Uilleann piping

[Music] [Applause] [Music] Yellin pipes are a woodwind lead instrument that were developed in around seventeen hundred's they were called Irish pipes are union pipes but now today the more commonly called Ilyn pipes because you use your elbow to press the bellows and the Irish word for elbow is in it there were developed from the hospital pipes which had a slightly longer chanter our Chandler is a little bit shorter which means that he can sit down and place the childhood on your knee on the letter pad the letter pad seen as the bottom of the chanter which means that you can play the second act by putting a little bit more pressure on the Reed [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the LM pipes usually have three or more drones the tenor drone the baritone Road and the bass drone and the main function of the drones is to provide a continuous background sound to the main melody line another important development in the history of the Olympics were the addition of these long stopped pipes with keys these are called the regulators and these first appeared around the mid 1700s beginning with one individual regulator and gradually more being added the regulator's main function is to provide harmonica complemented to the tune the sets vary in size length and also in bore dimension there are generally seven Reed's in a full set of olympus and these can be made from natural materials such as cane [Music] shorten read Shawn or the Pashtuns on such the chanter others should the throw of the P bar big brush I was there Halon unfair treats so spradlin didn't well sure I Breen share a malakian it's gone god damn the music that we play is very very varied there are tens of thousands of different individual pieces a great deal of it is dance music including reels Jake's hornpipes at answers polkas but also purely instrumental music and a huge number of song errors that would be the oldest stratum of the music they go back in some cases to the 1760s [Music] you you [Music] hidden piping has been in decline as several stages during its history in particular in the late 19th century after the famine instead the ill effects of that event in the very late 19th century the cork piper club were the first to start a group to try and promote the instrument and they were followed closely by pipers in Dublin and the Dublin Piper's and the core Piper's took special care to involve tradition bearers to ensure the continuity of an unbroken tradition of pipe [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] well also present at our celebrated fish Kuehl convention in 1901 was the famous traveler Piper John cash he was an ancestor of the Jordan brothers Felix and Johnny who carried piping into several parts of Ireland and they were quite important in bringing piping as travelling musicians to parts of Ireland where that might not have been a local paper or where the tradition was largely absent [Music] [Applause] [Applause] transition oven and piping is chiefly bio exhibition where players learn by ear they normally start on the practice set with justified bellows on the chanter normally around 10 years of age but when the fingers are long enough to span the chanter over last in the years we've seen interest from people of all ages and abilities and their need to play the pipes and get access to a practice set and to learn from the experience player another very important element in the transmission of Illin piping is true families where it's passed from one generation to the next [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] with the arrival of 1960s there was widespread concern about the future of the instrument and several groups were set up to try and arrest its decline the armed are Piper's Club in 1966 and the Pavillon in 1968 in the 1970s Ilyn piping began to become an internationally known form of music particularly through the wonderful music of players like paddy Moloney Lima Flynn paddy Keenan and Finbar fury they and the bands they played with brought the music on concert tours to every corner of the world [Music] you [Music]

Channel: UNESCO

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Keywords: Intangible Cultural Heritage, UNESCO 2003 Convention, Ireland, 01264, Representative List (2017)

Id: 4MxFsk4sYM4

Length: 9min 59sec (599 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 06 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/Dev__]

Uilleann Pipes are superior to Bagpipes.

Fight me Scotland.

[u/Houlilala]

A lad I know plays the Uilleann pipes says that he doesn't have to clean them half as much since the smoking ban

[u/Fairchild660]

Beautiful instrument.