What are these piano giants playing at?
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Nice picture, but not exactly what they’re playing.
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They are playing the reel “The wind that shakes the barley” on Balailikas here is Liam O’Flynn and Tommy Peoples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoRA1PUzzcE
On *balalaikas* (на балалайках).
No idea what all that Russian stuff means, they might be playing the theme from Shaun Davey’s Brendan Voyage, though without Uilleann pipes it would not sound great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWB3tbBZO4k
Regardless of what that piece is, the instrument is called balalaika.