Traditional Irish Tunes on The Uilleann Pipes - Finbar Furey, 1989

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  • Finbar Furey tells Iarla Ó Lionaird about learning to play the pipes and making reeds.
    As a piper, Finbar Furey takes a special interest in the care and making of reeds for the instrument. He is concerned about the decline in reed making among young uilleann pipe players. He himself learned the technique from piper Dan Dowd and recalls his favourite chanter reed.
    Ted Furey, Finbar’s father, was a fiddler and travelling musician, and taught him the pipes when the family settled in Ballyfermot. His other teachers were Johnny Keenan and Tommy Moore.
    Felix Doran from Rathnew in County Wicklow was another piper who called to their house regularly, and master piper Seamus Ennis often came to stay for the weekend.
    "It was one of these houses, the music didn’t stop."
    Finbar plays two tunes, the first a slow air called ‘A Spailpín A Rún’ and the second, a reel titled ‘The Silver Tip’ where he is joined by sean-nós dancer Seamus Ó Dubháin from Cill Chiaráin in the Connemara Gaeltacht.
    This episode of ‘The Pure Drop’ broadcast on 10 October 1989. The presenter is Iarla Ó Lionáird.
    ‘The Pure Drop’ is described by the RTÉ Guide in 1988 as “A nine part traditional music series featuring the best solo instrumentalists playing in Ireland today and occasionally featuring small groups.”
    The programme was first broadcast on 14 January 1988 and ran until February 1996. Presenters were James Kelly, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Paddy Glackin and Martin McGinley.
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  • @tulligman
    @tulligman 2 года назад +82

    Finbar is a national treasure.

    • @roooroooooooo1091
      @roooroooooooo1091 2 года назад +4

      Iarla, the interviewer is also a national treasure. One of the best living seannós singers

    • @user-sf9fd6ol7n
      @user-sf9fd6ol7n Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/F96cJV0Msog/видео.html

    • @user-sf9fd6ol7n
      @user-sf9fd6ol7n Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/hnsqpmav5HE/видео.html

    • @Neo-mw1pp
      @Neo-mw1pp Год назад

      @@roooroooooooo1091 Really? Link??

    • @roooroooooooo1091
      @roooroooooooo1091 Год назад +2

      @@Neo-mw1pp Him with his trad group "the gloaming": ruclips.net/video/mmq6k0D7w_0/видео.html
      Him playing Franky in “Brooklyn”: ruclips.net/video/hnsqpmav5HE/видео.html
      Táimse I mo chodladh: ruclips.net/video/EJt18WYjI7U/видео.html
      He has also producted albums featuring the likes of Sinead O’Connor

  • @erichicky8931
    @erichicky8931 4 месяца назад +19

    Where on earth has that Ireland gone? What a job they have done on us.!

    • @caseyphudson
      @caseyphudson 2 месяца назад

      It went with the rest of the world.

    • @whistletom
      @whistletom 2 месяца назад +3

      It's still there. Pay attention.

    • @anthonydonlan3140
      @anthonydonlan3140 19 дней назад

      Ireland has kept its culture. England lost their's during the industrial revolution.. I'm born in England I think Dublin's a bit of a theme park but it's OK, I prefer the west coast.

    • @timXJ220
      @timXJ220 18 дней назад

      I'm going to take up the Uileann Pipes to do my ancestors proud. For the did not die in ditches, nor die in vain so that Culture and People may be lost forever more. 🇮🇪🙏✝️ God Bless Éire and Her People

    • @anthonydonlan3140
      @anthonydonlan3140 18 дней назад

      Their in every corner of the world and like here in England they took pure shit... my parents arrived to no Black's No Dog's No Irish.. And Irish need not apply.. The irony, I'm glad thier not here to see it at the moment.

  • @Sionnach1601
    @Sionnach1601 Год назад +22

    The pipes are the soul of the country.
    They take you away out beyond your office walls over the fields, the lakes and the mountains until your spirit soars free over the Atlantic

    • @cheefussmith9380
      @cheefussmith9380 7 месяцев назад +1

      Indeed, heavenly!

    • @Lee-nh5bb
      @Lee-nh5bb 4 месяца назад +1

      .....🎶 And reaches us here down under! 🎶

    • @paulmckenzie4291
      @paulmckenzie4291 2 месяца назад +2

      So well said. The pipes are woven into the mind beyond thought, so that those who've never yet had the luck of setting foot on Ireland's soil, or even seen the coast, are still arrested by the sound and know, despite distance and generation, that Ireland is in their blood and heart.

