Bagpipes

[OLD fashioned preacher]

We had a visitor from Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada and he learned that my eldest son (our song leader at church) plays bagpipes and asked him to play. David was having reed problems and the camera wasn't shifted until a third of the way in - but here is a video. Maybe a better one can be posted later.

 

 

 

[Alan]

Amen! Glad to hear some Christian songs on bagpies. Thanks.

[Jim_Alaska]

Well done for having reed problems. I look forward to another video when you can post it.

[DaveW]

Love the bagpipes...........

[No Nicolaitans]

Does he have any CD's of his bagpipe music? I'd like to order one if he does!

[OLD fashioned preacher]

David says there only 5 songs written for bagpipes -- and 3 of them are Amazing Grace.

He played for a pipe-band for years (a group of Independent Baptist pipers) but they became too interested in entertainment so he left them. Though he occasionally plays Scotland the Brave, he plays exclusively hymns. He took his pipes to Honduras once -- the Honduran folk LOVED it!! (Personally, neither I nor his mother care for bagpipes)

Nope, no CDs have been made.

[No Nicolaitans]

50 minutes ago, OLD fashioned preacher said:

(Personally, neither I nor his mother care for bagpipes)

HERESY!

[DaveW]

4 hours ago, No Nicolaitans said:

HERESY!

No, it's not hearsay - he said it himself!

[No Nicolaitans]

After considering OFP's statement...without knowing their reason(s) for not caring for bagpipes...I could imagine that listening to a child learning and practicing the bagpipes could be quite (what's the proper word)...excruciating...indeed!

[DaveW]

Practicing the actual tunes is done only with the finger pipe and a reed, which is a lot quieter.

But of course there is still need to practice the blowing and armwork of the bellows, and there is no way to do that quietly.

(Note: I know only enough about this to be dangerous, and no doubt there are proper names for the things I mentioned that are different to the terms I have used).

[Ukulelemike]

When I was in the Navy, I was stationed for three years on a refueling ship. When we went out for cruise, one of the other smaller ships had a bagpipe player on it, who, while we were doing underway replenishment, (that's refueling while moving for your land lubbers), he would stand on an upper deck and play the pipes. It was amazing that as loud as the work was, we could still hear the tune of the pipes. Cool and kind of eerie.

[OLD fashioned preacher]

3 hours ago, No Nicolaitans said:

After considering OFP's statement...without knowing their reason(s) for not caring for bagpipes...I could imagine that listening to a child learning and practicing the bagpipes could be quite (what's the proper word)...excruciating...indeed!

Well it sure ain't due to the volume -- I like banjo.

I just don't care for the sound (I don't like organs either), my wife doesn't like harmonica because she says it sounds like a whiny child. Oh, David plays fiddle, too. That's worse on the ears while they are learning than bagpipes ever thought of being.

1 hour ago, DaveW said:

Practicing the actual tunes is done only with the finger pipe and a reed, which is a lot quieter.

But of course there is still need to practice the blowing and armwork of the bellows, and there is no way to do that quietly.

(Note: I know only enough about this to be dangerous, and no doubt there are proper names for the things I mentioned that are different to the terms I have used).

While the chanter is quieter, it is still rather loud -- unless you have a set of uilleann pipes (a sort of "parlor pipe").

[OLD fashioned preacher]

1 hour ago, Ukulelemike said:

When I was in the Navy, I was stationed for three years on a refueling ship. When we went out for cruise, one of the other smaller ships had a bagpipe player on it, who, while we were doing underway replenishment, (that's refueling while moving for your land lubbers), he would stand on an upper deck and play the pipes. It was amazing that as loud as the work was, we could still hear the tune of the pipes. Cool and kind of eerie.

That's why bagpipes were utilized on the battlefield. They can be heard above the noise of battle, in fact -- there was a bagpiper on one of the LCVPs that landed on Sword Beach during the D-Day invasion of France in 1944.

[Ukulelemike]

Always wanted to play, but not real coordinated, so I play ukulele, possibly one of the easiest instruments out there.

[No Nicolaitans]

On 8/29/2016 at 3:16 PM, Ukulelemike said:

Always wanted to play, but not real coordinated, so I play ukulele, possibly one of the easiest instruments out there.

An easy instrument to play without the need for coordination...the kazoo!

Believe it or not, I was able to play one the very first time I ever picked one up...and never took a single lesson either...