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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-07-06 08:54 PM
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So, do you like bagpipe music?
Here's my way to celebrate today's victory, and take some of the bandwidth load off DU.

Here is a video of my favorite piper from Galicia (Northern Spain), Susana Seivane!

(on Youtube)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fZiSTBJumMQ&mode=related&search=
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crim son Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-07-06 09:02 PM
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1. Even if you don't like bagpipe music, it's worth watching the video
to take a look at the lovely woman's ass :) Just sayin'

And I do like bagpipes. In Oregon where I spent some of my teenage years, there was a young man who lived down the street. He was mildly retarded and stayed with his parents, but he was a very fine player o' the pipes. He would walk up and down the main drag every day, playing like a crazyman. It was cool/odd. So, now I'm in Maine, and what have I discovered? Another man, older and more ragged, who walks up and down Route 1A playing his bagpipes. Still cool/odd.
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IndyBob Donating Member (216 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-07-06 09:47 PM
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2. Ya sure its not the same guy?
Not being paranoid or nothing, but a "young man" in your teenage years could very well be an "older and more ragged" guy now. :silly:

I mean, how many times does a person live next to someone who marches up and down the street, playing the pipes? In the US, this would be a rare, once in a lifetime thing. You have a stalker
:yourock:

Just kidding, of course.
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crim son Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-07-06 09:50 PM
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4. I hadn't thought of that,
but given the twists and turns of fate, Mr. Bagpipe may just be my soulmate and he is here on a cosmic mission that even he does not understand. He probably has a bad odor - it does look as though he might - which makes our eventual partnership almost a certainty. :eyes: gawd help me
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-07-06 10:13 PM
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9. Nothing wrong with Susana in that department either.
But the "gaitas" is something that I just fell in love with because it connects my Hispanic heritage to the deep Celtic roots of Boston. Makes me feel in touch with this area.

:bounce:
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-07-06 09:48 PM
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3. I love it
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Glorfindel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-07-06 09:52 PM
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5. I love bagpipe music! Always have
Thank you for posting the great video.
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QMPMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-07-06 09:53 PM
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6. I like it in limited doses. n/t
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-07-06 09:57 PM
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7. you bet'cha...
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-07-06 10:00 PM
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8. Gaw damn. take celtic music, and add Spanish sensuality. Just Gaw damn.
I'm going to buy every CD she's ever made.

Redstone
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-07-06 10:16 PM
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12. You won't be disappointed.
She is just a dammed good performer.
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-07-06 10:14 PM
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10. When it's played well...
yeah...gives me chills. The good kind.

I can't get YouTube at work anymore...I'll look for this at home.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-07-06 10:15 PM
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11. "Amazing Grace" with bagpipes is, well, amazing n/t
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OllieLotte Donating Member (495 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-11-06 07:00 PM
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53. Agreed. n/t
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 04:24 PM
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13. Kick, for those who missed it Tuesday
with all the excitement 'n everything....

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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 04:29 PM
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15. Great!
Thanks for posting! :thumbsup:
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 04:29 PM
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14. If bagpipe music is well done
It is beautiful
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 05:01 PM
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19. I've seen it both ways
I have a recording of Music of the Peoples of the Soviet Union, which includes a short piece of Estonian Bagpipe Music (sic).

That sounded like a bag full of cats, beaten with a pipe. I am not exaggerating.

On the other hand, Carlos Nuñez is a premier piper from Galicia, and has even played with the Chieftains.
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Westegg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 04:31 PM
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16. Aye, the pipes rock hard, lassie (or lad)/nt
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evlbstrd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 04:51 PM
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17. She's fantastic!
Now we've got to try to sign her up for our Irish Fest!
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 05:13 PM
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21. She has a web site:
http://www.susanaseivane.com/

I have one of her albums and it is just fantastic.



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evlbstrd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 05:18 PM
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24. That was my next stop
after watching the video. Thanks for the tip!
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 04:53 PM
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18. Now that I'm at home, I got to watch it...
She's incredible; makes it look so effortless.

Too short, though. Is it just me, or did it cut off for everyone else? The thingie showed that it should've lasted nearly ten minutes and it cut off at around two. I was disappointed...I wanted the whole ten minutes!!!

