[sionnsar]

Interesting. He's playing a set of "right-handed" pipes; very unusual. (The picture is not reversed because his left hand is on the top of the chanter.)

[sionnsar]

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[decal]

Well, you've undoubtedly seen pix of medieval pipers with the bag under the right arm. There's no problem playing in place that way, but I wouldn't want to march doing that ;)

[Chode]

i can't imagine what jazz sounds like on the pipes, but it must be amazing...

[Candor7]

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[Candor7]

Being a saxophonist and a piper, I am struck by the fact that his right hand playing of the chanter is very much in the same position as a sax would be. Very strange but probably allowed for an expressive transfer of skills from the sax to the pipes, although the instruments are nothnig alike in terms of coordination

As an aside I was recently at the Antigonish, Nova Scotia Highland Games, and got to see several seated pipers, play with the chanter held directly in front between the legs, with a very circular form of the arms, which surprisingly gives a lot of diaphram strength to blow.

Some of these seated pipers played jigs and reels for over twenty minutes without stopping, as required for dance sets, accompanied by fiddles.

[Redleg Duke]

I am a leftie and I have my pipe hung on my right shoulder. I was born polydactal and when the docs removed my right extra finger, they left the internal bone structure, which limited my right hand extension. It hurt to play right-handed, so I became a "ham-fisted" piper.

[Tribune7]

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