#bagpipes — Public Fediverse posts

Bagpiper inspiring a charge, WW1 (Cyrus Cuneo)

Bagpiper inspiring a charge, WW1 (Cyrus Cuneo)

https://piefed.social/c/historyart/p/2063164/bagpiper-inspiring-a-charge-ww1-cyrus-cuneo

Bagpiper inspiring a charge, WW1 (Cyrus Cuneo)

Bagpiper inspiring a charge, WW1 (Cyrus Cuneo)

https://piefed.social/c/historyart/p/2063164/bagpiper-inspiring-a-charge-ww1-cyrus-cuneo

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

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2013/11/when-a-guy-brings-bagpipes-to-your-event

#meetings #EventDesign #impromptu #serendipity #bagpipes #events #eventprofs

Enjoyed this new WDR Funkhausorchestra performance with uillean piper Mark Redmond. I had not heard a recording of Shaun Davey's "The Brendan Voyage" before. The Irish piping reminded me a lot of the Scottish pipes in Scott MacMillan's "MacKinnon's Brook Suite". Both involving voyages, migration, and Canada.

WDR "The Brendan Voyage" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0M_uizIsFo

Symphony Nova Scotia, MacKinnon's Brook Suite, Mvmt 3 (pipes midway): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO5YRT_WTH0

#Music #Bagpipes

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
#trekharmonica

@stdraailierdoedelzak

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.

#Music
#Bagpipes
#Scottish
#GreatHighlandBagpipe

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

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

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

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

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

Pipe Dreams • Austin, Texas, USA

Rolleiflex 2.8 D • Kodak Tri-X 400 • 2026

#FilmPhotography #Kodak #TriX #Camera #Film120 #MediumFormat #Rolleiflex #BWfilm #Monochrome #Photography #ATX #TX #Downtown #Austin #Texas #Bagpipes #Music #People #Street #StPatricksDay #March_17_2026

It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ’n’ Roll) – AC⚡DC live on TV, 1976 🤘

6/6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nULs4JW3tPI

#Scotland #Scottish #music #history #culture #bagpipes #InternationalBagpipeDay #rock #rockmusic #acdc

Via atlasobscura: a statue of Bon Scott – lead vocalist & lyricist with AC⚡DC 1974–1980 – with his bagpipes in Kirriemuir

5/6

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bon-scott-statue

#Scotland #Scottish #music #history #culture #bagpipes #InternationalBagpipeDay #rock #rockmusic #acdc

“In addition to being spectacularly anarchic-sounding, bagpipes have long been part of a tradition of protest—one that’s perfectly in line with the disruptive ethos rock was founded on”

—Prof @seeshespeak on bagpipes & rock music

4/6

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/07/the-bagpipes-legacy-of-noise/490217/

#Scotland #Scottish #music #history #culture #bagpipes #InternationalBagpipeDay #rock #rockmusic

“From the plaintive melodies and deep drones of the great Highland bagpipe, to the unique double chanter harmonies of the Italian zampogna, bagpipes have particular timbral qualities that lend themselves to folk traditions and experimental music alike.”

3/6

https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/experimental-bagpipes-list

#Scotland #Scottish #music #history #culture #bagpipes #InternationalBagpipeDay

“Virginia Woolf’s… THE WAVES, was partly influenced by Beethoven’s quartets; Gunn’s is not just influenced by Scottish bagpipe music, it seeks to inhabit it.”
—The Guardian

A suitable read for International Bagpipe Day: Kirsty Gunn’s 2012 novel THE BIG MUSIC

2/6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXJ64F0uwko

#Scotland #Scottish #literature #historicalfiction #music #history #culture #bagpipes #InternationalBagpipeDay

“It looks as if a Man could Toot himself to Heaven upon the Whore of Babylon’s Bagpipes”

—how 18th-century English satirists used bagpipes to signify Jacobitism & Catholicism, & the threat to the Establishment

🎵 10 March is International Bagpipe Day! A 🎶🧵

1/6

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/the-scottish-bagpipe-political-and-religious-symbolism-in-english-literature-and-satire/

#Scotland #Scottish #music #history #culture #bagpipes #InternationalBagpipeDay #18thcentury #satire #Jacobites

Listening to German radio today, as one does, and they celebrated, with some wonderful music, the International Day of Bagpipes.

I didn't know it was a thing, but now I'm celebrating too.

#life #Scotland #bagpipes #music

Happy International Bagpipe Day everybody!

I’m sad to say this attempted pipebag for my hummelchen didn’t work very well (as it made them unplayable!), though I still think the concept was sound.

#InternationalBagpipeDay #Bagpipes #Cornemuse #BorderPipes #Smallpipes #Hummelchen

Happy International Bagpipe Day everybody!

