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Richard Lewis O'Mealy, Uilleann pipes: 1943 BBC session

Happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone! Pipers and non pipers alike. Ever since 2022 I started this yearly ritual of uploading an Irish Uilleann piping record or two to Youtube whenever St. Patrick's Day comes around, regardless if my favorite artists upload anything. Since today I basically had all my energy SUCKED OUT OF ME just because of some volunteering that lasted all day, I figured I'd better hurry up with this before the day's actually over! So I'm doing just that. So around the same time I fell in love with Highland piping records, one of the pages that showcases some of these Highland piping records also showcases the first Irish Uilleann pipe recordings as well, and one set of recordings really took me by surprise. These are 10 tracks that the piper and pipemaker Richard Lewis O'Mealy (1873 - 1947) made on August 28, 1943, at the BBC, to showcase his uniquely staccato and upbeat playing. Now, a few things set his pipes apart from most other makes of pipes. Instead of being in the key of D, they're actually pitched in the key of C-sharp. Also, for his "regulators" - that all too fancy organ-like bank of keyed pipes, originally named so because many Uilleann pipers were church organ makers as well - instead of using a tenor, contralto and a mezzo soprano (that's more accurate in terms of what they normally are, clef-wise - rather than tenor/baritone/bass), he used a contralto (C-sharp 4 to A-flat 4), tenor (F-sharp 3 to B 3) and a baritone to change things up a little (F-sharp 3, F 3, E-flat 3 and C-sharp 3). Here are the tracks he recorded.0:00: "O'Mealy's Hornpipe", composed by himself. At 1:25: "Harvest Home", or "The Cork Hornpipe" (notice all the staccato triplets in there!). At 2:37: "The Wheels", a jig, AKA "The Pitchfork". At 3:33: "The Blackbird Set Dance", which sounds very similar to a hornpipe in an odd time signature because the endings don't exactly add up to a 4/4 timing feel. At 5:10: "The Mountains of Pomeroy", which is a slower tune. Notice as he holds two notes an octave apart with the chanter on the upper octave and one of the regulators below, he creates this funny sort of vibrato effect ("Nehnehnehnehneh"), probably by holding the key for the actual note but also tapping a lower key on the regulator to open and close the actual hole for that key, making a vibrato effect. At 6:24: "The Maids at Mournshore", which sounds vaguely similar to a waltz. At 7:33: "The Drops of Brandy", a 9/8 jig .At 8:40: "The Sligo Lasses", which is which is a reel. At 9:53 "Smash the Windows", single jig. And finally, at 10:53: "The Donegal Reel". So I hope you enjoy, and don't you dare be afraid to leave comments! I live for comments, especially since I've actually had a few responses on my videos lately. So again, Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!!!! #RichardOMealy #RichardLewisOmealy #UilleannPipes #Irish #Bagpipes #Drones #Chanter #CorkHornpipe #HarvestHome #SligoLasses #DropsOfBrandy #Pomeroy #SmashTheWindows #1943 #BBC #StPatrick'sDay #SaintPatrick'sDay