Greater Rochester Emerald Society

There’s a group of us trying to put together an Irish Pipe Band in Rochester.

We are looking to get member representatives from as many of the Irish affiliated groups in Rochester as possible. That way it is truly a “Rochester Irish Community” joint effort, that can be used by all of our Irish groups. If any of you are interested in learning to play the bagpipes and would like to join us — Please see Pat Reilly’s note below.

Thanks,
Rick Faro

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Sent: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 6:13 pm
Subject: Bagpipe practice

Hello all,

Great news, the time is now to get started!

Johnny has agree to let us use the “red room” on Sunday’s from 2-4pm for our bagpipe practice. I propose we start on Sunday 2/15. We will start with lessons for those just starting out, then afterwards go over tunes with folks already playing.

If you do not yet have a practice chanter, see below on my advise on getting one. I will bring copies of music and lesson materials for everyone. There is a bagpipe shop in Buffalo called the British shop, but his prices tend to be high so unless you really need to go somewhere to get something I normally just use the internet. http://www.hendersongroupltd.com/Cart/pc/viewcategories.asp?idCategory=220 is one of the places I use on the Internet and they are good, and they are reasonably priced on practice chanters.

You should get a Long Poly practice chanter. I use the Dunbar Long chanter (and also play Dunbar Pipes which I am a fan of for the price), but I am sure the McCallum long on this page is also fine and is quite a bit cheaper. Personally I do not think the $100 and up ones are worth the extra money, but some other people do.

I know there are a lot of other folks out there we have talked about this with, so please forward this note to anyone else you think may be interested.

Thank you and call with any questions,
Pat Reilly
381-4936

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