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Something VERY different . . .
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What a wonderful sound. Seems hard to march with so large an instrument but he almost broke into a jig with the last of the piece. Now I want to hear the smaller set of pipes behind him on the bench. Thanks for this post.
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Well yes Bill, agreed, it is very, very different! 
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I like it! Of course I couldn't learn to play once chanter, so two would be almost impossible.
Where was that video from?
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 Originally Posted by bdkilted
Where was that video from?
Found it on Youtube via a Facebook friend.
Rev'd Father Bill White: Mostly retired Parish Priest & former Elementary Headmaster. Lover of God, dogs, most people, joy, tradition, humour & clarity. Legion Padre, theologian, teacher, philosopher, linguist, encourager of hearts & souls & a firm believer in dignity, decency, & duty. A proud Canadian Sinclair.
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Another of the many, many bagpipes in the world. I've heard these played in the toe of Italy; to be present in a small open-air space when several are tuning up is beyond description. The drones vibrate your bones 
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Go looking for Bulgarian pipes; and then there's our own and dearly loved Robert Amyott (Auld Alliance) with the French pipes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRbKYvEtOU4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BgnwL-ddvA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ5biPa2IMM
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Wonderful sound...if we could be IN that room with those huge drones - these tiny speaker cones don't give it justice..
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Originally Posted by ThistleDown
Another of the many, many bagpipes in the world. ...
At the Musical Instrument Museum in Scottsdale, AZ I compiled the following list of bagpipes around the world:
Estonia - torupill
Latvia - dudas
Ukraine - duda
Bulgaria - kaba gajda
Russia - shuvyr
Czech (Slovak & Bohemian) - dudy
Slovakia - gajdy
Sweden - sackpipa
Greece - tsambouna
Serbia - gajda
Macedonia - gajda
France(Poitou/charentes) - veuze
France(Bourbonnais) - grande musette
Croatia - pive
Tunisia - zukra
Spain - gaita
Italy - zampogna a chiave
Scotland - a' phiob mhor
Ireland - piobain uillean
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18th May 16, 05:48 PM
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SPS, that list only scratches the surface, as you might well know.
In France alone there are a few hundred different bagpipe species.
About double-chanter bagpipes, like your Zampogna there (the word, by the way, is cognate with "symphony" and means "sounding together") in the old days they were played all over Britain, from Cornwall up into Scotland.
So many carvings of them exist in Cornwall that many have come to think of them as a Cornish thing, but they were played all over Britain. None of the actual instruments survived, but it's clear that they were rather different from the Zampogna of Italy. A number of modern makers have made various reconstructions.
Here's one of the Cornish carvings.
There's an Englishman living in Scotland named Julian Goodacre who makes wonderful reproductions of that instrument. Here he is playing one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl4uQYGfZ5o
I owned a set of those for a while, but I ended up selling them and cobbling together my own version, with Scottish smallpipe chanters. Here is yours truly playing them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4lw8-3Jf9w
One thing we should be careful to not misstate is the "around the world" or "all over the world" stuff. Note the list above covers only one tiny corner of the world. In fact every bagpipe listed is European save for the Tunisian one, separated from Europe by a not-so-huge body of water.
In spite of the oft-repeated nonsense about bagpipes having a "middle Eastern" origin, everything points to them being a European invention.
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