Hey Robin, nice story! glad you found us.
I used to listen to Ammons a lot too and Curtis is one of my big heroes
and of course I toured for 2 weeks alongside Bobbie during one of Keith Richard’s tours too!
Sounds like you’re on the right track with the horns etc….good luck!
Wow awesome – I love trad irish music, and being from Down Under, We don’t get a lot here 🙂 in fact, I’m glad to hear that there is sax music for trad irish music, let me know where i can find some! I used to play fiddle but not very well, as my ear isn’t great. Decided the fiddle needs frets. Anyways, welcome to the sax site 🙂
I play tin whistle tunes on the sax sometimes. Only slight difference in fingering (assuming you’re coming from a standard D whistle) is you’re playing in the scale of D, so middle key F sharp on the sax versus third hole up on the whistle.
Hi Jeff, they’re called the uillean (pronounced ‘ill-ian’) pipes. They have a heart-wrenchingly sweet plaintive sound – nothing like the Scottish bagpipes. Here’s a clip for ye: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq3m_R3Lnu4
Hi Robin, thanks for the info. I’m 56 and it’s the first time I’ve seen this instrument. I had always presumed the sound to be a combination of flutes and bagpipes.
Now that I know what to look for I’ve found there are quite a few videos.
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