Fred Morrison Smallpipes

[MsOneiroi77]

smile Mr. Grumpy Chops

[reginapiper]

@MsOneiroi77 next time, for sure!

[AntJoCac]

Hello are these in the key of D or A ?? I will be purchasing a set soon, and want to hear what both sound like. Thank You!

[andrebishop22]

Its a funny expression none the less

[locandro1]

Nice mellow sound!

[apologeticsman]

this set I believe uses Uilleann drones

[reginapiper]

thinking hard, I guess. ; )

[brassexpert]

what tune is this? It sounds very flowy without the gracenotes which is a hard thing to find these days

[reginapiper]

"The Apprentince Lads of Alnwick" from the 1733 William Dixon MS.

[apologeticsman]

@brassexpert I don't know the name of it, but I think it was originally written for the Northumbrian pipes

[cindyc7]

i no fred morrisons son he teaches me

[00MORDRED]

thats not "THE" fred morrison....

just another fred

he's good though!!

5 *****

[reginapiper]

No, not Fred, but playing "Fred Morrison" pipes. It's me. Glad you like it.

[pigeatinginfidel]

@reginapiper Ok that explains it. I was wondering myself, watching one video of Fred Morrison playing Kansas City Hornpipe on one video, and this one with a very different-looking Fred Morrison.

[Iberanarca]

Why is the video so abruptly cut?

[celticgarrison]

you have a angry look on your face ( you look like a angry fish ! )

[askmrlizard]

I do that too when I play a non-mouthblown pipe... I guess my lips are used to holding a blowpipe to be making music.

[patchbod]

ha ha nice facials

[Glenfinnan1745]

Are these really the D pipes? The pitch sounds lower than that.

[DJFozter]

Glenfinnan1745,

The drone is in D but he is playing a tune in A major, so I'm pretty sure these are D pipes.

[jonopart]

great scott!!!you look so mean,Can you smile just a few moment please

[reginapiper]

I am mean. And my name isn't Scott. ; )

[cliff8388]

lol thats awesome

[lollyliyanage]

What's the obsession with gracenotes? I think it sounds fine without!

[reginapiper]

Thanks. You're right, pipers often have an odd obsession with gracenotes, in part b/c they are so integral to most of what we play.

[camcam352]

Gracenotes really define tune structure in bagpipe music, without the tachum (scots snap) for instance many strathspeys and great marches would be left bland and unintelligible, its the difference between botched grade-school english and shakespear. Nice pipes by the way

[Motoguzzi750]

Sounds like pretty good Border piping to me. You must be a member of the LBPS, as I am.

As for no gracenotes - prior to the ossification of the GHB repetoir (in part due to military band use) you could use as little or as many as you liked. It was a lot more free and easy in the early 1700s...

[reginapiper]

Thanks Moto. I am a member of the LBPS. "Ossification" might be a bit harsh...you can still use as few or many gracenotes as you like! In GHB...you just won't win the prizes. Some of the research going on currently in GHB styles and development is great, and I think it shows that there has always been development and change in the piping communities.

[reginapiper]

There are no gracenotes in these old border manuscripts resto! Still, a cool tune. no?

[resto776]

that had like no gracenotes

[StevieC021]

hahahahahaha

[jdpipes]

what tune is this?

[reginapiper]

The Apprentice Boys....part of it....from a collection of border tunes by Matt Seattle called The Nine Notes that Shook the World, or something like that.

[AHolt718]

If you check out any of the sets Jim McGillivray plays on the D smallpipes (the ones labelled Jim Mcgillivray 1) you will here this tune, the 'Apprentice Lads of Alnwick, and another titled " Get thee to Barracks Johnny" I am not a border piper, i am a true GHB player, but i think jim's version of the tune is much more enjoyable

[reginapiper]

I think Jim is a much better piper, but I'm not sure that the version is really much different. Nice selection of tunes he plays. What is a "true GHB player"? : )