#bagpipes — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bagpipes, aggregated by home.social.
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#music #radio #zoo #bagpipes #celtic
Part 1 of 4 | Celtic Bagpipe Music Compilation: https://youtu.be/zmwoeBJpcDsВ нас ця природня музика звучить в студії дуже часто: https://cutt.ly/yyynJ15K
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#music #radio #zoo #bagpipes #celtic
Part 1 of 4 | Celtic Bagpipe Music Compilation: https://youtu.be/zmwoeBJpcDsВ нас ця природня музика звучить в студії дуже часто: https://cutt.ly/yyynJ15K
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Design events with an overall structure in mind — and where you and the participants are open to the unexpected
#meetings #EventDesign #impromptu #serendipity #bagpipes #events #eventprofs
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Design events with an overall structure in mind — and where you and the participants are open to the unexpected
#meetings #EventDesign #impromptu #serendipity #bagpipes #events #eventprofs
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The Bagpiper’s Endless Quest for a Place to Practice.
A tour of New York’s cemeteries, toxic canals and industrial zones where a great Highland bagpipe can drone in peace.
“Any piper who lives in this city is eventually going to find a spot where nobody’s going to chase them off”
https://archive.ph/VxfFD #globalmuseum #NewYork #bagpipes -
The Bagpiper’s Endless Quest for a Place to Practice.
A tour of New York’s cemeteries, toxic canals and industrial zones where a great Highland bagpipe can drone in peace.
“Any piper who lives in this city is eventually going to find a spot where nobody’s going to chase them off”
https://archive.ph/VxfFD #globalmuseum #NewYork #bagpipes -
One day before an assessment of my bagpipe performance skills and theory knowledge (a prerequisite for teaching certification) and I am going full-on AuDHD.
PDA
Rehearsing failure
Mono-focusing
Being grumpy and annoyed at my utterly innocent and thoughtful partner for things I normally love him for.
Shallow breathing, upset stomach, hyper-arousal of all senses (tried to eat one of my favourite meals today and the smell of the pre-cooked ingredients made me almost vomit), inability to relax…I want it to be over NOW.
Then after the exam, I’ll be fine, I will miss the hyper-focus time, I will start thinking about what I can do NEXT that will be complex, intense, and challenging, and I will be full of energy.
Did I mention this is the last commitment I made before having a silent heart attack? I have declared my retirement, started the admin to close my business, and I don’t know if I will actually want to teach.
But I have been working toward this milestone for 2.5 years, through medical diagnoses, business insanity, and the *waves hands* state of the world. I just want to get it finished and be able to say I saw it through and did my best. It’s honestly the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Bagpipes are the most bonkers complex instrument to learn to play if you actually want to learn all about them.
So when I’m done, tomorrow at noon my time, I’m gonna be pretty pleased with myself. And exhausted. And feeling free for the first time in decades.
But right now I’m just not fun to be around. Especially to myself. Ugh.
Kudos to all my neurokin for finishing really difficult things you start.
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One day before an assessment of my bagpipe performance skills and theory knowledge (a prerequisite for teaching certification) and I am going full-on AuDHD.
PDA
Rehearsing failure
Mono-focusing
Being grumpy and annoyed at my utterly innocent and thoughtful partner for things I normally love him for.
Shallow breathing, upset stomach, hyper-arousal of all senses (tried to eat one of my favourite meals today and the smell of the pre-cooked ingredients made me almost vomit), inability to relax…I want it to be over NOW.
Then after the exam, I’ll be fine, I will miss the hyper-focus time, I will start thinking about what I can do NEXT that will be complex, intense, and challenging, and I will be full of energy.
Did I mention this is the last commitment I made before having a silent heart attack? I have declared my retirement, started the admin to close my business, and I don’t know if I will actually want to teach.
But I have been working toward this milestone for 2.5 years, through medical diagnoses, business insanity, and the *waves hands* state of the world. I just want to get it finished and be able to say I saw it through and did my best. It’s honestly the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Bagpipes are the most bonkers complex instrument to learn to play if you actually want to learn all about them.
