Pachelbel Canon on the pipes: any tips?

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Next stop, J. S. Bach's two and three part inventions. :lol:
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I've been asking Joe to play Flight of the Bumblebee on the pipes for years!
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reedbiter wrote:I've been asking Joe to play Flight of the Bumblebee on the pipes for years!
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Re: Pachelbel Canon on the pipes: any tips?

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Joseph E. Smith wrote:Next stop, J. S. Bach's two and three part inventions. :lol:
Well I don't know about that, but I and another piper played the well-known Bach bouree and it sounds pretty darn good on the pipes. (You need all your keys.)

Good music is good music, and Bach seems to translate amazingly well to nearly any instrument. I've heard Bach played by a steel drum ensemble in Trinidad and by a koto ensemble in Japan and it's all good.

And of course Jerry O Sullivan has demonstrated how well Bach goes on the pipes.
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pancelticpiper wrote:
Joseph E. Smith wrote:Next stop, J. S. Bach's two and three part inventions. :lol:

Good music is good music, and Bach seems to translate amazingly well to nearly any instrument. I've heard Bach played by a steel drum ensemble in Trinidad and by a koto ensemble in Japan and it's all good.

And of course Jerry O Sullivan has demonstrated how well Bach goes on the pipes.
Bela Fleck (sp?) has done some amazing things with Bach as well.
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