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Unfortunately, exactly that weekend, I'll be just the opposite end of Germany, the ultimate north-west, to celebrate my wedding day...
It breaks my heart - but if I try to be somewhere else or drag mylady to yet another bagpipe festival ON OUR WEDDING DAY, she'll probably brake my jaw...

No, these are the "normal", droneless, Shuvyr-type bagpipes You'd expect to see at Mari and Chuvash. The Surnai had two drones, one on the right arm and one on the left.

Miracles do happen - even I found a bagpipe I never ever heard of before - on the CD "Mother Volga", a collection of Volga-Ugric music (Mari and Chuvash): The SURNAI. Unfortunately (or maybe not that unfortunately since it's played together - or rather against! - a Chuvash Shopor with a to...

...exactly the reaction I usually get when I play...

Banat Gajde? Carpathian-type-chantered?? in Serbia??? Never heard anything about that - not even in Broemse's famous study about Southern-Slavic bagpipes from 1937! Sounds very much like a Croatian-low-A-Gajde to me! Does anyone know more about this instrument?

If You want a good impression of the sound of Dominic's low-Ds, I strongly suggest his adorable "Citizen Camenbert"-album "Anchovy Cappuccino"

...so were Pipebands. And Bombarde- and Biniou-Couples were HC-Tekkno!
Eluveitie was mentioned, a.o., in
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...historically speaking, the 20 Pouces used to be played open-fingered. Not really sure, when it changed to modern half-open (= French), but the Remy Dubois from the 80ies I was allowed to play could be properly played both ways...

Swayne's BP-chanters are, in fact copies of cornemuse-chanters. So, it's definitely a cornemuse in Low-D or 20 Pouces, if You like. You might m´want to search for "(Grande) Cornemuse Bourbonnaise" or "Cornemuse Nivernaise" in 20 pouces, it will give You the same sound.

Don't forget "Fiddler" as a job-option - they've got some of the world's finest Celtic Music up there!
...PEI-potatoes are, in fact, really great - I'll never forget my first poutine there! Yummy...

Does anyone know anything about Lincolnshire Bagpipes? I don't mean Goodacre's Leicestershire Smallpipes - I'm searching for an Instrument like on Ashley Hutchin's 1976 "Rattlebone&Ploughjack", Mollydancing-(Field-?)recordings without dating. There You hear a one-droned bagpipe with ob...

@Fenevad: I see, sorry! If the Bouha really got it's influence from Hungarian bagpipes before these had a drone, it really makes more sense. The question about the caramusa would still have to be answered, however, as well as the question, whether the Bouha was a copy of Hungarian droneless pipes, o...

@Fenevad: If You read the thread thoroughly, You'd have noticed, that we had all Your points a few pages before: - Fragments of single-reeded double-chantered pipes of the mediterranean type had been found pretty close by, - tin-inlays have been almost omnipresent in central France since 17th centur...

@Dominic: ...but if You click on their "instruments"-link, You'll find the Caramusa just as described before, very much like the Bouha - with one (visible) difference: It seems to have a carved (human?) head on the chanterstock, veeery much like the Croatian Mih/Diple bagpipes! :shock: Wha...

ZdF: Where would You put the Turkish Tulum then? Some of them do have all the holes of one chanter open, some close some of them, some all but one! Or the Georgian Gudastviri and Chiboni, that have only 3 holes open on left chanter? Or the greek Tsampouna, that only has one hole open on 2nd chanter,...