I’m sad to say this attempted pipebag for my hummelchen didn’t work very well (as it made them unplayable!), though I still think the concept was sound.

#InternationalBagpipeDay #Bagpipes #Cornemuse #BorderPipes #Smallpipes #Hummelchen

Happy International Bagpipe Day everybody!

I’m sad to say this attempted pipebag for my hummelchen didn’t work very well (as it made them unplayable!), though I still think the concept was sound.

#InternationalBagpipeDay #Bagpipes #Cornemuse #BorderPipes #Smallpipes #Hummelchen

Happy International Bagpipe Day everybody!

I’m sad to say this attempted pipebag for my hummelchen didn’t work very well (as it made them unplayable!), though I still think the concept was sound.

#InternationalBagpipeDay #Bagpipes #Cornemuse #BorderPipes #Smallpipes #Hummelchen

Happy International Bagpipe Day everybody!

I’m sad to say this attempted pipebag for my hummelchen didn’t work very well (as it made them unplayable!), though I still think the concept was sound.

#InternationalBagpipeDay #Bagpipes #Cornemuse #BorderPipes #Smallpipes #Hummelchen

@GreatBigTable

#Scotland has been pretty good to #Canada, giving us the #kilt, #bagpipes and #curling.

I will forgive them for #golf.

This is really quite cool. https://youtu.be/1xrFs3f_KBg

#Bagpipes #FlemishPipes #Europipes #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad

Xylograph engraving based on the mural at the Cimetière des Innocents (1490) by Pierre Le Rouge, from La danse macabre nouvelle.

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/55a301aa-d8aa-472a-bda9-1916350e6f8a

#dance-of-death #string-instruments #mortality #percussion #drums #skeletons #bagpipes #wind-instruments #instruments #memento-mori #art #publicdomain

Some of my music friends have had their bank account drained and have no money for publicity bumps. They were due to release their new album on #Bandcamp this coming Friday. If you're a fan of #Topette or #Blowzabella #FolkMusic #Accordion #accordéon #BalFolk, #AndyCutting #TenorBanjo #Bagpipes please spread the word. They're lovely, lovely people and fantastic musicians. Their music is full of joy! This is where they live online: https://www.topette.co.uk/

#BandcampFriday

Some of my music friends have had their bank account drained and have no money for publicity bumps. They were due to release their new album on #Bandcamp this coming Friday. If you're a fan of #Topette or #Blowzabella #FolkMusic #Accordion #accordéon #BalFolk, #AndyCutting #TenorBanjo #Bagpipes please spread the word. They're lovely, lovely people and fantastic musicians. Their music is full of joy! This is where they live online: https://www.topette.co.uk/

#BandcampFriday

Some of my music friends have had their bank account drained and have no money for publicity bumps. They were due to release their new album on #Bandcamp this coming Friday. If you're a fan of #Topette or #Blowzabella #FolkMusic #Accordion #accordéon #BalFolk, #AndyCutting #TenorBanjo #Bagpipes please spread the word. They're lovely, lovely people and fantastic musicians. Their music is full of joy! This is where they live online: https://www.topette.co.uk/

#BandcampFriday

Some of my music friends have had their bank account drained and have no money for publicity bumps. They were due to release their new album on #Bandcamp this coming Friday. If you're a fan of #Topette or #Blowzabella #FolkMusic #Accordion #accordéon #BalFolk, #AndyCutting #TenorBanjo #Bagpipes please spread the word. They're lovely, lovely people and fantastic musicians. Their music is full of joy! This is where they live online: https://www.topette.co.uk/

#BandcampFriday

Some of my music friends have had their bank account drained and have no money for publicity bumps. They were due to release their new album on #Bandcamp this coming Friday. If you're a fan of #Topette or #Blowzabella #FolkMusic #Accordion #accordéon #BalFolk, #AndyCutting #TenorBanjo #Bagpipes please spread the word. They're lovely, lovely people and fantastic musicians. Their music is full of joy! This is where they live online: https://www.topette.co.uk/

#BandcampFriday

There's a local bagpiper here in Reno who advertises his business on his car, and he has one of those "LOUD PIPES SAVE LIVES" stickers on his bumper that Harley riders use, which is the best reappropriating of a message-type sticker that i've ever seen, lol. #RenoNV #Bagpipes #Scotland 🎶

This recording from Blowzabella’s early days of the well known “Bear Dance” is listed as “Bear Dance No. 3” - so is it the/a third recording of it, or are there two other Bear Dances that didn’t become popular? Anyone know?

https://orkestargrupapecalbari.bandcamp.com/track/bear-dance-no-3

Anyone got any cool folk music to share this #TuneswapTuesday?