So when I’m done, tomorrow at noon my time, I’m gonna be pretty pleased with myself. And exhausted. And feeling free for the first time in decades.
But right now I’m just not fun to be around. Especially to myself. Ugh.
Kudos to all my neurokin for finishing really difficult things you start.
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Portugeuse bagpipe player at the Carnivale
https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/55414520560/in/photostream/lightbox/I thought from the sound of it he was going to play the theme from Xena, for a moment!
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#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #StreetPhotography #music #musique #EdinburghJazzAndBlueFestival #Carnivale #PrincesStreetGardens #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Bagpipes
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Portugeuse bagpipe player at the Carnivale
https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/55414520560/in/photostream/lightbox/I thought from the sound of it he was going to play the theme from Xena, for a moment!
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#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #StreetPhotography #music #musique #EdinburghJazzAndBlueFestival #Carnivale #PrincesStreetGardens #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Bagpipes
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See at least two #Accordion acts at the #VancouverFolkFestival this weekend ❤️🔥🪗
Yagódy is five women from #Ukraine 🇺🇦
La Déferlance are a hot trad band from Quebec City 🎻 🪗
Also appearing from Scotland in #bagpipes solidarity Brìghde Chaimbeul! 🤩
We previewed them all on this week’s @accordionnoir show. Listen here:
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/07/16/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2026-07-15-le-deferlance-and-yagody-at-the-folk-fest/
#FolkMusic #VancouverAlso features an interlude of tunes about #Wildfires because we need to stop burning the sky up eh? ❤️🔥🪗
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See at least two #Accordion acts at the #VancouverFolkFestival this weekend ❤️🔥🪗
Yagódy is five women from #Ukraine 🇺🇦
La Déferlance are a hot trad band from Quebec City 🎻 🪗
Also appearing from Scotland in #bagpipes solidarity Brìghde Chaimbeul! 🤩
We previewed them all on this week’s @accordionnoir show. Listen here:
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/07/16/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2026-07-15-le-deferlance-and-yagody-at-the-folk-fest/
#FolkMusic #VancouverAlso features an interlude of tunes about #Wildfires because we need to stop burning the sky up eh? ❤️🔥🪗
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Il est là !
Nouvel album de Cadène !
Apéro-concert au Son Continu près de #LaChâtre (36) ce dimanche à 13h pour fêter ça 🙂
#balfolk #folk #accordeon #violon #cornemuse #cistre #accordion #fiddle #bagpipes #cittern -
Il est là !
Nouvel album de Cadène !
Apéro-concert au Son Continu près de #LaChâtre (36) ce dimanche à 13h pour fêter ça 🙂
#balfolk #folk #accordeon #violon #cornemuse #cistre #accordion #fiddle #bagpipes #cittern -
Played The Taking of Beaumont-Hamel on my pipes for Canada Day / Memorial Day. Lest we forget.
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Played The Taking of Beaumont-Hamel on my pipes for Canada Day / Memorial Day. Lest we forget.
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Wee reminder at #Perth #Scotland - The #European #bagpipe championships kicks off Saturday - with a massive pipe band march through the city on Sunday. #bagpipes to the fore. #music #kilts #drums good spirits and bonhomie and the only thing missing is the #TartanArmy - alas off in #boston.
https://visitperthshire.co.uk/perthshire/events/european-pipe-band-championships -
Wee reminder at #Perth #Scotland - The #European #bagpipe championships kicks off Saturday - with a massive pipe band march through the city on Sunday. #bagpipes to the fore. #music #kilts #drums good spirits and bonhomie and the only thing missing is the #TartanArmy - alas off in #boston.
https://visitperthshire.co.uk/perthshire/events/european-pipe-band-championships -
Taken this day, 2011, nothing to see here, just a man on stilts, playing the bagpipes on the Royal Mile!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/5978380179/in/photostream/lightbox/#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #StreetPhotography #music #musique #bagpipes #RoyalMile #Busker #BlackAndWhitePhotography
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Taken this day, 2011, nothing to see here, just a man on stilts, playing the bagpipes on the Royal Mile!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/5978380179/in/photostream/lightbox/#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #StreetPhotography #music #musique #bagpipes #RoyalMile #Busker #BlackAndWhitePhotography
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🏴 Alaska Scottish Highland Games (June 27–28)
Kilts are swinging, bagpipes are loud, and someone is absolutely throwing something very heavy on purpose.
