This is mainly a tune name request, but does anyone else remember a half hour documentary on pipemaker Eugene Lambe back in the 1980s? I think it was made by RTE "Irish Angle" and broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK. It followed him though the making of a set of pipes and showed him playing with Dan O'Dowd. (Dan O'Dowd was there looking very fierce and Eugene Lambe said something like "he's a lovely man with a great sense of humour when you get to know him.")
EL was still using ivory on pipes in those days!
Anyway, there was a air played several times in the background and I've never been able to find the name of it.
(abc googles etc haven't found anything)
Beginning something like:-
X: 1
T: From Eugene Lambe TV prog
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
D2|G3BA2GF|G3FD2Bc|d3B AGAB|c2
It looks to me like a version of the beginning of the tune "The Verdant Braes Of Skreen", a song famously recorded by the McPeake family of Northern Ireland and I expect by other people.
I spent a surreal afternoon with Eugene a few years ago..He has a wild bird for a pet in his workshop that will land on his finger and eat cookies out of his mouth...
He knows every tune ever played...
Oh... and he was building a ship in his backyard garden...
You could make another 2 hr documentary about Eugene and it wouldn't have to have anything to do with pipes or music...
One of the best days of my life!!!
I have one of his flutes...And I can say I play it at least once a week...
The program was in the series 'Hands' which has been digitally restored by RTE. it has been broadcast a couple of times over the past few years.
What struck me most after seeing it again after all those years was how Ireland has changed, I was at the schoolhouse in Fanore a couple of times around the time the film was made so it made me feel older.
Eugene Lambe pipemaking documentary
Eugene Lambe pipemaking documentary
This is mainly a tune name request, but does anyone else remember a half hour documentary on pipemaker Eugene Lambe back in the 1980s? I think it was made by RTE "Irish Angle" and broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK. It followed him though the making of a set of pipes and showed him playing with Dan O'Dowd. (Dan O'Dowd was there looking very fierce and Eugene Lambe said something like "he's a lovely man with a great sense of humour when you get to know him.")
EL was still using ivory on pipes in those days!
Anyway, there was a air played several times in the background and I've never been able to find the name of it.
(abc googles etc haven't found anything)
Beginning something like:-
X: 1
T: From Eugene Lambe TV prog
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
D2|G3BA2GF|G3FD2Bc|d3B AGAB|c2
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by TomB-R
Re: Eugene Lambe pipemaking documentary
It looks to me like a version of the beginning of the tune "The Verdant Braes Of Skreen", a song famously recorded by the McPeake family of Northern Ireland and I expect by other people.
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by nicholas
Re: Eugene Lambe pipemaking documentary
That's the one. Very many thanks.
Anyone else remember the programme?
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by TomB-R
Re: Eugene Lambe pipemaking documentary
I spent a surreal afternoon with Eugene a few years ago..He has a wild bird for a pet in his workshop that will land on his finger and eat cookies out of his mouth...
He knows every tune ever played...
Oh... and he was building a ship in his backyard garden...
You could make another 2 hr documentary about Eugene and it wouldn't have to have anything to do with pipes or music...
One of the best days of my life!!!
I have one of his flutes...And I can say I play it at least once a week...
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by lamh trom
Re: Eugene Lambe pipemaking documentary
The program was in the series 'Hands' which has been digitally restored by RTE. it has been broadcast a couple of times over the past few years.
What struck me most after seeing it again after all those years was how Ireland has changed, I was at the schoolhouse in Fanore a couple of times around the time the film was made so it made me feel older.
# Posted on September 7th 2007 by kilfarboy