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	Irish Warpipes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Irish Warpipes, played for over 1000 years, are closely related to the Great Highland Bagpipe, with which they are essentially synonymous.
		Historically the Great Irish Warpipes differed from the Great Highland Bagpipe by having two drones instead of three, a tenor drone pitched one octave below the chanter, and a bass drone pitched two octaves below the chanter.
		Nearly all players of Irish warpipes today play the three-drone pipes with two tenor drones and a single bass drone, the two-drone pipes having nearly died out.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irish_Warpipes (133 words)

	The O'Brien Clan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Unique to the Irish kerne (soldiers) was that the pipers actually lead their commrades into battle playing the warpipes, which Flood illustrates well in his use of the account by Standish O'Grady, who wrote about the Battle of the Curlews in County Sligo.
		In the following year, the Irish army was assigned to the English army at the Battle of Falkirk in Scotland against Sir William Wallace, where on July 22, the Irish marched into battle line to the skirl of the warpipes as their cousins, the Scots, watched in amazment on the other side of the battlefield.
		The King recognized the warpipes ability to rouse Irishmen to acts of "insurrection" and "violence." England caused for the Statute of Kilkenny to be passed in 1366 making the possession and playing of the warpipes a penal offense, which included having pipers entertain in the home.
	www.obrienclan.com /bagpipe.htm (2278 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Unique to the Irish kerne (soldiers) was that the pipers actually lead their comrades into battle playing the warpipes, which Flood illustrates well in his use of the account by Standish O'Grady, who wrote about the Battle of the Curlews in County Sligo.
		In the following year, the Irish army was assigned to the English army at the Battle of Falkirk in Scotland against Sir William Wallace, where on July 22, the Irish marched into battle line to the skirl of the warpipes as their cousins, the Scots, watched in amazement on the other side of the battlefield.
		Irish jigs and reels are commonly played by bands throughout the world with bands such as the 78th.
	www.ipba.ie /warpipe.html (2224 words)

	Bagpipes - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A smaller, quieter instrument, the practice chanter, with a smaller reed than the GHB chanter reed, and lacking a bag or drones, is suitable for practice in settings where a great volume of sound would be inappropriate or unappreciated by neighbors or family members.
		The next most common type is the Irish or Uilleann (pronounced "illin," Irish for elbow) bagpipe; this vies with the Northumbrian smallpipe for the title of most developed bagpipe in existence.
		The name was chosen in honour of the Irish king Brian Boru, though this bagpipe is not a recreation of any pipes that were played at the time of his reign.
	encyclopedia.quickseek.com /index.php/Bagpipe (6081 words)

	Doyle Clan - The Great Irish Warpipe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		An observation of the Irish pipers was made by the musician Vincenzo Galilei in a published work titled Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music in 1581 in Florence.
		To France marched the Irish regiment in 1243 for King Henry III, and into battle they advanced to the sounds of their warpipes; as they did at Gascony in 1286-1289 under King Edward I, and into Flanders in 1297.
		King William banned all Irish minstrels, harpers and pipers.2 When the government Irish Guards were asked by King William which king they would serve, only seven of the 1200 kerne chose William.
	www.doyle.com.au /great_irish_warpipe.htm (2253 words)

	Ireland - Instruments of traditional music
		Irish Warpipes is much similar but has only one tenor pipe.
		The Irish Banjo has a string less, four, and these are usually heavier and are tuned on notes G-D-A-E. It's a wooden percussion instrument with goat skin much common in Irish traditional music.
		It's usually beaten with the right hand with a small stick called beater and touching or grazing in different points the back of the case with the left hand to vary the depth of the sound, from hollow and deep to acute and sharp.
	www.emmedici.com /journeys/eire/cultura/musica/estrumenti.htm (662 words)

	army.html
		The 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) when stationed in Aldershot in 1864 had a piper who played a 'combination pipe' which could be played 'as the present Irish pipe', or 'like the old Irish warpipe'.
		As a Rifle Regiment the Royal Irish Rifles retained their buglers and did not adopt the pipes until 1948 when they were brought into line with the other regiments in the North Irish Brigade.
		The first hint we have of Irish pipers' dress as we would recognise it appears in an indistinct press photograph of the funeral of the Duke of Abercorn, on 9 January 1913, which portrays pipers of the 4th Royal Irish Fusiliers in bonnets with kilts and purses.
	www.iol.ie /~ipba/army.html (1019 words)

