Excerpt Tight Piping Style Slow Motion Paddy Moloney
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- čas přidán 20. 11. 2022
- A short Copyright Fair Use educational excerpt from The Chieftains 6 album "Bonaparte's Retreat" of the late piper Paddy Moloney playing the 9/8 time slip-jig "Top It Off" slowed down to 1/2 speed and an octave lower in pitch for the benefit of Irish uilleann pipe players and learners.
This is amazing playing and skill discipline. Let those who have ears to hear, hear. - Hudba
Absolutely unique style he had. Very thought through combination of staccato and legato, open and closed fingerings, off-knee playing and all sorts of embellishments resulting in outstanding musicality. I wonder how did he come up with his way of playing, as there was definitely a lot in it that feels counter-intuitive, not what one's fingers usually play on their own.
His style makes great sense. More than a little of it relates to what his instrument --specifically the melody playing pipe or "chanter" made by Leo Rowsome, and what it was able to do and was unable to do. If you play the instrument, there a sound effect unique to the bottom note of the scale and of this tune which is the note D. It's called the "hard D" and it's the same note, but is made louder by pumping the air pressure a tiny bit higher as an upper finger is incredibly briefly flicked up and down that triggers the response. Almost every piper in history uses this effect except for Paddy Moloney --I've never heard him use it even once in the recordings and appearances since the early 70's. But I make uilleann pipes as my full time profession, and I have been building replicas of aged, distorted chanters from the maker of Moloney's trying to undo the degradation of age. I can say that giving up the "hard D" feature would make his style easier to play. This could be done by any combination of the ravages of time on an instrument, or ways of making and setting up the reed. RIP Paddy, and Leo too for that matter, if I had a choice of winning a billion dollar lottery or spending 1 hour with each of you 2 willing to answer my questions, I'd take the latter.
@@Dayepipes I've also noticed the abscence of hard D, as well as other little things (distinction of vibrato on B1, ability to play vibrato on back D with all four bottom hand fingers without falling to c#, specific tonal quality of sliding from e2 to g2). Interestingly, often time pipemakers and pipers concider ability of the chanter to play hard D to be an advantage and a marker of a good chanter/reed combination. It is so great to finally discuss Moloney's music with someone. People usually tend to overlook his mastery as a piper, seeing him mostly as a showman and band leader.
No idea why the algorithm put this in my recommended but I will do my part to make it go viral because it would be very funny if this completely random video went viral lol
It's the opposite of random for those of us who play, and the profoundly few of us who make, this instrument. I'm sorry some demented computer algorithm inserted it into your life.