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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">===========================================<br>
L O W L A N D S - L - 04 March 2009 - Volume 05<br>
===========================================</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
From: <span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span></span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L "Etymology" 2009.03.04 (04) [E]</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">An Irishman
once insisted to me that they invented bagpipes - as a joke, which the Scots
haven't got yet.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Actually,
as you say, a very ancient and widespread instrument. I've heard
Hungarian and Swedish ones, amongst others.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Paul</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Derby</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(which has
no native bagpipe as far as I know)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">----------<br>
<br>
From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>>
<br>
Subject: Music<br>
<br>
Folks,<br>
<br>
Historically, bagpipes are indeed found in most parts of Europe as well as in parts
of North Africa and in West Asia all the way via Arabia and Iran to India. There
are claims that bagpipes were played in Ancient China but later fell into
disuse.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
The Roman <i>tibia utricularis</i>, a type of <i>aulein</i> (pipe) Emperor Nero
(37-68) is reported to have been able to play "with mouth and armpit," is widely assumed
to be a type of bagpipe. Furthermore, there are claims that Greeks played
bagpipes before the common era. No details are known about bagpipes
prior to the Middle Ages and Renaissance at which time they became very popular
and remained so in folk music until the end of the 19th century. Most bagpipes produce very loud sounds. Perhaps this is one of the reasons for them having been choice instruments accompanying (noisy) peasant dances in earlier times.<br>
<br>
We know, among others from engravings and paintings, that bagpipes were
commonly played in what are now Belgium
and the Netherlands, also in
the southern parts of Germany.
Personally I do not associate them with Northern Germany's part of the Lowlands. But apparently bagpipes used to be played there
as well. For instance, The chanter of a 13th-century bagpipe of the <i>Hümmelchen</i>
type was found in the area of Husum (Hüsem) in Northern
Friesland, Schleswig-Holstein. (The <i>Hümmelchen</i> came into
its own in the Renaissance but may have existed earlier.) In fact, the German word <i>Hümmelchen</i> for
this seemingly smaller version of the <i>Schäferpfeifen</i> ("shepherds
pipes") with a softer, more buzzing sound, is apparently not the
diminutive form of <i>Hummel</i> 'bumblebee' but was derived from </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>hemeln ~ hämeln</i>
~ <i>humeln</i> 'to truncate', 'to shorten', 'to lop', in</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Middle Saxon
("Middle Low German"), the language of the north.<br>
<br>
I understand some people claim that bagpipes were invented in Thrace. Be this
as it may, assuming a connection with early shepherding cultures seems
reasonable considering that the bag seems to have begun as (and in many cases
remains to be) an intact goat's or sheep's skin and especially loud sounds carried
over long distances are a common feature of Eurasia's pastoral instruments and
singing styles. Given indications that some forms of bagpipes existed already
in Classical Greek times, I hardly think we can really determine where this
type of instrument was first invented. For all we know, it may have been
invented in an area in which its use came to be discontinued a long time ago. (See
my first paragraph.)<br>
<br>
Because of their iconic status, bagpipes are nowadays only associated with
Hiberno-British cultures in popular cultures. Most people are surprised to find
out about the true extent of this type of instrument. I would even go as far as
suggesting we consider it a Eurasia
instrument. (I do not think there are equivalents in traditional American and
Oceanic cultures.)<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA</span></p>
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