# Bagpipes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 28, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bagpipes/185039 "2003-06-28T22:47:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bagpipes/185039/21 "2003-06-29T17:56:23Z")
There used to be a piper who’d practice in the schoolyard on the other side of my back fence. Haven’t heard him/her recently, I guess he/she moved away. I always kind of enjoyed the mystery of “oh, there’s the piper,” when I was out weeding. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bagpipes/185039/22 "2003-06-29T18:13:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Archergal \* > \*\*My favorite is the Northumbrian Smallpipes. They’ve got a great, sweet bubbly sound. I must have 6 or 7 Northumbrian Smallpipes CDs. > > Check out Kathryn Tickell’s music for examples.\*\* **Archergal,** you are a person of rare taste and discernment. Yours sincerely, WotNot, the native Northumbrian ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bagpipes/185039/23 "2003-06-29T20:54:05Z")
I have a CD of bagpipes, and I’m not ashamed to say that it’s because I _like_ them. If it happens to annoy other folks, well that’s they’re problem that they’re not sophisticated enough to appreciate good music. And **Futile Gesture** , it isn’t even enough to hear them outside. Good piping, you don’t just hear, you feel it. ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bagpipes/185039/24 "2003-06-30T00:06:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by WotNot \* > \*\ ***Archergal,** you are a person of rare taste and discernment. > > Yours sincerely, > > WotNot, the native Northumbrian \*\* Why thank you, **WotNot**! 🆒 I have an interest in the border lands and would love to visit the area some day! A lot of good tunes came out of Northumbria. ---
**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bagpipes/185039/25 "2003-06-30T00:21:30Z")
I’ve got a Seamus Ennis ulian(sp?) pipes CD. Does that count? I freaking love bagpipes. ---
**Author:** ![red\_dragon60](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@red\_dragon60](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red_dragon60)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bagpipes/185039/26 "2003-06-30T01:12:30Z")
The Dropkick Murphys and the Pogues both have some songs which feature bagpipes in a punk band. It’s a very interesting sound! ---
**Author:** ![Quantum\_Butterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e79b87/32.png) [@Quantum\_Butterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quantum_Butterfly)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bagpipes/185039/27 "2003-06-30T04:41:01Z")
My sister has a CD by a band called Hevia, which I steal- ahem, borrow- when I’m in the mood for some piping. There’s also some bagpipage on several of my Celtic music collection CDs. I think bagpipes are one of those things that you love or hate, the auditory equivalent of black licorice. (Of which I am also a fan. 😃 ) Properly played pipes shiver down your spine with an unearthly sound… **Archergal** , I’ll have to check out Northumbrian Smallpipes music. Thanks for the heads-up! 🙂 Speaking of unusual instruments, [slight hijack] do you like hammered dulcimer? I’m renting and attempting to learn to play one. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Kegg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Kegg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kegg)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bagpipes/185039/28 "2003-06-30T10:41:10Z")
O.K. I have several pipe CDs, and even had a set or pipes untill my nephew coundn’t live with out them, Now I’m not sure I can. ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bagpipes/185039/29 "2003-06-30T21:38:25Z")
Hmmm…I have close to a dozen CD’s featuring pipe music - not only the Great Highland Bagpipes, but also Uillean Pipes and Lowland Smallpipes. There’s also a lot of tin whilstle and bodhran happening there. ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bagpipes/185039/30 "2003-06-30T22:22:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Quantum Butterfly \* > \*\* Speaking of unusual instruments, [slight hijack] do you like hammered dulcimer? I’m renting and attempting to learn to play one. [/hijack] \*\* I HAVE a hammered dulcimer! I love the sound of them, and I can play mine a bit, but I found out that holding the hammers and playing aggravates a sore tendon in my right wrist. ☹ So my HD will be for sale whenever I get around to doing something about it. I always thought that hammered dulcimer music would be what raindrops sounded like if they were music. Ok, silly and sentimental, but hey, sue me. 😉 I love the sound. ---
**Author:** ![Zelski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c67d28/32.png) [@Zelski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zelski)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bagpipes/185039/31 "2003-06-30T23:58:43Z")
You can major in bagpipe at my undergraduate school! The picture text on the right side gives a reference: [http://www.cmu.edu/enrollment/admission/know/programs\_and\_majors.html#CFA](http://www.cmu.edu/enrollment/admission/know/programs_and_majors.html#CFA) ---
**Author:** ![Quantum\_Butterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e79b87/32.png) [@Quantum\_Butterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quantum_Butterfly)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bagpipes/185039/32 "2003-07-01T01:22:30Z")
Yeah, hammered dulcimer requires much wrist action. Like just about anything hammered; marimba, vibraphone, chimes, xylophone… I was in percussion pit for a while in high school. LOVED the mallet instruments! Marimba has this lovely rich tone to it, and vibraphone has more of a chime-like quality. Too bad all the mallet instruments cost about as much as an average car. ☹ **Archergal** , let me know if you ever get around to selling your dulcimer, 'kay? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bagpipes/185039.md?page=1)