Are your pipes male or female?

rorybbellows · Post by **rorybbellows** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 3:57 pm

I was talking to a piper the other night who constantly refered to his pipes as she ,I always thought of pipes as being male , as in the king of pipes !!

What do you think ??

RORY

djm · Post by **djm** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:01 pm

I guess that would be up to the individual piper, and what they prefer to have sitting on their lap.

djm

KevinCorkery · Post by **KevinCorkery** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:23 pm

I've never considered instruments, cars or anything in gender form. Some people name things too. Its just wood and brass to me.

Hans-Joerg · Post by **Hans-Joerg** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:24 pm

shemale

Post by **Nanohedron** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:29 pm

I think of my pipes as a concept rather than a gender. Does that help?

wgority · Post by **wgority** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:31 pm

My pipes are my voice.

rorybbellows · Post by **rorybbellows** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:33 pm

KevinCorkery wrote:I've never considered instruments, cars or anything in gender form. Some people name things too. Its just wood and brass to me.

I,m the complete opposite ,I tend to bond with my possessions ,maybe not give them names ,but I do think of them as having personalitys

My pipes have a very strong personality,but I,m still not sure if it,s male or female ,I think it all depends on how they are playing or more to the point ,how I,m playing !!!

RORY

Felix · Post by **Felix** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:59 pm

In french, "Uilleann-pipe" is a masculine word. But it's not that simple because the word for "bagpipes", "cornemuse" is feminine.
How about other languages?

Ceann Cromtha · Post by **Ceann Cromtha** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 7:31 pm

Felix wrote:In french, "Uilleann-pipe" is a masculine word. But it's not that simple because the word for "bagpipes", "cornemuse" is feminine.
How about other languages?

Russian: volynka = feminine
Bulgarian/Macedonian: gajda = feminine
Georgian: gudastsviri = inanimate (class) (Georgian does not have grammatical gender)

TheSpoonMan · Post by **TheSpoonMan** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 7:38 pm

Latin- utricula (feminine)

German- der Dudelsack (masculine)- but! die Sackpfeife (feminine). And I've seen "das Bagpipe" (neuter) too

Yuri · Post by **Yuri** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 8:18 pm

Hungarian-duda. Hungarian doesn't have gender , like Georgian.
Slovakian, Polish, Chech- dudy. That's plural, therefore no gender. They got out of this in a rather claver way, didn't they?

psychodonald · Post by **psychodonald** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 10:51 pm

With regard to Scottish Gaelic: Bagpipe is femine, piob, pioba (femine); piob-mhor (femine). I think of my pipes and refer to them in the femine. I feel compelled to say that I don't have a gender identity issue, at least I didn't until I started thinking about this issue. Geeeez, I've got a headache, I think I'll go lay down for a minute.

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Le durachdan, Don.

Thies · Post by **Thies** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 3:16 am

TheSpoonMan wrote:And I've seen "das Bagpipe" (neuter) too

Never heard of that ... did I miss something in school ??? But the German language takes strange paths from time to time.
In German the gender of composited words is in this case depending to the ending: Dudel-sack --> der Sack --> masculine; Sack-pfeife --> die Pfeife --> feminine.
/TiE

Uilliam · Post by **Uilliam** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 5:52 am

Mine are Bi..they have male and female connections.This is one o the daftest topics yet.

Slán
Uilliam

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 6:28 am

Uilliam wrote:This is one o the daftest topics yet.
Slán
Uilliam

... why, yes, yes it is.

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