    • @Sionnach1601
      @Sionnach1601 2 месяца назад +1

      @@paulmckenzie4291 Very well said Paul.
      Éireann chun na hÉireannaigh 🙏🙏☘☘

    • @paulmckenzie4291
      @paulmckenzie4291 2 месяца назад +1

      @@Sionnach1601Thanks for the kind reply. Ní bhíonn chuile fhánaí ar strae

  • @raybo64
    @raybo64 Год назад +16

    Fantastic instrument in the hands of a master piper. Excellent.

  • @devon6482
    @devon6482 2 года назад +27

    Finbar's music touches my heart like no other !

  • @tommythomas9449
    @tommythomas9449 Год назад +16

    I'm from up north Queensland Australia.and this to me is a jem .half of the blokes that I know bloodline come from Ireland and they would not even know the significance of this music.finbar is an icon the fureys and davey arthur are my favourite.love the music very close to heart

  • @davidbrennan3613
    @davidbrennan3613 8 месяцев назад +11

    Pure magic by one of lrelands most gifted musican's

  • @Eternalnowisthekey
    @Eternalnowisthekey 8 месяцев назад +8

    Finbar is such a multitalented musician.. he’s an Irish gem 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

  • @seanlong6578
    @seanlong6578 2 дня назад

    Feckin BRILLIANT there just are no other words for it.. Just BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!

  • @marjoriestirk703
    @marjoriestirk703 Год назад +13

    The first time I ever heard these pipes was on an LP I bought in the early sixties. There were various artists on it. Two of the tracks were Finbar playing Star Of Munster and the hairs on the back of My neck stood on end. The other track I loved was Eddie Furey singing Pretty Saro. I have seen them many many times and have had the pleasure of meeting them on a few occasions and what a friendly lot they are. No airs or graces just good craic. They are still My favourite band and always will be. They are all such talented musicians

  • @davidbrennan3613
    @davidbrennan3613 8 месяцев назад +6

    The sound from the pipes is fantastic and unique

  • @olieahern1318
    @olieahern1318 2 года назад +16

    Met finbar in cork about 3 years ago what a great personality had time for his fans after his gig a genius 👏

    • @Roddy1965
      @Roddy1965 2 года назад +6

      Had a beer with the Furey's after a gig in Newfoundland back in mid 90s. They were just great lads, homesick, and humble. Great experience.

    • @larryoconnor7094
      @larryoconnor7094 2 года назад

      More of this I "met finbar" bull shit...

    • @Roddy1965
      @Roddy1965 2 года назад +3

      @@larryoconnor7094 I guess poor Larry didn't have the good fortune to meet Finbar? Good thing, Finbar is much nicer than Mr. O'Connor, it seems. Larry likes to refute people's experiences of which he knows nothing. If it's any consolation, I know Paddy Keenan pretty well, too.

    • @PH5221
      @PH5221 Год назад +2

      @@larryoconnor7094 What you on about? They toured all over the place and met tens of thousands of people.

  • @andrewhayes9913
    @andrewhayes9913 3 месяца назад +4

    Aren't we lucky to be Irish all the same

    • @timXJ220
      @timXJ220 3 дня назад

      Aren't we just 🇮🇪🙏✝ Éirinn go Brách

  • @biniou24
    @biniou24 Год назад +8

    Just MAGIC !

  • @niallmac44
    @niallmac44 2 года назад +10

    The interviewer talks about Finbar's father Ted, being a fiddle player but I do remember Ted telling me how he was the first in his family to play a stringed instrument. So he had played the pipes and I do remember a magical night in O'Donoghue's when Ted and Seamus Ennis swapped instruments. As my friend, Johnny Beggan said "Those fuckers could play anything."

    • @laurencesmith2199
      @laurencesmith2199 2 года назад +4

      lol Good comment , especially the father Ted bit .
      Davy Spillane can send me into trances .

    • @toadthewhole1447
      @toadthewhole1447 2 года назад

      @@laurencesmith2199
      Stop eating magic mushrooms, dropping acid, wash yourself so you can get off the dole and get a job, ya bollix.

