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Gypsy
Social climber
NC
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The funnest rope swing ever--somewhere in the Marin Headlands.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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So I guess we are on time for the ceilli, Gypsy. Cool beans!
I'm intrigued, curious, and wondering about the piper in that song.
Is he playing a Musette de cour or is it a Biniou?
there is not the drone of the Scots pipes, and I don't think that it could be the Germanic version of the pipes, either, though I've never heard the doodlewhack or whatevre.
Qui est-il?
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Gypsy
Social climber
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It is always described as a cornemuse--which is really just the french word for bagpipe. He is Breton, so probably some sort of biniou. Every country in Europe except Norway had a bagpipe at one time. They lost popularity when the accordion was invented. The Swedish pipe is called the sacpipa, the hungarian is the duda, the romanian is the cimpoii, the Italian is zampona, the Bulgarian gaida, the Spanish gaita. In the British isles there are a lot of pipes besides the Scottish warpipes. There are the Northumbrian small pipes, there is the uillean pipes of Ireland, etc.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loïc_Taillebrest
Here is a beauty of a song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEZH2B3LHk0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Céilidh
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Gypsy
Social climber
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A nearby neighbor of the past three years here in the mountains of Appalachia was a bagpipe maker and player. I often heard him playing his pipes. When my friend Karen visited me two years ago I took her down to meet him. She plays the Bulgarian gaida and is one of the few women gaida players in the world. We had a wonderful afternoon with him swapping stories. About a month ago, he got up during the night and went out to the woods behind his house and shot himself in the head.
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Gypsy
Social climber
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The Norwegians don't need a bagpipe--who needs that when you have the hardingfele and dances like Telespringar and Valdres springar Which besides the Mezoseg of Hungary are my favorite dances in the world to do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCipUC2iqkk
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Well Gypsy those are some great songs there. I guess I'm covered since one set of grandparents are Scottish, but what are the Finnish pipes?
"Norwegians don't need a bagpipe" - Michele is gonna be happy to hear that.
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Gypsy
Social climber
NC
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Säkkipilli
Well I always say that when the languages were distributed, Welsh got all the consonants and Finnish got all the vowels.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Svenskin in a danskin it's complicated doing some things.
Now trouble's over, I am in deep green clover
Worry back in its cage where the bud bird sings
Sackbutts and tympans, kazoos and tin cans
A bagpipe from Sergipe and a hornpipe from a coasting vessel
Joined by a band of howler monkeys go together like chopsticks and learning the piano
Like Bukowski and Budweiser
Here's a fine set of Brazilian pipes. One's the tamarin, the other's the marmoset. You have to play these with a great deal of passion, as in most Brazilian musical expressions. They almost sound alive, sometimes. Have you ever heard a mambo played on the tamarin with concerti?
Boby Di Lan, the piper from Sergipe, is a fan of the tamarin. The marmoset, he says, is too heavy for marching and it's not comfortable without eating a large meal, so it's tough getting them in exactly the right mood for playing. So the tamarin's by far the more popular than ORGAN GRINDER'S MONKEY!*
* Jaybro, you thought I would forget. HAH!
edit: I'ts getning cnonfusining arounded here. zBrown Jaybro rrider Fffos-fossil climber LL LL t*r & Yeebus E. G-bus
I'm half in the BAG! Sex on the internet, no te dije!
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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thanks Marlow (my mom, not a big music listener had a Sebelius CD). I have a little container of dirt from the family farm there in Jalasjärvi, just down the road apiece (24 km) from Kurikka where Jakob and Hedvig lived before moving to Ironwood MI. Little known facts, but true nonetheless.
lonesome organ grinder
lonesome sparrow
lonesome hobo
lonesome when you go
lonesome whistle
lonesome death
lonesome day
lonesome town (B. Knight)
aahm so lonesome I could cry
Pancho needs your prayers it's true
But save a few for Ricky too
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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did someone request some car related stuff?
HOT ROD LINCOLN (Charlie Ryan)
Rick's 1958 Cadillac
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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PALE BLUE ALERT! (vaguely climbing-referenced remarks)
"If the fight gets hot, the songs get hotter. If the fight gets tough, the songs get toughter."
"It don't pay to organize unless you are organized."
"There's several ways of saying what's on your mind. And in states and counties where it aint't too healthy to talk too loud, speak your mind, or even vote like you want to, folks have found other ways of getting the word around. One of the mainest ways is by singing....No matter who makkes it up, no matter who sings it and who don't, if it talks the lingo of the people, it's a cinch to catch on, and will be sung here and yonder for a long time after you've cashed inyour chips."
"When the going gets weird, the weird get going."
"The bagpipe music got me jonesing for a single malt so I got some."
Which of the quotes above is not from WBraun? (Merry's quote)
Which one is bogus? (WBraun's)
Which one is not the quote you were seeking? (all the above)
Which one is Weird Al's? (who?)
Which is Bob Dylan's favorite? (not a clue)
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