Cumha Dhomhnaill Dhuaghail Mhic Aoidh
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Barnaby Brown plays the Piobaireachd (pibroch) 'Cumha Dhomhnaill Dhuaghail Mhic Aoidh' on the Scottish Highland bagpipes at Toppstöðin, Reykjavik, Iceland on 25th January 2013. www.bassculture.info www.barnabybrown.info
I have watched this so manytimes i have lost count. The performance is facinating on many levels.
I don't know the background to the occasion but firstly the reaction of the listeners probably hearing the GHB for the first time at close quarters they seem a little shocked by the sound but most likely the volume.
The instrument is unique as close to a GHB of circa 1650 as is possible. So the sound and pitch is straight from circa 1650 which could be argued as the start of the golden age of ceol mor.
the setting of the tune is shorter and more embelished than you hear on a competition circuit today..
1st Lord Reay died in Denmark in 1649 here is a great piece of ceol mor as it was in circa 1650 just needed the great kilt and a velvet tunic set in a vaulted chamber or on a cnoc to fully step back in time.. in my view a performance to rank alongside any as good at Oban Blair Atholl or Inverness.
I am always facinated how as a piper of 30 plus years the GHB and ceol mor has travelled the world and stood the test of time coming from what was and still is sometimes a cold and wet little country like scotland!
Well put, Ian. Something very special here.
Toller Piobaireachd, hervorragender Piper, super Sound - Gänsehaut!
Great sound and tone plus the soft echo from the environment enhanced the performance. Loved it!
A real treat. Thank you for posting this fine video. Mr. Brown is a true and dedicated exponent of traditional music, especially that of the piob mor.
Thank you Barnaby, your excellent style and instrument power are greatly appreciated!
This is the real McCoy or I guess one should say real MacAoidh here: if musicians paid attention to Brown's point at the end of this video and also considered the binary code that was the basis of old harp playing (see the 11 minute mark of the BBC documentary on the harp, presented by Catrin Finch) there could potentially be many Sean O'Riadas about in terms of composition and/or arrangement, but if that is ever going to happen I expect it will take place in Scotland, not in Ireland. I once saw Barnaby Brown play in an underground chapel in Dublin. He stood behind the altar to play the bagpipes and gave a pre-warning to the audience that 'this is going to be a wee bit loud'. I think he had to run by the keepers of the chapel too to reassure them that the sheer volume of the pipes wasn't going to cause the paint (or other things) to come off the walls.
Very beautiful rendering.
At last.... Welcome to youtube Alasdair.
Still with the Ian Dall chanter apparently? Love the way it sounds though and so beautiful harmonics...
To be ... on the inside of that sound must be awsome...
I'd love to obtain the canntaireachd!
Very nice, indeed, a skilled piper! Thanks! (? Why does this remind me of border pipes? A wildish edge?)
Still the same bagpipe made by Julian Goodacre. Nice sound!
Thanks for the reference. The Goodacre site explains these pipes well. I was wondering why they were unique and there is a good write up.
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The chanter scale is not very beautiful, some intervals are somewhat queer, but my ear has been used to the modern scale, however, the sound of that set is magical, half way between the highland pipes and the border ones
+Jean Michel Platen There is considerable evidence that our ancestors thought a completely-perfect scale was boring, and so tuned their chanters (and harps) to produce a 'colourful' scale. I refer you to "The Highland Bagpipe: Music, History, Tradition" edited by Joshua Dickson
This musical taste may well have lasted until at least the end of the 18th Century: In his 1790 poem "Tam o' Shanter" Robert Burns wrote "He screwed the pipes and gart (made) them skirl", which seems clear to me that he deliberately tuned (screwed) the drones to produce the 'beating' effect that we modern pipers seek to avoid.
@@robertmacdonaldbespokekilt3063 I would say in the uilleann piping wirld, the occasional wavering of drones could be seen as somewhat desirable as it gives the performance life