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Volume One, March 1999.
Seán Reid The Seán Reid Society.
Constitution and Rules.
Notes for Contributors.
News. Garret Barry gravesite/memorial; William Kennedy set uncovered;
Mickey "Cumbá" O'Sullivan; query regarding Thomas Coullie, pipemaker.
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1.01 An early set of Irish pipes, circa 1780. Ken McLeod & Wilbert
Garvin. Description, many pictures and detailed drawings of one
of the finest examples of an early Union pipe.
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1.02 Transcriptions of tunes by R.L. O'Mealy. Robbie Hannan.
A
collection of hand written tunes and notes which O’Mealy had sent to a
customer and which are now in the Ulster Folk Museum.
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1.03 A list of makers to circa 1940. Mark Walstrom. Believed
to be the most complete list of makers yet produced.
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1.04 Rolling metal ferrules and tubes for Uilleann pipes. Geoff Wooff.
Geoff shares some expertise in making pipes - the way the old masters
made them.
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1.05 A brief look at the piping style of Paddy Conneely. Jimmy
O'Brien-Moran. A musical study analysing how Conneely actually
played.
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1.06 From Hotteterre to the Union pipes. Ken McLeod. Some
thoughts and proposals on the origins of the Union pipe.
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1.07 A piping MP: Joseph Myles McDonnell (1796-1872). Seán
Donnelly. A look at the life of a great eccentric and original
owner of the fine Kenna set in the National museum, Dublin.
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1.08 A Galway gentleman piper. Seán Donnelly. Story
of a song.
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1.09 A South Australian reed and pipe hoard. Craig Fischer.
A study of some very old reeds possibly by Coyne and Taylor and
measurements of a Maurice Coyne chanter.
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1.10 Reconstructing chanter reeds / A John Coyne chanter. John Hughes.
As the title implies this is how to repair cracked reeds and the
measurement of a John Coyne chanter.
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1.11 Runaway pipers. Barry O'Neill. Articles
of interest from early 18th century American newspapers.
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1.12 Rhythm & structure in Irish traditional dance music. Part 1.
The
double jig as played on the Irish pipes. Pat Mitchell. An
in-depth musical study with examples.
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1.13 Piping contests at the feis, 1897 - 1935. Barry O'Neill. A
list of all the entrants.
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1.14 The M. Dunn set at Morpeth. Anne Moore. Quality
photographs of a high quality set of pipes in the Morpeth bagpipe museum.
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1.15 Name index.
Every name appearing in the Journal is indexed here with dates and where
that name appears.