	explore - Travel in Ireland and Northern Ireland
		In reality, this change of sides didn’t happen, but the Scots were so enamoured with the ferociousness of the Irish warpipes that they took them to their heart.
		Traditionally they were used by the Irish to emit ferocious battle cries and later in funeral corteges that would cause even the steely hearted to break down with sorrow and lament.
		William led his charge into battle with a warrior band on their warpipes (the bands of King James also piped - which would truly have been a sight to behold were it not for the subsequent massacre).
	www.explore.ie /ireland/article.php?ID=90&page=3 (464 words)

	Instruments
		The increase in number of Irish flute-players and the limited number of surviving antique flutes has led, in the late 20th century, to the development of flutes made especially for Irish music, which however are copies of the Victorian instruments.
		It seems that the Irish low whistle was invented by Irish uilleann piper, pipemaker, and whistle player Joe McKenna in the 1970’s after he bought 20 large red plastic whistle tops in a London junk shop and experimented with making brass-tubing bodies for them.
		The standard low whistle is in D, the same pitch as the Irish flute and "concert-pitch" uilleann pipes, and an octave lower than the usual D whistle.
	www.celticpiper.net /Cook3/instrumnt.htm (1193 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The warpipe was a favorite instrument of competition at the Art-Feis of Tara where once the Nine Piers of Brega" (ancient province of Meath) won national distinction and renown.
		The Irish pipers were well known to Europe in the early and middle ages, and were regarded as the inspiration for the valor of Irish troops by leading them into actual battle with their stirring music.
		At the November 1933 meeting the committee reported on the antiquity and authenticiey of Irish warpipes and submitted an estimated cost of $1,500 to equip and put a pipe band.
	www.tyronepipers.com /new_page_1.htm (452 words)

	Irish American Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although Jerry O’Sullivan plays Irish uilleann pipes, flute, various whistles, Highland warpipes, and Scottish small pipes, this CD is devoted to the uilleann pipes.
		As part of Gael-Linn’s Golden Jubilee, the Irish music label has released all 43 of the classic recordings that it put out between 1957 and 1961.
		The booklet is in Irish and English, and describes how the original records were made, and gives detailed notes on all the performers and all the tunes and songs.
	www.gaelicweb.com /irishampost/year2005/11nov/featured/featured12.html (1069 words)

	Irish Music Class The Instruments
		The Irish Warpipes are similar, but have only one tenor drone.
		The resultant musical sound was very lively and forceful It proclaimed the new Irish Independence in broad strokes without, however, adopting the rebel songs of blood guts and war.
		The tradition of the Irish ballad singer is that of a strong individual driven by the patriotism of his or her music.
	www.geocities.com /justirishmusic/ersesong3.html (2031 words)

	The Fiddler's Hearth
		Now there are intercommunications between the Irish and Scots on radio and television with a weekly radio programme co-hosted by BBC Radio na nGael in Scotland and Raidio na Gaeltachta in Ireland, and the broadcasting of exchange TV programmes between the two nations.
		The harp and the warpipes were common to both peoples, but were outlawed in Elizabethan times because of their nationalistic effects.
		But the warpipes continued to be played in Ireland as a national instrument and continued to have such recognition, not only in Ireland, but in a special way in the U.S. among the Irish-dominated police and fire departments.
	www.celtictraveler.com /feargal1.html (970 words)

	Peconic Warpipes - Pipes & Drums - Long Island, New York
		The Peconic Warpipes Bagpipes and Drums of Long Island were founded in 1997 by Tim Buckley, the band's first Pipe major, John Stevens, Rich Smith and Jerry Buckley.
		The name "Warpipes" is a nod to the traditional, and today rarely found, two droned Great Irish Warpipe played in Ireland from ancient times until the mid-eighteenth century.
		The Peconic Warpipes band members, of both Irish and Scottish descent, are proud to carry on the history and traditions of bagpipe bands from the distant past.
	peconicwarpipes.org /bandhistory.html (479 words)

