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Here ya go guys. Take it here.
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Ups ... sorry ... I thought it was the banjo bashing thread ... I'm off again then ... :icon_jokercolor:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_Harley
studied under the Maestro Sandole and met this man, a fellow student, though he was far advanced in age and ability...a gracious, soft=spoken and inspiring fellow, not to mention a world class musician...listen to him and try to bash 'pipes
studied under the Maestro Sandole and met this man, a fellow student, though he was far advanced in age and ability...a gracious, soft=spoken and inspiring fellow, not to mention a world class musician...listen to him and try to bash 'pipes
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The best bagpipe reference I think I heard of came from Robin Williams, when he was talking about the Scotish site of his family, and the resourcefulness the Scots have. If I remember right, he asked, "who else could have seen a dead cat and thought 'Hey--put a hose in its ass and keep ''em blowin!'"
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i4ib77GaV0[/youtube]
Watch at about the 6 1/2 minute mark...
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i4ib77GaV0[/youtube]
Watch at about the 6 1/2 minute mark...
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Bagpipes, what's the point? You can get better tone and more satisfaction slowly crushing/strangling small rodents that some people consider dogs, or many cat species for the higher notes..
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SustainerPlayer said:
why did the musician throw the banjo into a dumpster? to crush the bagpipes he's thrown in seconds before.
What's the difference between bagpipes and onions? Nobody cries when you cut up bagpipes.
what's the difference between a dead snake in the road and a dead piper? skid marks in front of the snake.
how can you tell when a bagpipe is out of tune? someone is blowing in it.
I cant be bother writting anymore about bagpipes so i'll repost my other statement. Also when it comes to any kind of bagpipe the Uilleann pipes own.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr4IQNn3AsA
Bagpipes should be thrown in a sack and burnt. Every day in Edinburgh there is a piper on the streets playing the same damn tunes over and over. Out of the thousands of tunes that exist it's always the same 5 songs. Highland cathedral. Sky Boat Song. Great for tourists who have never seen or heard bagpipes in real life, But for the majority of people who live their it's just a major pain in the ass.
Good thing I don't live there, it's just pain in the arse when there is plenty of GREAT Scottish country music that doesn't involve the bagpipes but they exist because it's what people think of when they mention Scotland, that and kilts. Not everyone plays the bagpipes and not everyone wears a kilt. I remember being at a folk festival in a place called Auchtermuchty, heavy night of drinking round a camp-fire playing gold old fashion folk music, 5am the sun starts to rise and everyone passes out. 5.05am a piper decides to do a sunrise special. the only thing that could be heard over the top of it was the delightful phrase, "f**k off."
Seriously though, in Edinburgh during the tourist months every street has some arse dressed like this playing the bagpipes. That is why I rarely go the Edinburgh anymore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr4IQNn3AsA
Bagpipes should be thrown in a sack and burnt. Every day in Edinburgh there is a piper on the streets playing the same damn tunes over and over. Out of the thousands of tunes that exist it's always the same 5 songs. Highland cathedral. Sky Boat Song. Great for tourists who have never seen or heard bagpipes in real life, But for the majority of people who live their it's just a major pain in the ass.
Good thing I don't live there, it's just pain in the arse when there is plenty of GREAT Scottish country music that doesn't involve the bagpipes but they exist because it's what people think of when they mention Scotland, that and kilts. Not everyone plays the bagpipes and not everyone wears a kilt. I remember being at a folk festival in a place called Auchtermuchty, heavy night of drinking round a camp-fire playing gold old fashion folk music, 5am the sun starts to rise and everyone passes out. 5.05am a piper decides to do a sunrise special. the only thing that could be heard over the top of it was the delightful phrase, "f**k off."
Seriously though, in Edinburgh during the tourist months every street has some arse dressed like this playing the bagpipes. That is why I rarely go the Edinburgh anymore.
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Seriously, I appreciate the attachment to the celtic peoples of this instrument (and I'm a very distant member of the Macdonald Clan of Inverness myself) but I have always not liked the instrument for its' weird scaling. To my ears it just sounds out of tune. I remember when I was a kid learning to play clarinet and thought I had lungs of iron, then someone told me about the Double Bassoon - a double reeded instrument of huge proportions. Then the wood wind teacher said in hushed tone, worse still there's the bagpipes. Apparently very hard to play. OK so I dig the effort put into playing them and it's cultural place with all things Scottish and Celtic (btw, the celts did other types of bagpipes too, there's an Iberian one and an Irish one I believe, both have different ways of inflating the air bag), but with it's tuning it is always going to be difficult to mix in with modern instruments.
Anecdotally, I have stood next to a bagpiper at a football match and that was an experience not to repeat, f'ing loud! And I have heard the story of the late Queen Mother (Queen Elizabeth's mum) having a long standing request to be awoken every morning while at her Balmoral Estate to the strains of a bagpiper past her bedroom, which brought some groans from her guests who had inbibed with the Queen Mum the night before on some very fine gin, and who were trying to sleep off a hangover in nearby bedrooms. :help:
I think in circumstances like the hungover morning after, there's a case for a "scottish defense" for murder of one bagpiper, kinda like Dangerous' Texan alibi..... :icon_jokercolor:
Anecdotally, I have stood next to a bagpiper at a football match and that was an experience not to repeat, f'ing loud! And I have heard the story of the late Queen Mother (Queen Elizabeth's mum) having a long standing request to be awoken every morning while at her Balmoral Estate to the strains of a bagpiper past her bedroom, which brought some groans from her guests who had inbibed with the Queen Mum the night before on some very fine gin, and who were trying to sleep off a hangover in nearby bedrooms. :help:
I think in circumstances like the hungover morning after, there's a case for a "scottish defense" for murder of one bagpiper, kinda like Dangerous' Texan alibi..... :icon_jokercolor:
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Screw that - bagpipes FTW.
Steve_Karl
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What's the definition of perfect pitch?
When you throw the bagpipes in the dumpster and hit the banjo.
When you throw the bagpipes in the dumpster and hit the banjo.
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I can say this, I never really appreciated Bagpipes until I sat down and listened to them, I mean really listened. Before that I was anoyed with them.
However once I discovered the beauty in them, I now have bought quite a few Cds of them, doing mainly traditional Celtic music.
I guess it is just a acquired taste. And something you cannot explain, like why I will take a 1967 Jeep CJ and pour 10 grand into it without ever touching the body or paint.
However once I discovered the beauty in them, I now have bought quite a few Cds of them, doing mainly traditional Celtic music.
I guess it is just a acquired taste. And something you cannot explain, like why I will take a 1967 Jeep CJ and pour 10 grand into it without ever touching the body or paint.
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Tempest - I just created the thread so people would quit using my thread for bagpipe bashing, instead of talking about brass in hard rock bands. (BTW If you google hard rock horns, all you get is :headbang1: ) I'm kinda indifferent to bagpipes, but they're not brass, and even though I guess its a woodwind, it's not a 'horn'.
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