Any Bagpipers out there?

[Kilted Stranger]

Hey all, i was just looking though this board and noticed that us Bagpipers dont have a board!!! an outrage! does anyone actually play the pipes? if not, people who like them are just as good. P.S. no jokes about Wailing Cats! well ok, but only a few! im warning you now, cause if there are too many ill either or get really !

God Bless

Kilted

 

[Vulgivagus hagiographus]

I don't play, but I assume you do. What kind do you play? Perhaps uillean? I've created a bit of a mess for myself by making up a story to write where one of the main characters plays uillean pipes, and I've never even seen a set in real life! I'm crazy!

 

[hylosg]

I LOVE bagpipes!!!!!!!!!! I want a pair so bad so I can learn to play.... *cheers for all the bagpipers out there*

Especially if you're Irish. =D

 

[phnx]

Awww wicked, ive always wanted to try the bagpipes!

I'm guessing they're quite hard to learn? Personally i think they 'can' sound very sound.

 

[Kilted Stranger]

i play the Highland Pipes. Ulilean pipes are bellow blown and the drones dont sit on the shoulder but rest in the crrok of the arm.

thanks everyone. Bagpipes... when in tune... are fantastic. its just that some pipers dont kknow how to tune and go out and play in public and so give the rest of us a bad reputation. o well. one day we shall be known as great musicians. yes Bagpipes are extremly difficuult to play.. its the blowing that gets u. one day i shall be a pipe major and teach others.... one day....

 

[Rab Tull]

Love the pipes, but have NO musical talent of my own. Can barely play the radio! Wanna hear some good pipin' right now? Check out E.J. Jones from my home state of Texas. Free MP3!

thewillowband.com/musicdownloads.html

Grace & Peace, Rab

 

[Kilted Stranger]

cool! thanks for that Rab!

 

[freetherich]

hey sir
we are actually looking for bagpipers quite anxiously infact.
you can see what we are up to here: psalters.org
short of finding a pro such as yourself to join the revolution we hope to get our hands on a couple tulums (turkish bagpipes) and do the best we can with some of us untrained piper wish-we-be's. we love the sound of turkish pipes, not to knock highland pipes --i am mostly scottish and in a certain sense scots seem to have made the best of the lot, but the tulum is one of the most emotive instruments i have ever ever heard.
-scotty

 

[Kilted Stranger]

erm.. sorrry but i read your website, but didnt manage to find out what you do... no offence taken, and im not a pro.. why are you needing pipers?

 

[seangoh]

ahhhh...piping...somehow celtic music comes to play.

 

[Kilted Stranger]

lol.. well its gotta find some way i suppose!

 

[Cnaeus]

Hey there, Kilted Stranger.

I play the pipes, and compete solo and with a band, Steel Thistle Youth Pipe Band. I was sort of wondering where in the music forum categories bagpipes would go (nowhere, it seems).

Yeah, this thread is sort of old, isn't it?

Anyway, as you are a bagpipe player, I have a few questions:

1) Favorite 2/4 march.
2) Do you play Piobaireachd? If so, favorite piece.
3) Latest tune learned.
4) Do you play in a band?
5) Do you compete at all? (If not, skip #6)
6) I don't know how Scotland does grade levels, but suppose they're the same as here in the States. What grade are you?
7) Composed anything?
8) Do you know Angus MacLellan? Because he owes me a subscription to the Glasgow Piping Times.

Thanks.

 

[rachelg2004]

I don't play but would be interested in learning. I love the sound they bring especially when the song Amazing Grace is played to them.

 

[Cnaeus]

It's a great instrument once you get past the initial "there's no way I can do this" thing. It's odd really... 90% of all the tunes I'm familiar are Scottish, I'm constantly fingering along to tunes I have stuck in my head (which makes me look mentally unstable ), and I probably practice about three hours a day without meaning to. It's like a disease.

Amazing Grace... not my favorite tune (but I suppose that's because it's so popular and oft played). I prefer the more traditional pieces. Another good tune that's often played at similar occasions as would be Amazing Grace is "Flowers of the Forest." It's worth a listen from a good enough bagpiper.

I'll talk at length about the bagpipes, so if you have any questions, etc. I'll be more than glad to address them all.

 

[Kilted Stranger]

Hey there, Kilted Stranger.

I play the pipes, and compete solo and with a band, Steel Thistle Youth Pipe Band. I was sort of wondering where in the music forum categories bagpipes would go (nowhere, it seems).

Yeah, this thread is sort of old, isn't it?

Anyway, as you are a bagpipe player, I have a few questions:

1) Favorite 2/4 march.
2) Do you play Piobaireachd? If so, favorite piece.
3) Latest tune learned.
4) Do you play in a band?
5) Do you compete at all? (If not, skip #6)
6) I don't know how Scotland does grade levels, but suppose they're the same as here in the States. What grade are you?
7) Composed anything?
8) Do you know Angus MacLellan? Because he owes me a subscription to the Glasgow Piping Times.

Thanks.

yup this thread died for a bit... thank you for reserecting it!!!

1. not sure if these are 2/4 but they are my favourite marchs 79th Farewell to Gilbralter and JOhn Macdonalds welcome to South Uist.
2. nope.. havent started there yet!
3. The Old Rustic bridge (i think... nice to go back to easy ones now and then)
4. No
5. Nope
6. Skipping but ye we have levels
7. Not officially... i scrunch a few notes together.. havnt written nefin down yet.
8. angus maclellan? isnt he like a great piper?? ive heard the name.. im sure i could find him...

how bout u??

Amazing grace is quite traditional... but its really easy... not much challenge.. like Highland Cathedral... you get bored out your skull when your playing with an orchestra...

lol! i do the fingering and the practising too!!! its the sign of a piper im told... im also told its very annoying! its great!!

can you tune ur pipes on your own??

 

[Cnaeus]

Yeah, but it takes a while.

Here, I'll answer my own questions...

1) Favorite 2/4 march.

I do also really like 79th's, but my favorite has to be either "The Conundrum" or "The Glenfinnan Highland Gathering."

2) Do you play Piobaireachd? If so, favorite piece.

I do play it, and my favorite is Lament for the Children. Second favorite: MacDonald of Kinlochmoidart's Lament (Number One).

3) Latest tune learned.

Inspector Donald Campbell of Ness

4) Do you play in a band?

Yes. Steel Thistle Youth Pipes and Drums.

5) Do you compete at all? (If not, skip #6)

Yes. I've only started competing, and I'll be competing at a highland games in September in a 2/4 March competition and a Piobaireachd, with Walter Douglas and MacDonald of Kinlochmoidart's Lament, respectively.

6) I don't know how Scotland does grade levels, but suppose they're the same as here in the States. What grade are you?

Grade 4, Junior. Working into Grade 3.

7) Composed anything?

Two jigs, one hornpipe, a slow air, and two marches, I think. Just getting started. If you want one (or more!) of my tunes, I can post them here.

8) Do you know Angus MacLellan? Because he owes me a subscription to the Glasgow Piping Times.

Yeah, he's famous. And I'm going to get that subscription...

 

[Kilted Stranger]

lol! yay! post your tunes!!! that would be well awesome!! then u cood b a composer who will one day hear his own tunes!

 

[Cnaeus]

Haha!

I'll post two for right now, a jig (Graham Carroll's Stitches*) and a march (The Eighth Bluebonnet School of Piping and Drumming*).

* Both tunes © [name removed; showed up on a Google search and that creeped me out], 2004.

 

[Kilted Stranger]

cool! will print them off and see if i can play dem... if the composer gives me permission that is...

 

[Cnaeus]

Of course, in the spirit of good will among pipers.