Originally Posted by
OC Richard
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.
Last edited by Joshua; 2nd December 20 at 01:51 PM.
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