Your next Bagpipe adventure

CHasR · Post by **CHasR** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 10:47 am

Which pipe yould you most prefer to take up next? (sorry, you can only pick one)
We're talking 'wish-list' here, assume money and time are no obstacle,

One caveat:

Say, for instance, you play Border pipes in Bb, then choosing Border Pipes in D would not be an option. Pick a pipe you DON'T already play; but would LIKE to....

If you dont see your particular dream-pipe here, then tell us in a post + I'll make another poll to include it (if allowed) as one can only submit so many choices.
(Sweedish, Hungarian, Czech, Bulgarian, etc all got bumped...)

Ive tried to group them as close as I can...

Gabriel · Post by **Gabriel** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 11:13 am

I played cornemuse du centre for some time, and pretended to play the uilleann pipes when I had a Rogge practise set on loan. My narrow bore D chanter by Mr. Rogge will be ready soon, so I will take up the UP next.

Yuri · Post by **Yuri** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 8:34 pm

Why did all those E European ones get bumped? Any idea?

CHasR · Post by **CHasR** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 8:02 am

Yuri wrote:Why did all those E European ones get bumped? Any idea?

Not my choice...
one can only enter 9 poll options.

The Sporting Pitchfork · Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:10 am

I chose Northumbrian pipes. I already play GHB, SSP, and UP and I seriously doubt I'll ever take up another member of the bagpipe family, but I suppose that if I did, Northumbrian pipes would be most tempting...

wgority · Post by **wgority** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:22 am

I had to pick Zampogna (which I really do want to learn to play someday) because I already play all the rest...........

pancelticpiper · Post by **pancelticpiper** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:55 am

My latest adventure has been Julian Goodacre's Cornish Double Pipes (which kinda fits in your Ren revival category, but is completely different from what most Ren guys play). But true, I don't see gaida there...

CHasR · Post by **CHasR** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:11 am

pancelticpiper wrote:My latest adventure has been Julian Goodacre's Cornish Double Pipes (which kinda fits in your Ren revival category, but is completely different from what most Ren guys play). But true, I don't see gaida there...

I kept trying to add more options, + wouldnt post...
altho, there seems to be a LOT of interest in NSP....

OnlyAnEgg · Post by **OnlyAnEgg** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 6:26 am

Indeed, my next adventure is to learn the GHB. I bought my chanter yesterday. I have a tuner on my pc to train my pitch and I'm soon to find an instructor!

AaronMalcomb · Post by **AaronMalcomb** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:24 am

OnlyAnEgg wrote:I have a tuner on my pc to train my pitch...

To get the true GHB tuning experience, change your tuner settings every 10 minutes.

Just kidding but actually GHB players exist in a range of tuning. Practice chanters are usually a few cents sharp of A=440, solo pipes are often in the 472-476 range and band pipes go up from there to 482 on a hot day.

Once you find a teacher you'll get sorted. Whereabouts in Ohio are you?

I didn't answer the bagpipe poll because I'm exercising my will power.

TheSpoonMan · Post by **TheSpoonMan** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:44 pm

I said UP, since if i were to learn somethign new that's waht it'd be; my next goal, tho, is a bellows-blown A/Dset of smallpipes. Right now I have Gibson Ceilidhs in A, mouthblown, and they're nice, but... yeah.

OnlyAnEgg · Post by **OnlyAnEgg** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 6:48 am

AaronMalcomb wrote:
OnlyAnEgg wrote:I have a tuner on my pc to train my pitch...
To get the true GHB tuning experience, change your tuner settings every 10 minutes.

Just kidding but actually GHB players exist in a range of tuning. Practice chanters are usually a few cents sharp of A=440, solo pipes are often in the 472-476 range and band pipes go up from there to 482 on a hot day.

Once you find a teacher you'll get sorted. Whereabouts in Ohio are you?

I didn't answer the bagpipe poll because I'm exercising my will power.

I'm east of Columbus about 20 miles or so, in Newark.

Oy! The first day with the chanter! I've never blown a double reed before. I thought I'd pass out! My daughter came over (she's 14) and played a scale on it and every time she blew a note, I made a farm animal sound. So, it's (as I knew it would be) music AND fun

AaronMalcomb · Post by **AaronMalcomb** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:56 am

Mr(s). Egg, I sent you a PM.

I went ahead and voted for uilleann pipes though that is going to be a ways down the road. My second choice would be a Breton bagpipe, most likely veuze since I don't think I could get my big mitts to play that tiny biniou kozh chanter.

I don't know about some of the cornemuses du centre or the medieval/renaissance pipes but the majority of the pipes listed have double reeds in the chanter. Maybe that could be a way to qualify the poll a bit better: double reed family v. single reed family.

CHasR · Post by **CHasR** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 7:26 pm

AaronMalcomb wrote:Mr(s). Egg, I sent you a PM.

I don't know about some of the cornemuses du centre or the medieval/renaissance pipes but the majority of the pipes listed have double reeds in the chanter. Maybe that could be a way to qualify the poll a bit better: double reed family v. single reed family.

CDC's , to the best of my knowledge, are all DR chanter, SR drones; including Cabrette, Chabrette, Chabra, Bechonnet, Nivernais, Limousin, Bourbonaisse, Mayonaisse, oops

Medi/Renn pipes tend to be 'western-euro' in design, (DR chanter, SR drones) but there are exceptions, I'm sure. SR chanters are firmly in the eastern-euro family of pipes. If Yuri's watching this he's more knowledgable than I about the varieties of Medi/Renn pipes around today.

never handled a BiniouKozh, eh? We'll have to remedy that somehow...

Yuri · Post by **Yuri** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:20 pm

Well, the Mayonnaise pipes (and pies) are really good for the mediaeval repertoire.
Theing is, no-one really knows just what went on in mediaeval times. Recently in France they excavated a 10th c. town, that was built on the shores of a lake, and due to global warming in the 10th c. it got flooded. (I'm actually not kidding) So what do they find? A what is now classified as a bagpipe chanter, it's double, with fingerholes on one bore only, in short the same (in principle as the boha of France, and also the Hungarian duda and related thingies. Also the Basque alboka and all the North African pipes)
What I'm getting at is that while since the Renaissance you can broadly divide pipes as DR chanter/SR chanter, it's a moot point whether it was always so. Swedish pipes spring to mind as well. Also one of the very oldest pipes in existance is a Czech set dated to 1527 if I remember rightly. So Czechia is E. Europe, right? Well, have a look on the map. It isn't. Just so happens that the Soviet Union occupied it during WW2, that's all. Praetorius writes about the Bock, that's the Czech duda exactly. (he doesn't actually specify the reeds for the Bock, but it just too similar to the duda to mistake.)
And then there is the Zampogna and related ones, like surdelina. They seem to have had sort of interchangeable reeds, and they are ancient, aren't they, Charlie? When I listened to a recording of the Sardinian launeddas (unbroken history of at least2700 years), I was struck by the similarity of the music to that of the Zampognia.
Then the Welsh double chanter, but I think I made my point, however hazy it is.

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