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Willeke

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Re: Slinging to Music
Reply #15 - Nov 27^th, 2005 at 12:53am

Gard,
I do agree with you.
I like a lot of folk music. And there is such a wide range in folk music, there is something for every one. I even know a hardrockfolk band. They do folk music the rough way and I love it.
Here is a link to there website. There are also some samples there.
http://www.omnia-neocelt.com/index2.html

But I do also like a lot of other music.

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lobohunter Interfector Viris Spurii Offline where be a rock and a string there be a sling Posts: 1945 Cottage Grove or Gender:	Re: Slinging to Music Reply #16 - Nov 27^th, 2005 at 2:38am I think you should sling to queen. such titles as another one bites the dust. Somebody going to get hurt tonight lol
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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: Slinging to Music Reply #17 - Nov 27^th, 2005 at 10:14am Hey Gard! I'm a piper also. Do they have many pipers in Norway?
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Re: Slinging to Music
Reply #18 - Nov 27^th, 2005 at 2:40pm

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The problem about people is that they haven't listened to folk music, and they just say that they don't like it. Most people that say like you don't even know how bagpipe sounds like, even though they "hate" it. They wouldn't recognize bagpipe if they heard.
Hope this wasn't too much, but if it's something I really hate, it's people that judge traditional music before they've tried to like it

Gard

See. I was afraid of this. I think you misunderstood what I meant. Not too long ago, really, the Scots used the bagpipes as a weapon of war, to whip their own soldiers into a frenzy. On me, it has the same effect as it would on a Scotsman standing on the battlefield. I gain courage and strength from its sound. I become unstoppable (at least in my mind) and just hearing themn arouses in me a feeling almost undescribable, but something very deep; songs like "Scotland the Brave" in particular. I don't hate the bagpipes. On the contrary, they're probably my favourite instrument, followed by the didjeridu. The sound has an effect on me though, that's noticable if you're in my vicinity when they're playing. And I happen to love Irish and Scottish Folk music. In fact, I'm known at work for being heard to sing scottish and irish folk songs while I work.
Oh, and did I forget to mention the bumper sticker on the back of my truck that reads "Blow it out your bagpipes"?

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Re: Slinging to Music
Reply #19 - Nov 27^th, 2005 at 4:09pm

The bagpipe was used as the signal orcestras today in many countries, where they play trumpet and blowing instruments like that.
They played tunes to keep up the moral at the soldiers, NOT to make them crazy and freak out.
Why was the bagpipe used to dancing in royal balls, to whip the dancers into a frenzy?
There are loads of retreat marches on the bagpipe, so...they were made to make the soldiers go crazy on themself?
The bagpipe was used in whole Europe, how could it if everybody went crazy when they heard the sound?

Bigkahuna: There are not many bagpipers in Norway, I know only one, and he's a scot.
Just some days ago I got a letter with a picture of a beatiful old oven. This oven had a motive of a Norwegian bagpiper playing to dance. I believe from looking at the picture that they were dancing a parhalling. The bagpipe was used quite much in Norway long time ago.

Gard

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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: Slinging to Music Reply #20 - Nov 27^th, 2005 at 8:37pm In the 1740s a piper in Scotland was put to death for playing the Bagpipes which were classified by parliament as a weapon of war.This was just after the Battle of Culloden and the end of the Jacobite rebellion. I wonder if any of the Scots used slings?
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Douglas_The_Black Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Hakkaa päälle! Posts: 3491 Salineville Ohio Gender:	Re: Slinging to Music Reply #21 - Nov 28^th, 2005 at 10:56am i think so, there was a post on scot, sling ammo. these fancy carved looking things.
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AjlouniBoy Descens Offline Sling smarter, not harder! Posts: 122 Fort Worth, Texas, USA Gender:	Re: Slinging to Music Reply #22 - Nov 28^th, 2005 at 8:03pm I am a big fan of the pipes meself. Gard & Bigkahuna, is it true that it takes 7 years to learn to play them badly? AjlouniBoy
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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: Slinging to Music Reply #23 - Nov 28^th, 2005 at 8:27pm Actually it takes about 7 years just to get the darn things going. Them you have to tune them up. Kind of an oxymoron isn't it "tuned up Bagpipes"
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Douglas_The_Black Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Hakkaa päälle! Posts: 3491 Salineville Ohio Gender:	Re: Slinging to Music Reply #24 - Nov 29^th, 2005 at 8:57am i kinda like the sound of bag pipes.
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Re: Slinging to Music
Reply #25 - Nov 29^th, 2005 at 9:05am

I still only practice at the chanter, I have to get my own hardanger fiddle before I can start thinking of getting a real Great Highland Bagpipe.
The fiddle (and hardanger fiddle) is my first instrument, so I have to get that first. I'm actually borrowing a hardanger fiddle to test if before I maybe buy it. It's built of Steinkjønndalen in 1952, and I like it!
I've been thinking of getting a Smallpipe (also called Lowlandpipe and Coldwindpipe, you have a pump under your right arm instead of blowing into the bagpipe), they're tuned so that you can play together with fiddle and other C-tuned instruments.
I've only played the pipes for a year or so, so I'm not so good yet, and with lots other things to do, I don't have time to practice so much.
I was in Scotland this summer (together with my bodyguard, mom Wink

), and I tried a REAL bagpipe, but it was hard, I saw yellow dots in front of me. Grin

How long time have you been playing the pipes, Bigkahuna?

Gard

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Douglas_The_Black Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Hakkaa päälle! Posts: 3491 Salineville Ohio Gender:	Re: Slinging to Music Reply #26 - Nov 29^th, 2005 at 9:13am haha so it takes alot of lung power to play?
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Stein Vegard Descens Offline The n00b... Posts: 158 In the south of sweet, Norway Gender:	Re: Slinging to Music Reply #27 - Nov 29^th, 2005 at 12:21pm If you are a beginner, you are almost suposed to have problems with your breath.... It is very often right before you are being knocked out But that's if you are playing a normal bagpipe.... You can also get a smaller bagpipe that are almost like a normal blockflute. Stein Vegard
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Gard Senior Member Offline Yup, there are slingers in Norway too! Posts: 396 Norway Gender:	Re: Slinging to Music Reply #28 - Nov 29^th, 2005 at 3:26pm Quote: haha so it takes alot of lung power to play? Oh yeah! The one I tried was used by a 9 year old girl, so... Gard
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Douglas_The_Black Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Hakkaa päälle! Posts: 3491 Salineville Ohio Gender:	Re: Slinging to Music Reply #29 - Nov 29^th, 2005 at 5:45pm well if it was a 9 year old scottish girl dont blame yourself.
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