# Rock Songs With Bagpipes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-bagpipes/457459>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 23, 2008, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-bagpipes/457459 "2008-07-23T05:39:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-bagpipes/457459/61 "2008-07-28T16:46:03Z")

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[QUOTE=Guinastasia]  
“Jump Around” -House of Pain, an Irish-style hip-hop group in the early '90s. (Does that count, even though it’s not quite “rock”?)  
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That high pitched noise, while probably possible with bag pipes is actually a piccolo trumpet hit. I think they show a piper in the video, but the majority of that whole song is sampled from the song “Harlem Shuffle” by Bob and Earl.

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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-bagpipes/457459/62 "2008-07-28T17:52:52Z")

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[QUOTE=Cluricaun]  
That high pitched noise, while probably possible with bag pipes is actually a piccolo trumpet hit. I think they show a piper in the video, but the majority of that whole song is sampled from the song “Harlem Shuffle” by Bob and Earl.  
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I think there’s a short sample of pipes that’s constantly repeated as a backing track. It’s not the high-pitched part, but the drone underneath everything. I’ll admit that my first reaction was to think “WTF is she thinking?” when **Guin** posted that (because I didn’t remember any bagpipes in it when it first came out), but after listening to it a couple of times, I think she’s right.

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**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-bagpipes/457459/63 "2008-07-28T18:49:17Z")

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[QUOTE=AHunter3]  
I think Pink Floyd’s “Chapter 24” from _Piper at the Gates of Dawn_ has bagpipes, but when I advanced-google “bagpipes” + “pink floyd” + “chapter 24” I get a zillion hits not one of which seems to contain the word “bagpipes” (go figure).

So no confirmation. Could by synthy stuff that just sounds like bagpipes.  
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I hate to be the constant party pooper, but no, no bagpipes here. Definitely.

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**Author:** ![Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walker_in_Eternity)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-bagpipes/457459/64 "2008-07-30T18:51:31Z")

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At least one track on [Blackout in the Red Room](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackout_in_the_Red_Room) by **Love/Hate** has bagpipes on if I recall correctly. Although it has been a while since I listened to it.

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