Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 321 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 2
- BBR-18712/1/258879/02
- Part
- 17-Oct-71
Part of Breandán Breathnach Collection
Speech with Music: Untitled [Willie Clancy's background in music; mother played concertina; began playing the whistle at the age of five; was over 20 when he began to play the pipes; got first set of pipes from Felix Doran; the Moloney brothers, pipemakers in Co Clare; Garrett Barry used to send to a place called Toin an Bhothair, in Co Clare, to get reeds made; Clancy was helped in learning the pipes by a local musician, Hugh Curtin; the components of a practice set; fingering technique on the chanter versus that on the whistle; is it an advantage in learning the pipes to have played the whistle?; the difficulty of unlearning bad habits; demonstration of the range of the chanter – two full octaves; adapting tunes to suit the pipes
Clancy, Willie - speech in English
O'Donnell, Michael - speech in English