Various members including Leslie Wilson and Ross Kennedy of the Tannahill Weavers have been playing bass pedals while playing guitar or bouzouki for the band for decades - they don't have a bass player in the group. Having said that, their music does not require a traditional bass player anyway - he mostly supports the bagpiper's drone or handles modulations which the pipes can't play - but the effect is to make them sound more "rocky" than most folk ensembles - anyone who has seen them live would certainly attest to their hefty sound. I first noticed Kennedy playing bass pedals at a gig at the old Bottom Line in New York about 25 years ago.
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