  • @warburtonsbread481
    @warburtonsbread481 2 года назад +7

    Music to my ears ❤

  • @michaelheraghty309
    @michaelheraghty309 Год назад +4

    JOHN PEEL rip .helped THE FUREYS when starting out in late 60 S.playing there early music.

  • @odonnchada9994
    @odonnchada9994 11 месяцев назад +3

    Class Uilleann Pipes.☘️🇮🇪🎵🎶🎼

  • @cheefussmith9380
    @cheefussmith9380 7 месяцев назад +1

    Irish but I live in the us. My father took us to see the Fureys (among others) every time they visited. Incredible and Finbar was so nice to me when I was a boy. Now I’m trying to return the favour by keeping the music alive for my children. National treasures all of them. Iarla included, mind you! ❤🇮🇪

  • @martinlouden9005
    @martinlouden9005 7 месяцев назад +2

    A beautiful performance on the pipes and equally impressive was the dance of the multi Guinness enthusiast!

  • @JDLeonard74
    @JDLeonard74 2 года назад +5

    Breath taking 🤯❤️

  • @Idontknow-ly9bu
    @Idontknow-ly9bu 2 года назад +4

    Brings tears to my eyes

  • @patrickodonnell4109
    @patrickodonnell4109 2 года назад +8

    Pure Genius. Thank you for this amazing post 🎶

  • @suea.swlondon7799
    @suea.swlondon7799 Год назад +6

    Just wonderful...Especially the dancer at the end ..I'm seventy one and although I have been involved with folk music for many years, I can honestly say that Irish music and dance has become my passion over the last fifteen or so years.. The pipes are incredibly evocative. Finbar Furey being one of the best pipers. Thank you.

    • @Ubu987
      @Ubu987 Год назад +1

      This is the first time I ever heard a dancer on the beat instead of before, or even almost randomly as if there was no music. That guy was really listening and in the tune!

  • @fivetwoeight528
    @fivetwoeight528 Год назад +4

    Absolutely brilliant

  • @ronaldmansfield.6439
    @ronaldmansfield.6439 5 месяцев назад +2

    So good.

  • @markbird1965
    @markbird1965 Год назад +2

    Always loved the blackbird from the dawning of the day album

  • @markbird1965
    @markbird1965 9 месяцев назад +2

    Beautiful lament

  • @CameronLockey
    @CameronLockey 8 месяцев назад +1

    Unreal. Absolutely inspirational. I love his regulator work.

  • @rhysie9983
    @rhysie9983 Год назад +2

    Love Finbar - Amazing character and Artist.

  • @Redtop1965
    @Redtop1965 5 месяцев назад +1

    Fabulous, plus the dancing at the end 👌.

  • @yorganyog
    @yorganyog Месяц назад

    He plays really excelent.

  • @WeedLandMania
    @WeedLandMania 5 месяцев назад

    L’écoute à elle seule vaut tous les commentaires du monde…cette musique a été faite pour ce pipes….un chef d’oeuvre….
    Merci pour le partage sincèrement.

  • @Inquisitor_Vex
    @Inquisitor_Vex 22 дня назад

    That was absolutely stunning. Beyond beautiful.

  • @Sionnach1601
    @Sionnach1601 Год назад +8

    The way things are going, in another few years, you'll be called far right if you like to listen to this, if not already.
    We are supposed to NOT be proud of this fantastic, ancient, amazing, RICH culture that is ours.
    Anyway, Finbarr Furry thank you. You're an ambassador for Éireann, God bless ya. 🇮🇪🇮🇪

    • @CathyD1976
      @CathyD1976 10 месяцев назад

      Ffs the biggest empire in the World tried to stop us and failed stop talking nonsense. You cannot take something from us that is part of our very dna and core

    • @ApeOfMyIdeal
      @ApeOfMyIdeal 8 месяцев назад

      Is there anything you weirdoes won't try and ruin with your pitiful mé féinism? Always trying to invent new ways to be victims. If you're being called "far right" it's not because you're into trad music it's probably coz your a reactionary with a persecution complex.

  • @user-tr5ny9mq2m
    @user-tr5ny9mq2m Месяц назад

    Haunting❤

  • @birgitconrad4893
    @birgitconrad4893 Год назад +2

    Wonderful!

