Not your traditional bagpipe tune

[MacKenzie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gupUrQT_q-8

[Kiltedjohn]

Amazing! I wouldn't have thought it possible.

[kilted2000]

From things like this, Ally the Piper for example, has made me realize the bagpipes are a very underused and under appreciated instrument.

[SF Jeff]

When I first started on the practice chanter, I was self taught. Just the Green book and nothing else (there wasn't much in the way of online instruction back then) and so eventually I started doing my own thing, not having the guidance and structure of a teacher or pipe band to save me from myself.

Then one day I played for the PM of a local band who was helping me dial in my PC and when I was done he looked at me wide-eyed and said "you play that thing like a saxaphone!!!"

[OC Richard]

Yes and keep in mind she's not playing a Scottish bagpipe.

It appears to be one of the Low Countries bagpipes, from Belgium and the Netherlands.

These, like the Central French bagpipes, play a chromatic scale of around an octave and a half.

Now, the uilleann pipes, with a 2-octave chromatic range, can take on any genre, jazz, rock, or Baroque.

Here's the brilliant uilleann piper Jerry O Sullivan playing Bach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymufXlTSriY

[PiperPadre]

Yes and keep in mind she's not playing a Scottish bagpipe.

It appears to be one of the Low Countries bagpipes, from Belgium and the Netherlands.

These, like the Central French bagpipes, play a chromatic scale of around an octave and a half.

Now, the uilleann pipes, with a 2-octave chromatic range, can take on any genre, jazz, rock, or Baroque.

Here's the brilliant uilleann piper Jerry O Sullivan playing Bach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymufXlTSriY

Beautiful.

As a piper and Baroque cellist, this speaks to my heart. Thanks for the link, Richard.