	Louis Noble in the Irish Volunteers
		Louis was born near, and grew up in London, England, of Irish parents (someone once told him that if he was born in England, he wasn't Irish, to which he responded "A cat may have kittens in the oven, but they're not biscuits!"), and had an English Accent.
		He was once challenged that his name didn't sound Irish, and responded that he had a Gaelic name, Luhidgh Mac An Usail (Louis, the son of the nobleman).
		While a member of the I.R.A., but traveling in an Irish district where he was unknown, he was waiting for a train when the local I.R.A. men came and took the mail from the train to censor it.
	www.sonic.net /~johnpipe/bagpipes/lnoble/lnoble_irv.html (1083 words)

	upipes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although Elizabeth banned the warpipes - or Piob Mor - the Irish cleverly introduced a bagpipe which could be played only when seated and thus escaped the ban.
		It was many years before the Irish Warpipe emerged from the penal ban, as its introduction into the British Army was a process of gradual and unofficial infiltration.
		Following the first World War, the right of Irish soldiers to march behind their traditional music was acknowledged and the Warpipes which had left Ireland in 1691 -- but had sounded all over Europe for a hundred years with the Irish Brigade of King Louis' army - returned to their homeland.
	members.aol.com /heather130/upipes.html (704 words)

	Ceol na Gael - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		King William banned all Irish minstrels, harpers and pipers.
		When the government Irish Guards were asked by King William which king they would serve, only seven of the 1200 kerne chose William.
		Instead of tartan they wore a solid color, and instead of glengarry and balmoral hats, they wore the Irish caubeen (an oversized beret).
	www.ceolnagael.com /history4.htm (678 words)

	wandering-hands.com -- Spinning Brighid Liner Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The name Athole (or Atholl) derives from the Gaelic ath Fodla, generally translated as New Ireland, and stems from the first invasion of the northern land by the Irish tribe the Scots in the 7th century (Matthews, 1972).
		The tune, described sometimes as a Scottish warpipes melody, is dedicated to the private army of the Duke of Atholl, the last private army still legally existing in the British Isles (Boys of the Lough).
		Irish music typically spans nine degrees (one octave plus one note) where the Breton generally spans only eight notes (one octave) (Tonio?, p.
	www.wandering-hands.com /liner.htm (3270 words)

	Entertainer Bio - Opening Ceremony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The 69th New York State Volunteers Historical Association is a non-profit living history organization founded in 1984 for the purpose of accurately portraying the life of the Irish soldier in the Union Army to the general public.
		West Cork Flying Column (1919-1921): The West Cork Flying Column was one of the units that fought for the Irish Republic in the Anglo-Irish War of 1919-1922.
		Many of the surviving leaders of the 1916 Uprising became the leaders of the Irish Republic, which declared itself the legitimate government of Ireland on the 21st of January 1919.
	www.adamscountyirishfestival.com /bios/oc.html (599 words)

	The Irish Brigade: Never Were Men So Brave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		That was the Irish Brigade in the Battle of Fredericksburg, paying with their lives for Burnside's tragic blunder.
		Born in County Waterford, Ireland in 1823, he was described as "the counterpart of some rash, impolitic, poetic personage from Irish poetry or fiction." Son of a wealthy merchant, he was an active disciple of Irish liberty and participated in the various independence movements.
		While there he found it necessary to dispel rumors that the Irish regiments were being sacrificed by "Black Republicans." Then the brigade was particularly saddened by the death from malaria of a popular young staff officer, Lieutenant Temple Emmet, grandnephew of one of Ireland's greatest martyrs, Robert Emmet.
	www.thehistorynet.com /cwti/blneverweremensobrave (1477 words)

	ENGLISH.ZDE.CZ
		From the thump of the Bodhrán to the airy rasp of the wooden flute, celtic music is known by its instruments.
		The banjo most used in Irish music is a 4-string tenor banjo, with the standard strings replaced by heavier ones, tunes to GDAE.
		The mandocello is also known as the octave mandolin and is similar to what is known as the Irish bouzouki - a much modified version of the Greek bouzouki, introduced to Irish music by Johnny Moynihan, in his Sweeney's men days in the late sixties, and now almost a standard in Irish groups.
	filipzika.wz.cz /english/index.php?jmenosouboru=3b (1990 words)

	Irish & Celtic Instruments at AnIrishChristmas.com
		Ireland's version of these is known as Irish warpipes.
		In traditional Irish music, however, you are much more likely to encounter the sonically mellow, bellows-driven uilleann pipes.
		The bodhran is a small handheld drum popular in Irish music; the playing surface is goatskin, stretched over a wooden frame.
	www.anirishchristmas.com /celtic/gifts/celtic-instruments.html (724 words)