  • @user-st1ld5te6j
    @user-st1ld5te6j Месяц назад

    Genius, saw them live in gleneagles in Killarney,1989❤

  • @NotAFanAnymore
    @NotAFanAnymore 9 месяцев назад +2

    Legendary

  • @edmundcoyle364
    @edmundcoyle364 2 месяца назад

    Beautiful.

  • @zombfi
    @zombfi 4 месяца назад

    Thank you for this.

  • @annetaylor-wx5dk
    @annetaylor-wx5dk 5 месяцев назад

    Why does this music bring me to tears? I'm not even Irish !

  • @banjodulce
    @banjodulce 2 месяца назад

    Gorgeous!

  • @margo4137
    @margo4137 Год назад +1

    I love my home country

  • @DarBC77
    @DarBC77 Год назад +3

    Powerful

  • @dyehousefilms9492
    @dyehousefilms9492 2 месяца назад

    Brilliant!

  • @bhante1345
    @bhante1345 Год назад +1

    A force of nature!

  • @haddockpaddock9462
    @haddockpaddock9462 Год назад +1

    Gold.

  • @andrewhayes9913
    @andrewhayes9913 5 месяцев назад

    Ohhhh long live it.

  • @denismurray868
    @denismurray868 Год назад +1

    top class brilliant muso

  • @geoffbenoy2052
    @geoffbenoy2052 Год назад +2

    Go maith!!!

  • @michaelmckenna-hennessey6009
    @michaelmckenna-hennessey6009 7 месяцев назад

    A true legend

  • @Lee-nh5bb
    @Lee-nh5bb 2 месяца назад

    Go Seamus!!! 🕺

  • @carlmildner859
    @carlmildner859 Месяц назад

    beautiful ... is all you can say about this

  • @germurtagh7288
    @germurtagh7288 Год назад +2

    Finbar can make a banjo sing😁😁😁

  • @janm2473
    @janm2473 2 года назад +6

    How absolutely beautiful... Finbar looks around 20? 25? Thank you, CR.

  • @archaicrevival7878
    @archaicrevival7878 6 месяцев назад

    Holy feckin sheet Finbar!

  • @alangorman6087
    @alangorman6087 Месяц назад

    Best piper in the world bye a country Mile.

  • @woodyspooner
    @woodyspooner 8 дней назад +1

    I prefer the sound of the uilleann pipes. They have a more soulful sound when played slowly, unlike the Scottish bagpipes

  • @JosephE-yd6ks
    @JosephE-yd6ks 2 года назад +27

    Can't he make it talk

    • @geoffthomas2221
      @geoffthomas2221 7 месяцев назад

      I doth my cap to the two men in suits

    • @thesceptic1018
      @thesceptic1018 5 месяцев назад

      Close enough

    • @Christopher1990z
      @Christopher1990z 4 месяца назад +1

      He can make it scream boy

    • @fionncarty8913
      @fionncarty8913 3 месяца назад

      Even better , he makes it sing

    • @timXJ220
      @timXJ220 3 дня назад

      Can he what.... . In awe of the Man for his God given talent 🇮🇪🙏✝️

  • @kyle2931
    @kyle2931 9 месяцев назад

    First time I ever heard of these pipes, I think - and if I’m not mistaken - came from the video for Josh Groban’s video for “You Raise Me Up”. Very cool.

    • @kyle2931
      @kyle2931 9 месяцев назад

      Minus the typo, 🤣. Oops. 🙂

  • @johnandkathleenodonnell4130
    @johnandkathleenodonnell4130 Год назад +4

    So, tell us, who was the dancer? Was that a spontaneous performance or planned? I loved the music, the chat and the dancer, too.

    • @wallopcock
      @wallopcock Год назад +1

      Dancers is Séamus Devane .

    • @Chilavertish
      @Chilavertish Год назад +4

      He had a few bottles of cider in front of him so it might have been spontaneous 😄

    • @wolfthequarrelsome504
      @wolfthequarrelsome504 Год назад +1

      Dunno.....cept he used lay tarmac as a day job.

    • @wolfthequarrelsome504
      @wolfthequarrelsome504 Год назад

      ​@@wallopcock it fcuk7n is in English.

  • @adamtier3263
    @adamtier3263 Год назад +2

    This is Ireland 💚

    • @marianlynch4829
      @marianlynch4829 Год назад +3

      Let's for the love of God keep it that way...

