Thursday, 10 October 2013

Tommy Makem, 1954


      Found this great photo on Tommy Makem and the Clancy's website. In the photo Tommy is playing piccolo, Jack Makem on pipes, and Peter Makem on fiddle.


1 comment:

  1. The liner notes to that album state that Tommy Makem was playing a "tin whistle" in the last set (Girl I Left Behind Me/Rakes of Mallow), but listening to it it definitely sounds like a piccolo. I wonder how many written mentions of "whistles" or "flutes" actually reference a piccolo/fife.

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