Originally Posted by
California Highlander
This clip has been making the rounds of all the Scottish themed Facebook groups...
Which is odd in a way because it doesn't have anything to do with anything Scottish (or Irish or Celtic).
She's playing "Continental" pipes, the sort that survives in Limousin and Auvergne and has been revived in the Low Countries and also in Germany to some extent.
The Central French chanter can jump the octave, giving usually around an octave and a half, and can give chromatic notes through crossfingering.
In short, the Limousin/Auvergne/Belgian/Continental chanter has more musical possibilities than the Scottish Highland chanter, as can be seen there.
Here's the indigenous music for those bagpipes. Playing Scottish music on them would be just as alien as playing jazz, perhaps more so!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tKnO66Bx10
Last edited by OC Richard; 24th November 20 at 05:29 AM.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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