#Bagpipes #Europipes #Cornemuse #Melodeon #Accordion #DiatonicAccordion #AccordeonDiatonique #Diato #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad

This recording from Blowzabella’s early days of the well known “Bear Dance” is listed as “Bear Dance No. 3” - so is it the/a third recording of it, or are there two other Bear Dances that didn’t become popular? Anyone know?

https://orkestargrupapecalbari.bandcamp.com/track/bear-dance-no-3

Anyone got any cool folk music to share this #TuneswapTuesday?

#Bagpipes #Europipes #Cornemuse #Melodeon #Accordion #DiatonicAccordion #AccordeonDiatonique #Diato #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad

This recording from Blowzabella’s early days of the well known “Bear Dance” is listed as “Bear Dance No. 3” - so is it the/a third recording of it, or are there two other Bear Dances that didn’t become popular? Anyone know?

https://orkestargrupapecalbari.bandcamp.com/track/bear-dance-no-3

Anyone got any cool folk music to share this #TuneswapTuesday?

#Bagpipes #Europipes #Cornemuse #Melodeon #Accordion #DiatonicAccordion #AccordeonDiatonique #Diato #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad

This recording from Blowzabella’s early days of the well known “Bear Dance” is listed as “Bear Dance No. 3” - so is it the/a third recording of it, or are there two other Bear Dances that didn’t become popular? Anyone know?

https://orkestargrupapecalbari.bandcamp.com/track/bear-dance-no-3

Anyone got any cool folk music to share this #TuneswapTuesday?

#Bagpipes #Europipes #Cornemuse #Melodeon #Accordion #DiatonicAccordion #AccordeonDiatonique #Diato #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad

This recording from Blowzabella’s early days of the well known “Bear Dance” is listed as “Bear Dance No. 3” - so is it the/a third recording of it, or are there two other Bear Dances that didn’t become popular? Anyone know?

https://orkestargrupapecalbari.bandcamp.com/track/bear-dance-no-3

Anyone got any cool folk music to share this #TuneswapTuesday?

#Bagpipes #Europipes #Cornemuse #Melodeon #Accordion #DiatonicAccordion #AccordeonDiatonique #Diato #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad

Meet 21-year-old playing #bagpipes at #US #protests

He played in both #LA & #Portland (once following the death of Alex #Pretti) Duffy is playing in the face of #violent tactics to #suppress #demonstrations against #trump – especially when #TearGas is deployed

When asked how #police react, Duffy laughs, and says: “They’ve reacted pretty negatively”.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25873187.meet-21-year-old-playing-bagpipes-us-protests/

#PoliceState #dictatorship #authoritarianism #trump #USAggression #lawlessness #fascism #oppression #Orwellian

Meet 21-year-old playing #bagpipes at #US #protests

He played in both #LA & #Portland (once following the death of Alex #Pretti) Duffy is playing in the face of #violent tactics to #suppress #demonstrations against #trump – especially when #TearGas is deployed

When asked how #police react, Duffy laughs, and says: “They’ve reacted pretty negatively”.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25873187.meet-21-year-old-playing-bagpipes-us-protests/

#PoliceState #dictatorship #authoritarianism #trump #USAggression #lawlessness #fascism #oppression #Orwellian

Meet 21-year-old playing #bagpipes at #US #protests

He played in both #LA & #Portland (once following the death of Alex #Pretti) Duffy is playing in the face of #violent tactics to #suppress #demonstrations against #trump – especially when #TearGas is deployed

When asked how #police react, Duffy laughs, and says: “They’ve reacted pretty negatively”.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25873187.meet-21-year-old-playing-bagpipes-us-protests/

#PoliceState #dictatorship #authoritarianism #trump #USAggression #lawlessness #fascism #oppression #Orwellian

This book inspired many a college party

#meme #memes #shitpost #books #scotland #bagpipes #plaid #bong #weed #marijuana #pothead

Design events with an overall structure in mind — and where you and the participants are open to the unexpected

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2013/11/when-a-guy-brings-bagpipes-to-your-event

#meetings #EventDesign #impromptu #serendipity #bagpipes #events #eventprofs

Wonderful weekend at #Halswaymanor for the annual hurdy-gurdy and bagpipes weekend. Great tutors and participants 😊
Many nationalities present ❤️
#hurdygurdy #drehleier #viellearoue #zanfona #bagpipes #cornemuses #dudelsack #gaita #bagpipesociety

Design events with an overall structure in mind — and where you and the participants are open to the unexpected

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2013/11/when-a-guy-brings-bagpipes-to-your-event

#meetings #EventDesign #impromptu #serendipity #bagpipes #events #eventprofs