Posted on 01/29/2009 6:58:27 AM PST by Newster
Maybe they were thinking of Swedish.
I'm going to the Irish Festival this year and get me a lesson in Irish Gaelic!
That's a real possibility.
LOL!
That’s possible ;o)
From what I know of him so far, I would expect only the unexpected from him and encourage it wholeheartedly.
;o]
Maybe I should put Pat in charge of toilet-training Vlad. This is a situation where the mind-control gesturing and humming would really be a benefit.
We went to one just across the Pennsylvania line last year.
They had *shudder* bagpipes.
bIlujlaHbe’chugh bIQaplaHbe’.
To the Irish, they are “bagpipes.” To the Scots, they are “War Pipes!”
c'mon! Were's your sense of fun?
Be careful! You can overdose on that stuff.
Och lass, the ways in thaat the Cumri [Welsh] aun the Scots (Gael or nae) speik English is muckle unalik, aun muckle unalik the Sassenach an aw! [Scots, not Gaelic]
The Scots were likely speaking Scots, a sister language very close to English, and their accent speaking English would be hugely different from the Welsh.
And even Scots has a huge variation. During our tour in 1996, LoM and I had little trouble with either the southeastern Scots dialect, as well as the Gaidhealtachd dialect (Gaelic-speaking region to the northwest), but on the streets of Glasgow we met a young lady who was (my guess) apparently from the north-east of Glasgow and we could barely understand each other at all. (She thought we were Glaswegians and was asking directions.)
All by way of saying that if you offer an iPod to a computer in English, with all its pronunciations, don't be surprised if you get either sex or a pony. (And if all you get is a shovel start digging -- there must be a pony in there somewhere.)
If they were actual animals, the EPA would make those people stop abusing them.
Too late...
*ahem*
There is a difference between the little Irish bagpipes and the robust Scottish War pipes. But don’t get me started!! LOL!
LOL!!!!!!
I Never heard the Irish Pipies before, Only the Scottish pipes
As well you should (shudder). Uillean (elbow) pipes, aka Union pipes. "Sit in your chair in the pub" pipes, not "march into the face of the enemy to get shot dead and have the place named after you" pipes like the Great Highland Bagpipes.
Some twisted ******* chose to use Uillean pipes for "Rob Roy" and "Braveheart" (except in the ceili scene where I recall they actually used traditional smallpipes).
Seriously, I enjoy Irish pipes. The most modern of the bagpipe family; an instrument whose variations are native from Ireland to France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Russian, Macedonia, and perhaps to India.
But it's always fun to watch an Irish piper:
1) He starts and continues the whole time by pumping the bellows under his right arm, out-and-in.
2) To keep the air pressure to the reeds constant, his left arm (with the bag under it), moves in-and-out, somewhat in coordination with the right arm. (If the air pressure on the reeds varies, the pitch varies. A Bad Thing.)
3) To play the basic melodic line, his fingers move off an onto the "chanter" (the stick in his hands).
4) To move into higher registers (octaves), there is usually a valve at the base of the chanter, closed when brought down on a surface, usually a piece of hide draped on the player's right leg.
Do you get the image thus far? Both arms are going in and out, both hands are fingering the chanter, and the hands & chanter are moving up & down. But wait, there's more...
5) The Irish piper has a bunch of specialixed drones (called "regulators") that can be turned on by depressing keys with the outside edge of his right-hand chanter-playing-hand. These add the extra chords you hear in Irish-pipe music.
But the visual image is amusing. Pump and pump to supply air, the melody starts with the fingering, then the flapping with the additional elements -- by the time the Irish piper comes into his element you almost expect him to become airborne like an early flying machine.
Just a Highland Piper's perspective.
But God bless the Uillean pipes and their players.
Too much information...
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