Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
Today, 07:15 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 237
Re: A New History of the Bagpipes Video
He calls himself an "antiquarian" (not an archaeologist).
The beginning wasn't promising, when he misspelt "origin".
But mostly these are the same things I've been saying for 30 years. More...
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Forum: Technique & Instrument
Yesterday, 07:09 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 679
Re: Teachers and diaphragm vibrato
Here's a little video I did a while back demonstrating four different ways of doing vibrato on whistle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK9RmMnDuPA
All would work on practice chanter or any...
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Forum: Beer Tent
02-15-2019, 06:18 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 655
Re: For the piper who has everything - a Chair!
There's an Irish guy who now lives here in Southern California, Gabriel McKeagney, professional woodworker who plays uilleann pipes, who made a chair for pipers:
https://i.imgur.com/RN25cpv.jpg
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Forum: Teacher's Lounge
02-14-2019, 05:36 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 690
Re: Over thinking the movements
Oh for sure.
It's a bit odd that Highland piping stresses reading to the extent that there are very good pipers who can't pick up a tune by ear.
And also a bit odd that uilleann piping (and...
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Forum: Beer Tent
02-14-2019, 05:12 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 858
Re: Your own funeral
I want this friend of mine, a fantastic jazz clarinetist, to play with a small combo
St James Infirmary
New Orleans
Lazy River
Closer Walk
Stranger on the Shore
Over the Rainbow
I've...
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Forum: Pipe Bands
02-11-2019, 04:51 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 444
Re: How many gigs?
Our band does few gigs, a handful a year, only ones that pay well enough to make it worth it.
There used to be a band around here that seemed to do two or three gigs every weekend, it was crazy....
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Forum: Adult Pipers
02-11-2019, 04:46 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 2,815
Re: Old Dogs... New Tricks?
Back in the late 1970s when our band was playing wood Hardies with moulded reeds (were ridge-cut reeds around yet?) the G# fingering that worked was
o|xxo|xxxo
(finger E and lift the thumb) or...
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Forum: Teacher's Lounge
02-09-2019, 02:49 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 690
Re: Over thinking the movements
There's this article, which if I understand it correctly doesn't dispute that there are different learning modalities, but says that studies suggest that students learn with similar efficiency...
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Forum: Technique & Instrument
02-08-2019, 07:14 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 2,194
Re: New Pipemaker: Alexander Graham
Interesting! Is Doug retiring? Or moving elsewhere?
He was making some of the most interesting pipes I've seen. He has a great "eye" for shape and proportion.
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Forum: Music
02-08-2019, 07:09 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 551
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Forum: Technique & Instrument
02-08-2019, 06:28 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,102
Re: Help Improving Band Tuning
This jumped out to my eye.
In all the bands I've been in over the years tuning has been a continuous and ever-present component of every practice.
The practice nearest the contest isn't...
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Forum: Technique & Instrument
02-08-2019, 05:52 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 2,194
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Forum: Adult Pipers
02-08-2019, 04:18 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 2,815
Re: Old Dogs... New Tricks?
I feel these two are important concepts not only for elderly players but also for many "adult beginners" who start the pipes in middle age.
I was amazed when I heard a Fire Department band, made...
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Forum: Technique & Instrument
02-06-2019, 06:37 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 2,469
Re: "B" Flat Set up
Isn't there an orchestral work that uses pipes, that was written for the pipes being in the key of A?
I wonder if it was the composer not knowing that the pipes are a transposing instrument.
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Forum: Technique & Instrument
02-02-2019, 03:35 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,102
Re: Help Improving Band Tuning
What's revolutionized our band's tuning process is the Pipe Major getting the Braw Tuner app.
He pulls the pipers out of the circle one at a time, takes them in a side room, and just has them...
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Forum: Beer Tent
02-02-2019, 03:19 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,352
Re: Pakistani Bagpipe Challenge
There are wider and deeper things I'd like to drop the Pakistani drones into.
Seriously though, I've had newbies come over with Pakistani pipes and it was possible to get the drones to sort of...
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Forum: Beer Tent
02-02-2019, 03:17 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,352
Re: Pakistani Bagpipe Challenge
1) waste of money that I could use on something useful
2) waste of my time
3) waste of band time
About #2, it's like the saying "never try to teach a pig to sing. Pigs can't sing, and it...
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Forum: Uilleann, Northumbrian, Smallpipes +
01-30-2019, 08:10 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 575
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Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
01-30-2019, 07:56 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 587
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Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
01-29-2019, 07:03 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 587
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Forum: Beer Tent
01-22-2019, 08:27 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 1,820
Re: Sharpness War
That's an interesting twist!
Especially because so many players are playing old drones which were designed to play around A=450 to A=460, or modern copies of those drones.
I was playing in...
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Forum: Technique & Instrument
01-19-2019, 05:52 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 3,974
Re: Drone reeds "double toning"?
Our local Grade One band piper and piping judge Charlie Lumsden used to make little spring-steel gizmos you slide inside a cane bass drone reed to spring the tongue open a bit. You can slide the...
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Forum: Competition Results
01-19-2019, 05:18 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 919
Re: San Diego results
I just went on the WUSPBA site and just get an error message when I click on the San Diego 2018 Pipe Band results.
A Google search didn't find the full results anywhere... they must be online...
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Forum: Photo and Video Gallery
01-18-2019, 02:56 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 747
Re: Youngest bagpiper?
And he's playing in 11/8.
One of those Balkan "additive rhythms" which in this case can be expressed as
2+2+3+2+2/8
I was out of a Highland Games and was chatting with some piper about...
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Forum: Technique & Instrument
01-18-2019, 02:47 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,413
Re: An epiphany: blowing tone
Yes that's the wonderful thing about the pipes when every note of the chanter is dialed in and the blowing is steady: each note has a unique interaction with the harmonics produced by the drones.
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