Amazing Grace

**Ancienne Alliance** · 19th March 08, 05:11 AM

Originally Posted by Justinb1234

Hey,

That's amazing !!

Thanks for share music with me.
I really enjoy it

Happy you enjoyed it ! and...

**David Dalglish** · 19th March 08, 01:14 PM

I thought it was Rubbish--A great tune ruined.

**Ancienne Alliance** · 19th March 08, 03:23 PM

Originally Posted by David Dalglish

I thought it was Rubbish--A great tune ruined.

Ah !!!! Finally the typical reaction I was waiting for !
Pour your hearts out lads !

I just thought the fenomenon interesting and wanted to share it.
Next time I'll want to share something more "classic", I promise.
But nevertheless, I dig all the different opinions. It shows that piping, like food, like, perhaps, ...kilts , bring about extreme reactions.

Fascinating.

**northernsky** · 19th March 08, 03:26 PM

I enjoyed immensely. Like it or not, it took great skill and finesse. Neither of which I have...

**Draelore** · 19th March 08, 03:54 PM

I'm with the appreciated the talent but did not care for the music crowd

**wgority** · 19th March 08, 04:39 PM

Originally Posted by Ancienne Alliance

Hi steve,

It's not a cornemuse.
I would think it something more like Flemmish Pipes or some kind of Dudelsack. Jean Blanchard says they're probably Border Pipes, but I think the tenor drone stock is to far to the rear for it to be so.

Slàinte madh,
Robert

Robert,

My thought is that they are quite similar to the student pipes made by a number of people such as Franz Hattink, Jon Swayne and Sean Jones. It could have been made by any one of them, or at least 3 others I can recall. All of the pipes of this type (at least in my experience) are based around the central French musette chanter and tend to be in the key of G. They usually only have a single bass drone pitched an octave below the bottom fundamental note of the chanter.

Bill

Bill

**JerseyLawyer** · 19th March 08, 05:11 PM

I think it's quite interesting. Not my cup of tea, really, but I appreciate the musicality of it. The comments, of course, are amusing as well, though not in a good way. This, for example:

This should be made compulsory viewing/listening for all Scottish bagpipe players who seem to be proud of an ability to play their national instrument with no rhythm or soul.

I'd almost like to send him a copy of Shott's "By the Water's Edge" or some other 'good' CD, so that he can hear what real piping sounds like.

Some bands - pipe bands, that is - have been playing Amazing Grace as a 4/4 march. I think it's been replaced now as the flavor de jour with "Dawning of the Day". ;)

**The Ulsterman** · 19th March 08, 05:13 PM

That was certainly different

.......................kinda like Jim Motherwell meets Jimi Hendrix.

Neil.

**beloitpiper** · 19th March 08, 06:37 PM

She's talented, but I enjoy neither the song nor the rendition.

**Ancienne Alliance** · 20th March 08, 01:10 AM

Originally Posted by wgority

Robert,

My thought is that they are quite similar to the student pipes made by a number of people such as Franz Hattink, Jon Swayne and Sean Jones. It could have been made by any one of them, or at least 3 others I can recall. All of the pipes of this type (at least in my experience) are based around the central French musette chanter and tend to be in the key of G. They usually only have a single bass drone pitched an octave below the bottom fundamental note of the chanter.

Bill

Bill

Thank you Bill.
Jon is an old friend. I know his pipes well. We played togetter many a time .
I met Franz Hattink . I'm not sure for Sean Jones. How old is Sean ?