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bjeanneb

2005-04-04, 12:23 pm

We may be shunned by the group for TMI about bagpipes. I have books that
show very exotic types but have never actually seen one using a real animal
skin that still looks like an animal skin. Of all the people I know, there
is only one who actually likes the bagpipe sound and he likes it so much
that he owns a chanter. But then, he's one of my most unusual friends. Do
you know whether pipes were used in Poland in battle to frighten the enemy
in battle? That is the story for Scottish pipes and if I recall correctly,
Mel Gibson's Braveheart portrayed that. I know I'd run if I heard a group
of pipers coming up over a hill. That story is probably equally believed
and disbelieved. Thanks for the info about Polish pipes. There seems to be
a great deal of regional variation, probably a nationalistic manifestation
of fierce pride in local heritage.

Enough about pipes. Ron Vick had many words of praise to say about Kris
Zaklika. Were your ears tingling?

Jeanne

RonaldV

2005-04-04, 12:23 pm

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:33:52 -0600, "bjeanneb" <bjeanneb@satx.rr.com>
wrote:

>
>We may be shunned by the group for TMI about bagpipes. I have books that
>show very exotic types but have never actually seen one using a real animal
>skin that still looks like an animal skin. Of all the people I know, there
>is only one who actually likes the bagpipe sound and he likes it so much
>that he owns a chanter. But then, he's one of my most unusual friends. Do
>you know whether pipes were used in Poland in battle to frighten the enemy
>in battle? That is the story for Scottish pipes and if I recall correctly,
>Mel Gibson's Braveheart portrayed that. I know I'd run if I heard a group
>of pipers coming up over a hill. That story is probably equally believed
>and disbelieved. Thanks for the info about Polish pipes. There seems to be
>a great deal of regional variation, probably a nationalistic manifestation
>of fierce pride in local heritage.
>
>Enough about pipes. Ron Vick had many words of praise to say about Kris
>Zaklika. Were your ears tingling?
>
>Jeanne
>
>

If I'm not mistaken, I believe the classic Egyptians had an instrument
much like the bagpipe, but I don't think it had the 'Drone' pipe.

Heck, without the drone pipe, a bagpipe could be considered a 'One Man
pump organ'.

I'm not so sure it was the sound of the pipes that scared.... The
scotch have always had a reputation as fierce fighters. The only way
they were ever conquered was by using the clan rivals to get them to
fight among themselves.

In WW2, the nazis called the kilted scotch the 'Ladies from Hades'.

Kris Zaklika

2005-04-04, 12:23 pm

RonaldV wrote:
[snip]

> In WW2, the nazis called the kilted scotch the 'Ladies from Hades'.

When I visited the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Museum
in Stirling Castle (http://www.argylls.co.uk/) I learned that
the term was applied to this regiment in World War I. I don't
think anyone was wearing kilts in battle by the time of WWII.
(In WWI they actually had army green outer skirts to cover the
tartan kilt.) http://www.argylls.co.uk/ashph/ww1men.jpeg

Adriaan Barel

2005-04-04, 12:23 pm

You mean "Scots"

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> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:33:52 -0600, "bjeanneb" <bjeanneb@satx.rr.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> If I'm not mistaken, I believe the classic Egyptians had an instrument
> much like the bagpipe, but I don't think it had the 'Drone' pipe.
>
> Heck, without the drone pipe, a bagpipe could be considered a 'One Man
> pump organ'.
>
> I'm not so sure it was the sound of the pipes that scared.... The
> scotch have always had a reputation as fierce fighters. The only way
> they were ever conquered was by using the clan rivals to get them to
> fight among themselves.
>
> In WW2, the nazis called the kilted scotch the 'Ladies from Hades'.
>
>
>

RonaldV

2005-04-04, 12:23 pm

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 05:05:59 +1000, "Adriaan Barel"
<apbarel@REMOVEbigpond.net.au> wrote:

>
>You mean "Scots"

Hey, any group of people that make a sport of tossing tree trunks
around has my utmost respect!

Ron

bjeanneb

2005-04-04, 12:23 pm

> If I'm not mistaken, I believe the classic Egyptians had an instrument
> much like the bagpipe, but I don't think it had the 'Drone' pipe.

I'm looking at a book, an encyclopedia of musical instruments of the world,
and it has a map of the distribution of bagpipes. It shows northern Africa,
middle east, eastern and western Europe and up into the British Isles.
Nothing about Egypt but it's not inconceivable since they were all around
the area.

> Heck, without the drone pipe, a bagpipe could be considered a 'One Man
> pump organ'.

Yes, the typical organ does have some reed pipes.

> I'm not so sure it was the sound of the pipes that scared.... The
> scotch have always had a reputation as fierce fighters. The only way
> they were ever conquered was by using the clan rivals to get them to
> fight among themselves.

They were pretty rough and tough, weren't they?

> In WW2, the nazis called the kilted scotch the 'Ladies from Hades'

I've never heard that but I love it! Imagine the fury that epithet would
have produced!

Jeanne