Uilleann pipes
The Uilleann Pipes is the name given to the Irish Cornemuse . It is one of the most sophisticated bagpipes.
The instrument
The instrument has a Tessiture of two octaves on the to sing (the equivalent of the levriad of a Breton bagpipe or bagpipe), as well as keys making it possible to play deteriorations. It is also, with the Small Pipes, the only bagpipe able not to produce any sound; the other bagpipes play the notes produced by the bumblebees in a continuous way, and cannot stop the melody.
Pour this to make, the musician has a key on the stock of the bumblebees, making it possible to stop the flow of air which is sent to them, as of a small piece of leather which it poses on his knee, to pose the end of the there to sing in order to stop all the exits of air and to stop the flow of air producing the melody; that in particular enables him to play Staccato.
The air intake in the bag is done by the means of a bellows, fixed on one side at the size and other side at the level of the biceps; the movement of the arm activates these bellows. This gesture explains the name of the instrument, uilleann is the genitive of the word meaning elbow in Gaélique. A flexible tube connects these bellows to the pocket of the bagpipe in order to fill it of air.
Uillean Pipes classically has three bumblebees, granted to three different octaves, which is unusual insofar as the bumblebees are generally granted to the fifth and the octave on a traditional bagpipe more . There are also some rare instruments equipped with four bumblebees. The factor Alain Froment equipped some with its sets of one bumblebee to the fifth, and this configuration is not so any more rare.
Beside the bumblebees, one finds a set of regulators, left chanters equipped with keys, which are used to play of the notes in order to accompany the melody either harmonizes some with this one, by plating small agreements, or rythmiquement. These keys are actuated by the wrist of the musician; the number of regulators varies from zero to five. It is necessary to note in the traditional music the similarity of play between the fiddle and the uilleann pipes, particularly obvious between the play of Kevin Burke and Paddy Keenan within the group The Bothy Band; the piper plays on its regulators the same notes as the fiddler on its cords; producing the same agreements; the fiddle and pipes playing in unison.
One finds many instrumentalists not having neither bumblebees, nor of regulators, on instruments ( set ) called generally wrongly practice set (littér. instrument of study ). In fact, number of pipers use these instruments all their life. One also finds under the name of half set ( half-instrument ) of the bagpipes only equipped with the bumblebees, without regulators. Lastly, one finds three-quarters of set , where the regulator low, dissociated from the others, is omitted.
These incomplete instruments are it generally for reasons of cost and complexity of maintenance. The adjustment of the bumblebees, regulators and of the Chanter are very difficult to make, and it is necessary to count approximately 1.500 euros for a practice set , the double for a half set , triple for a full set .
This so characteristic instrument owes its form and its use with a very strict regulation as regards music imposed during many centuries to the Irishmen by the English. Not wishing more to see pipers on their grounds, they had prohibited to blow in an instrument, and to quite simply even play (source upright: Na Piobairi Uilleann). It is in any case what the legend says…
Some Chanter S uilleann pipes can carry to 7 even 8 keys giving access to intermediate notes, and are generally granted in D ( D concert set ) or in C, do
The known uilleann pipes most complex to date is equipped with 5 bumblebees and 5 regulators instead of the 3 usual ones.
Famous instrumentalists
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Liam O' Flynn
- Ronan Browne
- Davy Spillane
- Mick O' Brien
- Paddy Keenan
- Paddy Moloney
- Patrick Molard
- Sylvain Barou
- Michael Cooney
- Marc Polier
- Ronan the Bars
- Leo Rowsome
- Eric Rigler
- Willie Clancy
- Seamus Ennis
- Jimmy O' Brien Moran
- Brian MacNamara
- Gay McKeon
- Tommy Keane
- Mick Coyne
- David Power
- Alan Kloatr
Factors of instruments
- Seth Gallagher
- Andreas Rogge
- Alain Froment
- Tanguy and Lysie Anne Allain
- Davy Spillane
- Bruce Childress
- Brian Howard
- Alan Ginsberg
- Dave Williams
- Jean-Yves Péran
- Brendan Boxing ring
Uilleann Pipes with the cinema
Several recent film original soundtracks used successfully Uilleann Pipes:- “Braveheart” of Mel Gibson, with Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau (1995).
- “Titanic” of James Cameron with Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet (1997).
- Mar Adentro
External bonds
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Irish Bagpipe
- Na Pioairi Uilleann (association of the players of Uilleann Pipes)
- site of the Association Gan Ainm which gathers the uilleann-pipers of Brittany
- Site of the factor of instruments Andreas Rogge
- Site of the factor of instruments Brian Howard
- Official site of Davy Spillane
- Page devoted to Liam O' Flynn
- Official site of Paddy Keenan
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