Comments on: Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a free bagpipe ringtone for your iPhone!

By: Way Cool III

Way Cool III — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:15:42 +0000

Go get ‘em, Patty!

By: Patty O'Furniture

Patty O'Furniture — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:30:21 +0000

I’m off to tell all the thousands of highland pipers, marching in St. Pat’s parades all over the world today that they don’t belong there. While I’m at it, I’ll mention that they must be loyalists, since they’re playing the wrong pipes.

Wish me luck.

By: Grangoire

Grangoire — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:25:38 +0000

@tomzo,
That’s been pointed out already.
It may be easier for you to keep up if you weren’t so focused on your trolling. But if you ARE really just slow, then I apologize.

By: byronchurch

byronchurch — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:34:15 +0000

Catchy tune . Hmmmm …. Da da da da da da da da . Hey its the stock treo ringtone ! They would jam together ! Same key . Same meter . What a trip ! Thanks

By: imajoebob

imajoebob — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:05:48 +0000

Okay, first, bagpipes are neither exclusively Irish or Scottish. There’s an entire catalog of different regional variations across Europe on the basic instrument.

That said, is this guy a dirty fookin’ Loyalist?! A REAL Irishman (i.e. Republican) would be playing the Uilean (pronounced illen) pipes. Besides being sweeter and more musically versatile, the Uilean, unlike the Highland set Mr. McEvoy appears to have, has a manual bellows so you don’t have to continually blow into the damn thing to play it!

The Irish were smart enough to make a smaller, easier to operate, better sounding set of pipes. And you can sit down and talk (or sing) while playing it – and even take a wee drink when the fingering cooperates!

But as a good Irishman, and possible distant relative to the McEvoys, I thank Mr. McEvoy for his creativity and consideration and have a Guinness in his honour. (and then I’ll wait ’til his back is turned…!)

[What's Irish and sits out in the rain?]

By: Steven Haskayne

Steven Haskayne — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:24:23 +0000

Hate to tell you guys but bagpipes are scottish not irish. Guiness, 4 leaf clovers, potatoe pickers and pots of gold however are all Irish…. Not forgetting ma’ lucky charms!

By: Way Cool III

Way Cool III — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:27:05 +0000

McEvoy’s “Minstrel Boy” is subtle, yet at times, overbearing. The man’s a true genius.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:06:29 +0000

There are plenty of Irish bagpipes!

Typically an Irish bagpipe will be powered by bellows tucked under your arm, rather then the inflated bladder which is blown into by the mouth on a Scottish bagpipe.

Come on guys, you’re sat at a computer reading this anyway!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_bagpipes

Mark (England)

By: Dave-O

Dave-O — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:36:26 +0000

@Bob, The Minstrel Boy is an Irish song. The bagpipe is not exclusively Scottish (although it is most strongly affiliated with the Highlands). You’ll hear plenty o’ pipes (and penny whistles) in the St. Patrick’s Day parades.

By: tomzo

tomzo — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:27:06 +0000

erm…. as a brit I was wondering why you’ve got a bagpiper?
St Patrick is the patron Saint of Ireland, and bagpipers are typically Scottish, 2 different countires.
I know you guys over the pond find it hard to understand the whole England Ireland Wales & Scotland and United Kingdom thing, but cmon, really?
“They are not really anything in their native countries”, yeah its pretty big in Ireland, as its their patron saint. Same as St Georges day in England.

But we can all poke fun at the Irish – Only Irish are stupid enough to call their Island Ireland.