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The Wheels of the World - 300 Years of Irish Uilleann Pipers (Paperback)
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The Wheels of the World - 300 Years of Irish Uilleann Pipers (Paperback)
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One chanter, three drones, three regulators, thirteen keys, too
many near-extinctions to mention and 300 years of heroes: that,
with a frisson of fairies on moonlit knolls, is the Irish uilleann
('ill-in') pipes. The Wheels Of The World presents an epic tale of
triumph and survival, where the soulful heart of a nation has been
kept alive across ages by a slender thread of guardians - blind
men, eccentrics, self-aggrandisers, noble heroes, bloody-minded
revivalists and at least three people compared to Jimi Hendrix.
Uilleann piping is Ireland's equivalent to the story of the blues
in America, save that here the trail of legends and lore is richer
and deeper by far. It is the sound of 18th-century blues - a
microtonal virtuoso machine wielded by misfits and geniuses, often
one and the same. This is the story of a continuum, from John
McSherry, a 21st-century icon, backwards in time through Paddy
Keenan, Liam O'Flynn, Finbar Furey, Seamus Ennis, Willie Clancy,
Johnny Doran, Leo Rowsome and Patsy Touhey - at the dawn of
recorded sound - and thence to find a litany of unrecorded legends
before them. It is also a snapshot of professional Irish
traditional musicians, after the gold rush of the late 20th
century, keeping calm and carrying on.
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