Instrument
Bagpipes; Kintail
Joined the band:
1981
Influences:
Jim Ryan, Jr.
Competition status:
Grade 3
Education:
Monmouth University
Profession:
Marketing
Hobbies:
Bagpipes (helloooo?)
Golf
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Pat Ryan started his
bagpiping experience at the age of 10. Or 11. Or 9. It depends on when
you ask him. Definitely before 12, though. The youngest of three
piping brothers (and one drumming brother who can’t go less than 90%),
he’s become widely recognized as the best of the three. A
not-so-accomplished Grade 3 soloist, he has played with the American
Celtic Pipe Band throughout his “career.” Pat became Pipe Sergeant
under his brother, Jim, in 1992. Though efforts to usurp Jim’s
authority and power were remarkably unsuccessful, he eventually rose
to Pipe Major in May of 2002 when Jim moved to Arizona. Pat,
naturally, moved soon after to New Jersey, surrendering his short but
abusive hold on the Pipe Major-ship to past P/M Marty Rowe in December
of that same year. With his return to Long Island, Pat once again
became Pipe Major, with Marty Rowe returning to his role as Pipe
Sergeant. His primary tutelage has come from
his brother Jim, with initial instruction from Donal Morrissey, Sr.
and Neil McPherson. In the summer of 2003, Pat played with the
Mesa Caledonia Pipe Band of Mesa,
Arizona at the World Championships in Grade 3.
Pat lives in Babylon with his wife Michele, son Jake and daughter
Emily.
Pat plays a set of 1978 Kintail bagpipes (stolen from his brother
Jim). |
