Bagpipes

[beloitpiper]

Yeah, I hate bagpipes.....

[The Celtic Gypsy]

Nah - it's not genetic. My father who was as German as they come (he wore lieder hosen) loved the pipes. He always told my adopted sister, who is a top-notch player, that she was going to play at his funeral, piping him into church for the final time. She said it was the hardest thing she ever had to do, but the pipes had the clearest, sweetest sound, with a bit of the sadness of loss. Dad would have loved it! Prost!

[Wompet]

Check this out - there are thirty pages each with a different bagpipe from around the world!

http://www.hotpipes.com/pipe0001.html


Brian

I have the album. Every once in a while, when someone at work rags on me on learning to play "that gadawfhul instrument," and they don't have to like pipes because they're [insert nationality here], I pull out that CD and say, "But pipes are [insert same nationality here]! How can you not like your own music?"
That usually quiets them down for a few months.

[MadBagpiper]

I really love solo bagpipes, and pipes accompanying other instruments or singers, but massed pipe bands . . . not so much.

Best regards,

Jake

I like massed pipe bands when there's more then 8 bands (i.e. Loch Norman Games always has an incredible massed bands.) For those standing out of the center of 300+ pipers, it is loud. When you stand where I normally stand which is of course in the center and surrounded on all sides by pipers, it is enveloping.
The sound of the drones almost holds you in a sense.

[Frank McGrath]

The pipes drew me to kilts

[ccga3359]

I'm probably supposed to hate pipes by virtue of my birth but I don't. Played well, aside from the piano, it's the only instrument that can bring tears to my eyes (in the good sense).

[mexpiper]

As a wee one I had always hated parades for the marching bands and the drummers... But come bagpipers and their drummers I was like in heaven. I actually liked bagpipers .. and now have become a Kilter. I will never be a bagpiper.. but a kilter forever...

ps. I gave up my bagpipe lesson due to carpal tunnel things...

[Jimmy Carbomb]

As one of the very few Uilleann and Ceilidh pipe players around here, I'll just say that it's a "yes". But like so many others, I'm pretty tired of the large, blaring bands. Perhaps that's just a reaction from playing so many festivals where "Scotland the Brave" and "Amazing Grace" are repeated hundreds of times. With all due respect to the songs and their heritage... there's only so many times that you can hear them done until you're just BEGGING for something "outside the box".

[Sean_the_Kilted]

Check this out - there are thirty pages each with a different bagpipe from around the world!

http://www.hotpipes.com/pipe0001.html


Brian

neat page, I wasn't aware that there were bagpipes in countries other than the british isles. Is that cd any good?

[Jerry]

I've enjoyed the sound of the pipes for as long as I can remember. I only discovered the piercing quality of bagpipes recently when I pulled up beside one of those "pimpmobiles", at a stoplight, with the roof pulsing from the loud and obnoxious rap music he was blasting for everyone in the next state to have to hear. I cranked up the bagpipe music I was playing on my CD player, and he rolled up the window. My radio did not have a big power amp like he did, but it did have "power pipes" on the CD.