LL-L "Music" 2009.03.05 (05) [E]

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From: heatherrendall at tiscali.co.uk <heatherrendall at tiscali.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Music" 2009.03.05 (02) [E]



From: Heather Rendall  heatherrendall at tiscali.co.uk



Mike wrote



"Hmmm, maybe they were taken back to the Gaeltacht as a souvenir for
relatives by Celts passing through Thrace as they went back home from Cetlic
Galatia (in Turkey) for the summer holidays "



It has always struck me as an interesting coincidence that the Greeks and
the Celts share the bagpipes and very pleated skirts for men.

:-)   Heather



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From: Tom Mc Rae <thomas.mcrae at bigpond.com>
Subject: LL-L "Music" 2009.03.05 (02) [E]



On 06/03/2009, at 1:36 AM,  Wesley Parish <wes.parish at paradise.net.nz>wrote:



I can believe that - the Irish and the Northumbrians both hit on the idea of
putting the arm to work in pumping the bag with a bellows instead of
puffinginto it like the rest of the world.



The Scottish "small pipes" are also played via bellows, probably of
Northumbrian origin but remember Northumbria was part and parcel of

Scotland for centuries. There are also the Great or War Pipes huge items
with a great blast. One Scots border town (Peebles ?) employed a Great Piper

to awaken the people early each morning until riots forced them to desist.
That set of pipes were on show in the

old Antiquarian Museum in Edinburgh and Robin Williamson had a set made up
based on that design. I heard him "play" the thing and it had a diabolical
blast,

no wonder the people rioted.



Regards

Tom Mc Rae

Brisbane

AUSTRALIA

"Oh wad some power the Giftie gie us,

Tae see oorsels as ithers see us

Robert Burns

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