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Píobaire, An, Volume 1, Issue 20, Page 10

Píobaire, An, Volume 1, Issue 20, Page 10
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Na Píobairí Uilleann
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Chairman, NPU
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Píobaire, An
volume Number
1
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(135)In short, this blind mechanic is as yet unequalled,for elegance of workmanship and perfection of scale,in one of our favourite national instruments. Fronta rude block of ebony, a fragment of an elephantstooth, and a piece of silver.....having first formed4iis lathe and his tools, he shapes and bores the complicated tubes, graduates the ventages, adapts thekeys, and forms an instrument of perfect externalfinish and beauty that discourses most eloquent music.capable of expressing the finest movements in melody,and by no means deficient in harmony: and all this bythe exquisite sensibility, of the touch, for he isstone blind, and quite incapable of distinguishingthe black colour of ebony from the white of ivory.Under poverty therefore and physical privation of themost overwhe]iping kind, he has gradually brought hismechanical powers to this pitch of comparative per fectiont What an incentive to perseverance underdifficulties much less insuperable. It is hoped thatthe readers of this article will be induced to inquireinto the actual authenticity of the statement, and beled to encourage such extraordinary application andingenuity.oooOoooPipers Competition continued .3rd Robert Thompson, for Geese in the Bog.The Rogue has his Breeches on, and Kittys Wishes -all, jigs.Small prizes were also givento Rowsom, Cash, and Delaneyfor their good playing of known airs.Dr. Culwick has been good enough to undertake, by aid ofthe phonograph records, to obtain the correct notation ofthese provisional additions to the already ample stores ofnative melodies. No doubt, in due time these will be pub-lished,.:and possibly, when musical experts have collatedthem, some may be found to be merely variants of airs al -ready known.Now that this Feis Ceoil has been such a success, it wouldbe well to consider the desirability of holding the nextone in Belfast. The splendid position taken by the BelfastChoir shows that in musical taste and execution Northernsare not a whit behind those in the South; and it should neverbe forgotten that the Great Harpers Meeting here a cen-tury ago was the means of preserving our native music forall time, and gives Belfast a claim which even Dublin cannotdispute.oooOoooScrG na Cailli mar a bT il l i inDIarr sf ax Dhia bheith g aristA u ar Mhuire bheith deas,Cii dfhjacla mine ti1 i chur na ceann thar n-aisAgus naoi n-aonbhar dfhearaibh 6ga abheith a failbh 1s d searc.
issue Number
20
page Number
10
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issue Publication Date
1975-02-01T00:00:00
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Píobaire, An, Volume 1, Issue 20

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