Ten Years to the Day

[Dughlas mor]

Here is one I just came across, "The High Drive," with banjo back up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY6oHQHyN-8

[jthk]

Here is one I just came across, "The High Drive," with banjo back up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY6oHQHyN-8

That's a nice clip there although I could do without the guitar player. There's a piper in Vermont, Tim Cummings, who has a recording with him playing with the fantastic banjo player Pete Sutherland. http://www.birchenmusic.com/piper-in-holler.html. I like the contrasting sounds of pipes and banjo, personally, although I realize it's not everyone's thing.

And then there's this ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlTxTCxgG7g from the Piping Centre in Glasgow in 2003.

Regards,
Jonathan

[OC Richard]

To me, traditional musics sound best on the instruments on which the music was composed and transmitted.

While it's interesting to hear musicians of one tradition dabbling in the music of another, on a instrument not part of the other tradition, to me it utterly lacks the gravitas and emotive content of the actual tradition, and strikes me as little more than a novelty.

For this example, a tune from my native State being playing as well as possible, by wonderful players, on the uilleann and Lowland pipes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsgndkJ9p20

Sounds OK until you hear it on the sort of instruments it's traditionally played on... then you hear the vast amount which has been lost in translation from an instrument native to the tradition, to instruments which are not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGNOJ9-Biws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkgfBj2ztk8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRvwMrucntI

This is cool, because you have everything: instrumental, vocal, and dance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJBYHr3MGSk

Here is the source player, Eddin Hammons of West Virginia (recorded as a very old man on a borrowed fiddle)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHJbZr_zMj0