While we seem to be on a bagpipe theme here's some from south of the border .... worth hanging in there to see the difference between tunes in the old scale and the 'modern' 200 year old stuff 🙂 The Northumbrian pipes have a very different sound from the Scottish pipes.
The vid's a bit tame looking as it's a stage in a club rather than a stadium gig 🙂
While we're on the "We will rock you" theme, if you can't make it Switzerland to see some authentic "Guggenmusik" then these guys are a close(ish) alternative, here playing live in Bournemouth about 12 years ago https://youtu.be/xODnM_uXnL8
Peter 2009 3-litre Roadster "Ivor", royal ivory / green
While we seem to be on a bagpipe theme here's some from south of the border .... worth hanging in there to see the difference between tunes in the old scale and the 'modern' 200 year old stuff 🙂 The Northumbrian pipes have a very different sound from the Scottish pipes.
The vid's a bit tame looking as it's a stage in a club rather than a stadium gig 🙂
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Please excuse my longer comment on the music...it sounds more written from the head than the heart, but I enjoyed the music very much, heart first.
This is fantastic music that is played fantastically well in this video. It is remarkable and a pleasure with what good timing this kind of folk music is played and needs to be played to the heart and foot. Without this timing, the unison playing between bagpipes and accordion would not be as effective. The rhythms are sometimes very intelligently intricate due to offsets and different accentuations. In addition, there is this really special art of phrasing when a note is played on the bagpipes at lightning speed and only as an accent, as in Irish folk music..... or probably in everything with Celtic influences? I think you have to know and love this music, because without these origins I can't imagine how some sounds, phrases and pieces would have come about in the great era of British rock jazz, for example. E.g. some songs by the group Gentle Giant, but also many other bands, also some arrangements by the earlier Genesis.
I have questions for the connoisseurs of this music. e.g. in minute 3:30 in the chorus (I assume it is the chorus) this arrangement with those chords...has this been added in modern times with guitar and bass? Or was this already played 200 years ago?
Bit of a bagpipe fan myself - I used to do battle re-enactment in my youth and spent happy hours drumming round a campfire with some of these guys. The piper 'Chick' was in 'Gladiator' - the bloke waving the head around at the start of the film...
"Y mae dafad ddu ym mhob praidd" 1972 4/4, 1981 MGBGT, 1984 FLHT1340, 1980 XLH1000, 1990 ZX10