  • @denismurray868
    @denismurray868 11 месяцев назад +1

    complete control

  • @duffythedancer
    @duffythedancer 3 месяца назад

    Why o why did he seem to abandon the pipes....a master

  • @alistairbanfield6965
    @alistairbanfield6965 2 месяца назад

    Lovely and at the same time sad to see the great fiddler Sean Keane sitting next to Finbar. Who is the dancer?

  • @bridgetburns1193
    @bridgetburns1193 Год назад +1

    Great Irishman. 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

  • @dominiclapinta8537
    @dominiclapinta8537 Год назад +1

    Also, they make some good synthetic reed for Uilleann Pipes. And not the ones that go into the regulators, but ones that go into the melody pipe. I have some and they are great. They have none of the weaknesses of cane reed because they take less pressure to sound, they don't absord moisture and they are made of plastic, so they last a very long time. I'm still playing with the same reeds years later, and they sound great, and I can take the melody pipe apart from the set, use the adapter that fits it, and play anytime I want, just like as if I had a practice chanter. I did this before I got a practice set for over two years.
    ruclips.net/user/shortsllSPJ1Vhwb8?feature=share

  • @cirrianderspielmann3965
    @cirrianderspielmann3965 Год назад +3

    ☘️...can someone tell me the name of the beautiful Lament / Air?

    • @chrisormston
      @chrisormston Год назад +1

      Spailpin A Ruin

    • @cirrianderspielmann3965
      @cirrianderspielmann3965 Год назад +1

      @@chrisormston ☘️Vielen Dank Chris ! Best Regards from Cirrian/ Uilleannpiper (Germany)

  • @eamonnclabby7067
    @eamonnclabby7067 Год назад +1

    Slainte...Finbar....E.....

  • @user-fu5io1ys1v
    @user-fu5io1ys1v 6 месяцев назад

    Aye the be the one

  • @peter-subramanian
    @peter-subramanian Год назад +1

    Wait, is elder better or worse than cane...?

    • @stansmith4054
      @stansmith4054 Год назад +1

      Elder causes a more mellow soft sound. Makers use cane now because it's easier to work with, less expensive and holds shape a tad longer.

  • @wolfthequarrelsome504
    @wolfthequarrelsome504 Год назад

    And starts @ 3 00

  • @johnnotrealname8168
    @johnnotrealname8168 3 месяца назад

    The first guy who speaks has the same accent as Richard Martin Spring, why?

  • @ballygeale1
    @ballygeale1 2 года назад

    He must be 80 by now

    • @niallmac44
      @niallmac44 2 года назад +2

      Not quite. He is a couple of years younger than I and I am 77

    • @kennedyobrien1
      @kennedyobrien1 Год назад +1

      He'll be 76 in September

    • @odonnchada9994
      @odonnchada9994 8 месяцев назад +1

      His Music Is Timeless.

  • @cbucks1923
    @cbucks1923 Месяц назад

    Dieing art then . Dead and buried now I'd say

  • @johndoyle2397
    @johndoyle2397 4 месяца назад

    Does anyone Scottish out there say the bagpipes are inferior to yhe uillean pipes

    • @alistairbanfield6965
      @alistairbanfield6965 2 месяца назад

      What we call Highland Pipes are also played in Ireland. They're both bagpipes. Uilleann pipes are bellows blown, rather than hot air blown. Bellows blown pipes are also found in Scotland and the north of England and there are traditional mouth blown bagpipes in almost every country in the world. Certainly they are found in Spain (gaitas) and Wales and France (cornemuse, cabrette, chabretta and bodega pipes).

  • @marklynch9527
    @marklynch9527 7 месяцев назад

    Do you wanna buy a dag

  • @highplainsdrifter2775
    @highplainsdrifter2775 6 месяцев назад

    I didn’t think Jeremy Clarkson had a beard back then. 🙂

  • @MikeL-7
    @MikeL-7 Год назад

    Is it any wonder the Fureys were such legendary drinkers when there was all that crap 80s decor to put up with. I was nearly driven blind by the rat coloured carpets and Iarla’s chair which looks like it was stolen out of the ILAC Library. And who would begrudge Finbar his porter? He is a hardy man, and I know one thing I wouldn’t stop him. A

  • @markkavanagh4457
    @markkavanagh4457 Год назад +1

    What's the air called??