💪 Welcome to one of Alaska’s most iconic summer traditions, where strength, culture, and pure spectacle collide.
🏴 https://shorturl.at/hdwxv
#HighlandGames #AlaskaEvents #Bagpipes #CelticCulture #SummerInAlaska #KiltLife #Travel #Discovery 🥃🏴 -
🏴 Alaska Scottish Highland Games (June 27–28)
Kilts are swinging, bagpipes are loud, and someone is absolutely throwing something very heavy on purpose.
💪 Welcome to one of Alaska’s most iconic summer traditions, where strength, culture, and pure spectacle collide.
🏴 https://shorturl.at/hdwxv
#HighlandGames #AlaskaEvents #Bagpipes #CelticCulture #SummerInAlaska #KiltLife #Travel #Discovery 🥃🏴 -
#Bagpipes and other bladder+pipes/flutes are a way to get the outcome of #circularbreathing without passing out several times a night?
Asking for a friend with new #wind #instruments
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#Bagpipes and other bladder+pipes/flutes are a way to get the outcome of #circularbreathing without passing out several times a night?
Asking for a friend with new #wind #instruments
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Bagpiper inspiring a charge, WW1 (Cyrus Cuneo)
https://piefed.social/c/historyart/p/2063164/bagpiper-inspiring-a-charge-ww1-cyrus-cuneo
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Bagpiper inspiring a charge, WW1 (Cyrus Cuneo)
https://piefed.social/c/historyart/p/2063164/bagpiper-inspiring-a-charge-ww1-cyrus-cuneo
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Branches
- my musical ode to the bagpipes -
(yes, I actually love these instruments!)
#NowPlaying #Bagpipes
https://muz4now.com/2018/branches-nowplaying/ -
Branches
- my musical ode to the bagpipes -
(yes, I actually love these instruments!)
#NowPlaying #Bagpipes
https://muz4now.com/2018/branches-nowplaying/ -
Design events with an overall structure in mind — and where you and the participants are open to the unexpected
#meetings #EventDesign #impromptu #serendipity #bagpipes #events #eventprofs
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Design events with an overall structure in mind — and where you and the participants are open to the unexpected
#meetings #EventDesign #impromptu #serendipity #bagpipes #events #eventprofs
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En ik mis het om af en toe “bravo” en “alore” te horen en dat heerlijke Engels met een Italiaans accent ;)
En m’n medemuzikanten 💛
Voor iedereen die folk speelt; kom vooral volgend voorjaar!
https://draailier-doedelzak.nl/
#folk #hurdygurdy
#doedelzak
#bourdon #bagpipes
#accordeondiatonique
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On a recent trip, I played my pipes on a BC beach. A woman watched and asked me to play Scotland the Brave. She said her late husband’s father played the pipes in the Australian armed forces in the Second World War, and her husband always hummed the tune in memory of his Dad.
When people ask for specific tunes, or tell me personal stories like this, I realize what an honour it is to be a culture bearer for this tradition. Funerals, weddings, honouring those who have died for others, leading people in parades that celebrate an event or community, or just playing fun tunes to lift people’s spirits; the pipes are iconic and important in ways no other instrument is.
The commitment is to make the music for the pleasure of others, and that means playing well. Playing well is not easy and takes years of hard practice to be even minimally competent, because it’s such a complex instrument. There is no equivalent to a guitar-player’s 3-chord folk song on the pipes. Cue the scene from Friends.
