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In case you’re intersted, here’s the score for this piobaireachd. Note that this type of music is very heavy on the ornamentations, termed taorluaths and crunluaths, and the full notation is not shown. The ornamentations are shown by abbreviated notes in the score, which the piper reads and memorises. If the ornamentations were written in full, the score would be much longer.
Ornaments are usually not written out in, e.g., Japanese, or Baroque, or Indian, music for the same reason.
Any competent musician must know when and how to put them in.
“And others, when the bagpipe sings i’ th’ nose,
Cannot contain their urine.” - Merchant of Venice, IV, i
But Wully S. wis a bloody English bastard, so whit the hell did he ken?
English shepherds would have had bagpipes as well. The pibroch mhor isn’t the only form.
Considering the day, I think this is both good and appropriate. Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to all.
Exactly. Chaucer was well familiar with English bagpipes:
Many, many different nations and cultures around the world use, or have used, bagpipes of one kind or another.
List of Bagpipes around the world.
More pics of different varieties of bagpipes can be found on the wiki article on Bagpipes.
Some Spanish bagpipes:
Thanks for this! And to you, @What_Exit!
Nice seconds there.
Thanks @What_Exit
Much enjoyed.
Saor-làithean sona agus Nollaig chridheil!
Via online translator.
Oh, that was lovely. Thank you, and I hope you are having a wonderful holiday.
That was very awesome.
Much appreciated!
If you’ve never seen this film you really should. It’s about a Christmas truce in WWI.
The last time I had bagpipes in my life was in my teens.
I was on the seventh hole of our local public golf course after a line of evening thunderstorms had passed through. The sun had come out but the course was largely deserted.
As I ascended from a deep fairway bowl towards the elevated green, I began to hear bagpipes. They seemed to be coming from the east, but I couldn’t see the source. I kept climbing as the bagpipes got louder. Eventually as I reached the green, I could see a solitary bagpiper playing to a small but appreciative audience in the park across the street.
Earlier I had ascended to another elevated green just after the thunderstorms passed, to find that it was carpeted with rabbits.
That was a very strange evening.
Rabbits can be odd.
More Clanadonia.
