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Bagpipes!Bagpipes!Posted Mar 15, 2012 8:52 UTC (Thu) by Seegras (subscriber, #20463)In reply to: Weir: Where did the time go? by jspaleta Parent article: Weir: Where did the time go?
WTF is "traditional bagpipe playing clothing" supposed to be? An afghan Pakul? Galician Slops? Maroccan Jelabah? Or a medieval "Cotte"?
http://www4.uwm.edu/celtic/ekeltoi/volumes/vol6/6_18/imag...
Just in case you haven't heard of it, the bagpipe happened to be played from north africa to scandinavia, from portugal to asia. They came probably from the middle east, and only arrived in england in the 14th century, when the rest of europe was already happily bagpiping. Today, the biggest producer of bagpipes is - Pakistan!
(Note for the record, so you can't accuse me of being a bagpipe-shill on grounds of suspicion of being a bagpipe-player: I don't play bagpipes. But I play shawm and bombard. Search for them up on youtube if you don't know how these sound. Most people are horrified ;))
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Bagpipes! Posted Mar 15, 2012 11:41 UTC (Thu) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link] And also incidentally there is no such thing as »the bagpipe«. It is about as well-defined a concept as »the car«. (PS. I'm also not a bagpipe player. I agree that if bagpipes aren't your cup of tea, you will definitely want to give bombards, which are essentially bagpipes without the bag or drones and optimised for ear-splittingness, a wide berth. A couple of kilometers should do it.)
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