Jazzy bagpipes (no kilts in sight)

[OC Richard]

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

[Steelkilt]

I didn’t know there was an instrument resembling the bagpipes, thank you! How are these pipes fed (I didn’t see him blowing or any other manual inflation)?

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

[imrichmond]

I didn’t know there was an instrument resembling the bagpipes, thank you! How are these pipes fed (I didn’t see him blowing or any other manual inflation)?

Bellows operated by his right arm. You can see the right arm movement quite clearly in the video. This is very common with all types of smallpipes.

[Joshua]

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.

They look quite similar to Bulgarian bagpipes called "gaida" (or a close approximation depending on where they are from), which you see in parts of Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, and Greece... except the most common are very simple compared to highland pipes with just a small drone. One of my friends plays and has three sets of pipes, two have a very small drone and the third is very similar to the one she is using in the OP's video. This is likely in appearance only, I don't remember seeing so many holes in his chanter and the sounds it makes is markedly more "Eastern" sounding.