Bag pipes.

If you like higher tempo bagpipe sound, this band(skerryvore) is pretty good, saw them live a couple of times at folk festivals:-

Jump to just after 1hr 3 minutes, for faster bagpipe stuff, sounded great live :-


 
Our school has had a pipe band for ages. It's pretty big in South Africa and they have all sorts of gatherings for it. I love the pipes.

I did have a go and I sounded terrible. I think if you learned the recorder as a kid you would have half a chance of getting a decent tune.
 
DRW said:
If you like higher tempo bagpipe sound, this band(skerryvore) is pretty good, saw them live a couple of times at folk festivals:-

Jump to just after 1hr 3 minutes, for faster bagpipe stuff, sounded great live :-


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One a quite a number of bands coming out of the Isle of Tiree (where my father is from and where I have many relatives). The island has deep Gaelic oral song and poetry traditions going back through the centuries - Skerryvore's roots are in Hebridean Gaeldom and yes - they are excellent. See also other Tiree bands - Skipinnish and Trail West. My cousin's lad was in Trail West when they started up, and one year Paulo Nutini joined them on stage during the Tiree music festival singing some Burns (which Nutini loves)
 
Love them, witnessed and heard some fantastic Pipers.
Got one mate who does a brilliant Christmas sketch were he plays them whilst pretending to be drunk, playing them badly on purpose is an absolute skill.:):ROFLMAO:
Red Hot Chilli Pipers and Tom Walker - Leave a Light On.
 
Doon frae Troon said:
The massed pipe bands from around the world as the cross the portcullis at Edinburgh Castle Tattoo is one of the greatest sights in the world.
A lone piper playing a lament at a funeral is very touching.
A ceilidh band with a piper makes a great dance even better.
Can't stand them with a brass band...that is just sooo wrong.
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Last year we stood down the Royal Mile at the top of Johnson Terrace - just by where the massed bands and other groups end up their exit from the Castle. Standing looking up Castlehill to the castle - at first hearing them come - but not seeing them - then they come into view as they squeeze down the road marching towards us - just a thrilling sight and sound - and free :)
 
More a whistle man myself than pipes and much prefer the Uillean pipes over the bag pipes by a long way buts thats more to do with the music I grew up listening to. Had a shot of playing Uilean pipes and have a different fingering than a whistle. Nothing beats a set or 2 of Uileann pipes well played in a session.

Like any instrument in the hands of someone who has mastered them they can some amazing. Also recomend Red Hot Chilli Pipers for something different.
 
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