ballindalloch" (I think! I'm really reaching here!)

[jonopart]

wow, that was goog stuff.will you teach me how to play!!! I don,t know anything about smallpipe.

[TaylorGilligan]

what type of attatchment do you have so you don't have to blow into them

[macwarner57]

... it's called a bellows. Like a large capcity fireplace bellows but with body straps instead of handles. Just about every other bagpipe native to the british isles and ireland use them, since they supply cool, dry air, which extends the life and tone of the reeds. I make them for a living- search for "MacWarner Bagpipe Products".

[ianclytle]

That's awesome!!! Thanks for the tune... I'm of the clan McIan, sept clan of clan Donald...

[poponpipes]

It's a plasure to hear you playing with all that simplicity, clear and good fingering.

Congratulations and Thaks

[pearse93]

great stuff i play the kerry polka on uilleann pipes

[cctc11891]

i really liked this and another of you're videos where you're sitting on a chair like this one...wish you mad more videos with more irish music, because I love it!

[xbroadwaybx]

actually i think your sound quality is pretty good, better than most videos i've seen

[thecelticpiper]

good stuff mate.