	CELTIC MUSIC - Panama Music Library
		Many Irish regiments in the British army adopted this tune as their regimental march, playing it on the Irish warpipes
		A 500 year old tune played here on the highland warpipes can be traced back to a Pibroch which is the classical music of the bagpipes.
		Later in time the tempo of this tune was increased to a march and played on the warpipes.
	www.panamamusic.co.uk /PANAMA023.htm (1389 words)

	Irish Echo Online - Arts
		A gleefulness likewise infuses O'Sullivan's playing of "Quick-Step/Willy Winky" polkas, and the change he effects between the "Doubaling" and "The Bucks of Tipperary" double jigs is a galvanizing, spot-on joy.
		Born in 1919 in the village of Treenabontry, near Kiltimagh, Co. Mayo, Shannon was surrounded by music there but only took up the pipes, on which he was self-taught, after immigrating with his family to Chicago in 1929.
		This dexterity, coupled with his other contributions to the vitality of Chicago's Irish music scene, made him the second Irish musician residing in America to earn a coveted National Heritage Fellowship.
	www.irishecho.com /newspaper/story.cfm?id=15827 (1313 words)

	A Tour Of Bagpipeland
		The older irish pipes were pitched lower at C, B or B-flat.
		The irish warpipes of modern make are available in B-flat with one bass and one tenor drone.
		The chanters on these (and Irish warpipes) are limited to 9 notes.
	larkinthemorning.com /article.asp?AI=27 (2143 words)

	Tuning for Intermediates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For warpipes, the top 2 notes should be slightly quieter than the others.
		While 2 warpipers will blow a single chanter almost identically, 2 uilleann pipers may blow the same chanter so differently that they can be identified simply playing a scale.
		Warming-up is not purely a matter of heat (and moisture for warpipes), it's also a matter of reed shape.
	polarmet.mps.ohio-state.edu /~bdaye/tuning.html (2970 words)

	Inniskilling Fusiliers
		The 1st, the old 27th Foot, dates from 1689; the 2nd, the late 108th, was the 3rd Madras Europeans before it was amalgamated with the home army, and was third of its name, two other "108th" having existed between 1761 and 1763, and from 1797 to 1798.
		The 27th Inniskillings was the result of a combination of three battalions of Foot raised for the defence of the town of Inniskilling in the Irish war, and took part also in the battles of Aughrim, the Boyne, and Limerick.
		The badges are "Egypt" with the Sphinx, the Castle of Innsikilling with St George's colour flying, and the word "Inniskilling", and the white horse of Hanover with "Nec aspera terrent".
	www.regimental-art.com /inniskilling_fusiliers1.htm (1697 words)

	Great Highland Bagpipe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The GHB is also adopted in Thailand; around 1921, King Rama VI ordered the set to accompany an marching exercises of an Sua Pa, or Wild Tiger Corps (a royal guard unit which had previously practiced to an sounds of an oboe called pi chawa).
		It dates largely from an last two centuries, being either Scottish or Irish folk music played on an pipes, tunes written by pipers in an British Army during this time, or, increasingly, tunes composed by pipers in civilian pipe bands.
		A smaller, quieter instrument, an practice chanter, with the smaller reed than an GHB chanter reed, with lacking the bag or drones, is suitable of practice in settings where the great volume of sound would be inappropriate or unappreciated by neighbors or family members.
	karidian.bloggerscape.com /Great_Highland_Bagpipe (1335 words)

	Entertainer Bio - Rodney Owens, "The Celtic Piper" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rodney Owens has played the Highland Bagpipes (or Irish Warpipes) at many special occasions in and around the Pennsylvania State Capitol for Governor, Lt. Governor, Speaker of the House, and other dignataries.
		He has recently taken up the Uilleann Pipes (or Irish bagpipe) and is a member of the Irish Pipers Society, Na Piobaire Uilleann, Dublin Ireland.
		He is also an honorary member and piper of the Old Comrades Association of the Royal Scottish Fusiliers Regiment in Ayr, Scotland.
	www.adamscountyirishfestival.com /bios/rodowens.html (170 words)

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