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No good reason for publishing this, but I have been listening to part of my collection of Medieval and renaissance music CDs including a wonderful set of bagpipe pieces by three groups specializing in early music: Piffaro out of Philadelphia, Ciramella from USC in LA, and our local Folger Consort.
The bagpipes were once a staple of European music from Spain and Portugal to at least as far east as Poland at a time when there was less distinction between popular music and "cultivated tastes." With the "sophistication" of the modern era, the pipes have been driven away from all but occasional folk music performances and now are mostly relegated to folk music on the western fringes of Europe - especially Galicia in Spain, Ireland and Scotland. The gradual abandonment of the bagpipe in European music would be a fascinating study of "modernization." Alas, I am ill equipped to research or write it, and I am nor really aware of anyone who might.
This is one of my favourite pieces, 'The Gravedigger's Suite'. Natural C and F to give it a darker feel and played on Smallpipes in the key of A. From 'Off the Beat 'n Track' by the Lonely Busker
Here’s the punk bagpiper from last night’s stream. Heavily inspired by The Snake Charmer Bagpiper, Archy J. I’ll be sure to give her a tag once this is coloured.
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in Honor of the Fallen by Darlisa Black
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Memorial Weekend is here again, and I remembered this photo from 7 years ago. Bagpiper Bill Shelton played at our local Memorial Day ceremony in May of 2015, in White Salmon, Washington. Located in the cemetery at the Walk of Honor, we had this view of Mount Hood. The ceremony was very beautiful.
This year the ceremony is Monday May 30th.
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It's a timeless symphony, connecting past and present, inviting the world to embrace the rich heritage of Scotland. For in the hands of the Bagpiper, history dances to the soul's music.
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Medals dirks and sgian dhus won by Pipe Major George Stewart McLennan.
McLennan was born at St Leonards on the south side of Edinburgh, his heritage included a fine line of pipers. It's remarkable he made a career in the Gordon Highlanders as he had polio as a young child and couldnt walk until he was four and a half.
McLennan began receiving piping tuition from his father at the age of four, and later received tuition from his uncle Pipe Major John Stewart, and in Highland dancing from his cousin William McLennan. He made rapid progression, winning the Amateur National Championship at the age of nine, and was invited by Queen Victoria to play for her at Balmoral Castle.[
His father enlisted him in the Gordon Highlanders in October 1899 in order to prevent him from joining the Merchant Navy, and he became Pipe major of the 1st Battalion in 1905, one of the youngest ever in the Army.
McLennan was posted at the depot in Aberdeen until 1918, when he was sent to the Western Front to succeed Pipe Major Tom Henderson who had been killed. In May 1918 he collapsed and required fluid to be drained from his lungs in a field hospital.[4] When the war ended he was posted back to Aberdeen, and after he was discharged in 1922 he started working in Aberdeen as a bagpipe maker, at a shop at 2 Bath Street.
He died in May 1929 aged just 46, of lung cancer after a long period of ill health connected to the makeshift operation.
A remarkable 20,000 people lined the route of the procession to Aberdeen station at his funeral on 4 June, before he was interred at Newington Cemetery in Edinburgh.
Pipe Major George SMcLennan also wote many tunes for the bagpipes, some still popular today.
The pics are from a visit to the National War Museum in Edinburgh Castle last week.
"Zampogna… is a generic term for a number of Italian double chantered bagpipes… The tradition is now mostly associated with Christmas, and the most famous Italian carol, "Tu scendi dalle stelle" (You Come Down From the Stars) is derived from traditional zampogna music." - Zampogna
There's nothing wrong with bagpipes unless you can't play them right.
That's like claiming you don't enjoy catching people singing karaoke at bars. I feel you on this one even though my classmates and I had to try it once when we met up at Japantown in San Francisco. None of us have a good vocals for singing tunes, but we were there just for fun.
Hanging out away from our work at the university brought us some much needed relief.
Back to the bagpipes, they're something I grew up hearing at school because it was attached to church and we had some Scottish students. The cemetery city wasn't far from us either.
Don't believe me? Wyatt Earps ashes are burried at one.
Swinging back to bagpipes:
They're things I regularly heard in primary school during funerals in the adjacent church. Surprised I never tried to study it to maybe help out ppl having services in the cemetery I always visited to talk with 🦆s.
No worries, I highly doubt my skills could've hit to this man's level.