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.

[OC Richard]

Beautiful.

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

You're welcome!

As you probably know, the same family of French court musicians that developed the Baroque flute, clarinet, and oboe also developed a Baroque bagpipe specifically designed to play the art-music of the time.

It was called the Musette de Cour (Bagpipe of the Court) and was quite popular for a period.

When dynamics became important fixed-volume instruments such as the recorder and musette were phased out.

Anyhow one of the best pieces composed for the Musette de Cour is this one, by Nicolas Chedeville

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc9wFPbB3-0

Now, this recording has a string instrument doing the brilliantly written bass part. However my favourite recording has a Bassoon doing the bass line, which is really cool because both the bagpipe and bassoon are double-reeds, and IMHO the bass line comes out more dramatically.

[OC Richard]

By the way, here's the Flemish pipes used for Flemish traditional music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQHwnJLBDQ8&t=60s

(This is the sort of pipes the woman is using for jazz.)