"Alternative" piping !?!

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"Alternative" piping !?!

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For those who may not have met them, (like me, until this evening), check out the "Red Hot Chilli Pipers" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwrvHnYpwkk for some really "different" bagpiping :devil:
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Kind of like Badpiper, but without the flames... :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxEienWi ... ata_player
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The pipers in Red Hot Chilli Pipers are mainstream Highland pipers who have come up through the ordinary Pipe Band and Solos competition scene, people who have participated in that scene at the highest level.

For example one of the pipers is Craig Munro, a bagpipe maker, who had 10 years experience playing with some of the world's best Grade One bands, and who is an instructor at The College Of Piping and The National Piping Centre.

The founder of Red Hot Chilli Pipers, Stuart Cassells, grew up playing in the Grade One pipe band Vale Of Atholl.

Three of the band members have degrees from The Royal Scottish Academy Of Music And Drama.

Here you can hear them playing a tune often played by competition pipe bands (The Crooked Bridge), played exactly as they would in an ordinary Pipe Band, the snare drummer playing the same style he would in a pipe band (the snare drummer is in fact a champion competition Highland drummer)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFbXSKb0qEo

Having a guitarist playing along, and having everyone jumping about while playing, doesn't disguise the fact that the piping itself is high quality mainstream piping.

BTW it seems that they misspell the word "chili" , do they not? "Chilli", if such a word existed, would be pronounced something like "chee-yee".
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BTW it seems that they misspell the word "chili" , do they not? "Chilli", if such a word existed, would be pronounced something like "chee-yee".
... interesting observation :)

Maybe Chili Pipers was just a little too close to Chili Peppers for someone ... or maybe it's a play on words, chilli as in chilly - "cool" 8)
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Kypfer wrote: maybe it's a play on words, chilli as in chilly
Or maybe "chilli" is a British spelling? They do tend to put in double l's where Americans only have one (jewellery).
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Or maybe "chilli" is a British spelling?
... hadn't thought of that! A quick search shows the BBC uses "chilli" http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/chilli so that'll do for me :)
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I must admit, when I've seen the spelling "chili", I've just assumed it was a typo.
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benhall.1 wrote:I must admit, when I've seen the spelling "chili", I've just assumed it was a typo.
They're both anglicized versions of the Spanish word "chile".
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