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| | Jimmy Young, Pipeworks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Young, founder of the New Zealand group Rua, uses the album as a conduit to deliver different types of bagpipes -- the Scottish smallpipes, Northumbrian pipes and border pipes -- and blends them with the mandolin, fiddle, viola, hurdy gurdy, mandola, and cello. |
 | | Young's playing is sharp and his style is distinctive; on "Sir William Hardie's Waltzruka," for instance, his fingers practically fly over the keys, though each note is crisp, each nuance clear. |
 | | Young, a musician and composer for the last 20 years, also plays whistles and percussion, and is a renowned flutist (a sound sadly absent from this album because, he notes in the liner, his prize flute was stolen from London's Royal Oak Pub). |
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