The instrument is a crazy system of reeds, tubes, string, and air, all of which must be controlled and each part of which can stop behaving optimally without warning, and often all at the same time. Pipers have to be knowledgeable about the effects of humidity (snow, rain, drought, indoor heat systems), temperature (room, outdoor, sun, shade, wind), and terrain if marching, all while playing complex technique from memory in sets of 6-10 different tunes in a variety of time signatures.
There are a lot of people who like to make fun of the pipes. Most pipers laugh along, because what else are you going to do? But at a wedding, after I piped the bride down the aisle, the guitar player in the house band cracked one of the usual (yes, I promise, I’ve heard them all, and seen all the videos, many, many times) bagpipe jokes to his band buddies, so I offered him my pipes to try. He declined. But he never joked again.
But when someone comes up to you with honest emotion and tells you a bagpipe story about their parent, or teacher, or sibling, or partner, and how pipes played a part in a deeply emotional life transition, it’s a moment of connection that reaches across continents and centuries. And when you play a tune they request, and they smile and applaud and maybe even wipe away a tear, and thank you so effusively, it feels like a uniquely human moment. Two people sharing the impact of music, sound, memory, power, and tradition.
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On a recent trip, I played my pipes on a BC beach. A woman watched and asked me to play Scotland the Brave. She said her late husband’s father played the pipes in the Australian armed forces in the Second World War, and her husband always hummed the tune in memory of his Dad.
When people ask for specific tunes, or tell me personal stories like this, I realize what an honour it is to be a culture bearer for this tradition. Funerals, weddings, honouring those who have died for others, leading people in parades that celebrate an event or community, or just playing fun tunes to lift people’s spirits; the pipes are iconic and important in ways no other instrument is.
The commitment is to make the music for the pleasure of others, and that means playing well. Playing well is not easy and takes years of hard practice to be even minimally competent, because it’s such a complex instrument. There is no equivalent to a guitar-player’s 3-chord folk song on the pipes. Cue the scene from Friends.
The instrument is a crazy system of reeds, tubes, string, and air, all of which must be controlled and each part of which can stop behaving optimally without warning, and often all at the same time. Pipers have to be knowledgeable about the effects of humidity (snow, rain, drought, indoor heat systems), temperature (room, outdoor, sun, shade, wind), and terrain if marching, all while playing complex technique from memory in sets of 6-10 different tunes in a variety of time signatures.
There are a lot of people who like to make fun of the pipes. Most pipers laugh along, because what else are you going to do? But at a wedding, after I piped the bride down the aisle, the guitar player in the house band cracked one of the usual (yes, I promise, I’ve heard them all, and seen all the videos, many, many times) bagpipe jokes to his band buddies, so I offered him my pipes to try. He declined. But he never joked again.
But when someone comes up to you with honest emotion and tells you a bagpipe story about their parent, or teacher, or sibling, or partner, and how pipes played a part in a deeply emotional life transition, it’s a moment of connection that reaches across continents and centuries. And when you play a tune they request, and they smile and applaud and maybe even wipe away a tear, and thank you so effusively, it feels like a uniquely human moment. Two people sharing the impact of music, sound, memory, power, and tradition.
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My band Vox Vulgaris just released a new track, slightly different from our usual #medieval #folk #music.
It's a remix/rework on IT'S ON U by the electro-punk-rap group Nora Sharks feat. Luthando Sound, released as the B-side of their single.We basically replaced their electronic production with our own traditional, acoustic instruments: two kinds of #bagpipes, recorder, tzouras, buisine, davul, qraqeb... and then we put their rappers back on top of it.
I think we arrived at a rather unconventional sound!#hiphop #medievalmusic #percussion #experimentalmusic #voxvulgaris
Bandcamp: https://norasharks.bandcamp.com/album/its-on-u
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/norasharksmusic/its-on-u-vox-vulgaris-rework-2
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/its-on-u-feat-luthando-sound-single/1881630592
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0Fi1jQ6QSthZQSGUehwzds
