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The Trip to Durrow (Reel) - Ciarán Browne on concert pitch pipes. (Advanced level)
Johnny McGreevy's (Jig) - Ciarán Browne on concert pitch pipes. (Intermediate level)
Elizabeth Kelly's Delight (Slip Jig) - Ciarán Browne on concert pitch pipes. (Intermediate level)
Dillon Browne, The Clare Reel (Reels)
Gusty's Frolics, The Silver Spear, The Dublin Reel (Jig, Reels)
The Shaskeen, The Bag of Spuds (Reels)
Caisleán Dhún Guaire, Mrs Galvin's (Hornpipe, Fling)
The Humours of Kilclogher, The Blarney Pilgrim (Jigs)
The Dogs Among the Bushes, The Swallow's Tail (Reels)
A selection of Beginner Tunes
A selection of Intermediate Tunes
A selection of Advanced Tunes
A selection of Airs
A selection of videos of pipers from our monthly recital series "Session with the Pipers" at the Cobblestone, Smithfield
Peter Browne John Brogan Set
Set made by Denis Harrington in Cork in the 1850s. It was sent from America to Leo Rowsome in part payment for a new set of Leo’s making, and in the 1950s it was purchased from Leo by Ronan Browne’s parents. Ronan has been playing the set for many years and, along with Geoff Wooff, has made the name of Harrington celebrated throughout the piping world.
In Irish Minstrels and Musicians (Chicago 1913), Francis O’Neill was able to provide only the scantiest information on Harrington’s career:
Harrington . . . was the son of a small farmer, but he couldn’t be kept away from music. He went to the city and lived on Hanover Street, where our informant often saw him making pipes. “Over fifty years ago,” says Mr. O’Neill, “the first exhibition in Cork was held. Harrington made a set of Irish pipes for the occasion. The keys and ferrules were of silver, and he sold them at the exhibition for fifty pounds. At the Munster Feis at Cork, about eight years ago, I complimented one of the pipers, named Cash, from the county of Wicklow, on the beauty of his pipes. He drew my attention to the words, ‘Harrington, Cork,’ branded on every stick of them. I have an old set of Harrington’s make left me by a piper named John O’Neill.”
Discouraged by the direful condition of affairs resulting from the famine, Harrington emigrated to America and all trace of him was lost.
Mickey Dunne and Batt O'Connor - Cobblestone 6-11-2007
Peter Browne - Cobblestone 6-5-2008
Peter Browne & Gerry Harrington - Cobblestone 6-5-2008
Ronan Browne - NPU 23-5-2009
Three airs from Peter Browne on concert pitch pipes