Posted on 03/13/2021 6:57:15 PM PST by nickcarraway
Terry Hartzell, band member of Piper's Request, stopped by virtually Saturday morning to talk all things bagpipes and the difference between Highland bagpipes vs. Uileann bagpipes.
"A lot of the pipes you hear in movie soundtracks, and even the Scottish movies, or Scottish themed movies, the pipes you hear are the Uileann pipes," Hartzell explains. "They are quieter, more melodic."
Hartzell also played a tune for our viewers, similar to the pipes heard in popular blockbuster movie Titanic.
For more information on the band, visit pipersrequest.com.
Bagpipes are blown into to make the sound.
Uileann pipes use a bellows under the arm to inflate the bag. Also, bending and stopping of individual notes is possible, making the sound more violin-like. And of course, the piper can sing in accompaniment.
One more thing: “Uilleann” is pronounced “illin’”, as in the Run-DMC “hit” I heard way too much during my time living in the city . . .
For some interesting bagpipe music, YouTube has several songs by Archie Jay, The Snake Charmer. She is an Indian woman that does bagpipe versions of all sorts of songs. Enter Sandman is one of my favorites.
You mean there's an even more obnoxious bagpipe?
There’s the Northumbrian bagpipe, which is higher-pitched than the Highland one.
Remember Uileann is Irish for elbow.
My understanding is the Uilleann pipes are associated more with Irish music.
I can take bagpipes in short doses.
Young Scot moves to NY and within a week calls his mother wanting to move back to Scotland.
Ma, these New Yorkers are terrible.
My neighbors are always banging on the wall and ceiling at all hours of the day and night. Yelling and banging. Its terrible. I can barely hear my bagpipe practice with the commotion and yelling drowning them out.
Insert octopus and bagpipe joke here.
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Uilleann has two ‘l’s
You know, all these years I thought it was by the Beastie Boys...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19tjJ0G-8V4
Thunderstruck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g50Un5QD2u0
Bagpipes and Uilleann Pipes Duet
(one is inflated by blowing into it
the other is inflated by an armpit bellows)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNhWxH_NUh8
“You mean there’s an even more obnoxious bagpipe?”
There is no bagpipe more obnoxious than the ones I heard at Mitchell’s Fish Market, a few years go. They were loud and having to listen to them spoiled my meal. I haven’t been there since.
Don’t like bagpipes, never have never will.
I’ve seen bagpipers performing in Estonia.
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