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To: kabumpo

Bagpipes, only a people like the once-ultra conservative Scots, would be so keen about preserving shrill irritating to the ear bagpipes! Far as I can tell, they are the only people and their Hibernerian kin the Irish and Iberian Spanish) on earth who play them, and make such a big deal of them.

I have tried to trace the origin of bagpipes, so far, I have not been successful. It would solve the issue of their true origin.


59 posted on 07/13/2013 2:49:39 PM PDT by sasportas
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To: sasportas

“Their” true origin. What I meant was if we knew from whence came the bagpipes we would know the true origin of the Scots and Hibernerian types.


60 posted on 07/13/2013 2:52:45 PM PDT by sasportas
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Bagpipes are played as traditional instruments in Anatolia, Poland, Persia, the mountains of central Italy, northwestern France, and Romania (and probably other areas that I don’t know about). The instrument dates to neolithic times and was once common all across Europe.

And I wouldn’t call the pipes shrill. I love a good pipe tune. If I were wealthy I would have my own personal piper.


66 posted on 07/13/2013 3:19:20 PM PDT by Renfield (Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
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To: sasportas

Oh, and the Berbers in North Africa play the pipes too.


67 posted on 07/13/2013 3:21:19 PM PDT by Renfield (Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
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