:cry:
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 05:10 PM
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20. Must be a bandwidth problem
I get the full 10 minutes, and I still want more!

There are other youtube links:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aFjQEE2XnEs&mode=related&search=
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 05:17 PM
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22. From a distance.
Those things are freaking LOUD!
I used to live across the street from a Presbyterian Church that periodically included pipers in their Sunday morning services...7am Sunday morning, to be precise.:hangover:

But when I'm awake, I love to hear them from a respectful distance...especially in a parade!
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Montauk6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 05:18 PM
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23. There was this cat named Rufus Harley who was the world's only
Edited on Thu Nov-09-06 05:18 PM by Montauk6
jazz bagpiper.



"Scotch & Soul" (Atlantic), great find.
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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 07:28 PM
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25. I love the sound of the bagpipes
Thanks for the link...great music! :D
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 01:01 PM
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43. My pleasure!
:bounce:
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 07:36 PM
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26. Amazing Grace sounds beautiful on bagpipes!!
It makes me all emotional!!
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Left Brain Donating Member (895 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 08:44 PM
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31. My BIL was a piper
He went to Scotland to play in several competitions.
He died of AIDS ten years ago. A piper friend of his played Amazing Grace at the funeral.
No words to describe the beauty of it.
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 08:54 PM
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34. Wow! I guess so! I am sorry!
:hug:
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Left Brain Donating Member (895 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 09:08 PM
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38. awww Shell
no need for sorries. We had him for 48 years, he was a jewel and we were blessed. He's with me every day, besides. No downers in the lounge, really. It's a good day, and he would be celebrating it with us!
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 09:19 PM
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39. Well, I lost a brother 10 years ago, so I know what it is like...
but you are right! Happy day in the lounge! Hell, happy day for all of DU!
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 07:51 PM
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27. The pipes touch my soul, somehow
As does Celtic music in general.

It's gotta be in my blood; that's the only thing that makes any sense.

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baby_mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 08:35 PM
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28. As a Scotsman...

I despise them with a livid passion. But this may have had something to do with the fact that I was plague with pipers through living in the centre of Edinburgh during Festival for months on end. These bloody public nuisances would begin at 7AM!

So I'm kinda turned off them. But, I have to acknowledge distantly that it's probably not their fault.
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auntAgonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 01:07 PM
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46. I too grew up in Edinburgh
Moved to Canada when 10 years old and learned to play the pipes in a marching band. I love the sound of a lone piper much more than a whole band. Massed bands though, along with brass is very stirring.

aA
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-11-06 04:11 PM
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52. I went to school in Edinburg
Edited on Sat Nov-11-06 04:15 PM by Xipe Totec
no, that's no typo; I went to School at the University of Texas-Pan American, in Edinburg Texas.



http://www.panam.edu/

:hi:
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 08:38 PM
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29. Had a piper at our wedding
25 years ago. It's all the rage now, I understand. Just saying.
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Avalux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 08:41 PM
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30. Funny you should ask.......
When I was a kid and my family went on long drives, my dad would torture us by playing his tapes of bagpipe music. My brother and I hated it; I'd go into convulsions (almost) while my dad laughed in sadistic glee.

So why, now, do I love listening to bagpipes? Very strange. ;-)
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 01:05 PM
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44. Same for me with the accordion
A lot of music from Northern Mexico uses the accordion. I hated it as a kid, but now I miss it.



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YDogg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 08:48 PM
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32. Pipes and drums rock my socks.
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redwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 08:52 PM
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33. Love it!
:-)
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youthere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 08:54 PM
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35. I would rather have spikes driven into my ears..
Edited on Thu Nov-09-06 08:55 PM by youthere
wait...it's practically the same thing.

In the immortal words of..somebody "Thank God there's no smell."
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 09:02 PM
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36. I want to be piped into the next life.
If you don't appreciate the beauty of the pipes, then you're not invited to my funeral.


OK. If you're still reading.... I'm an atheist, and don't believe in all that "next life" rot. I still think that the pipes are beautiful, and I'd like my loved ones to hear them to help me to be remembered.
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1gobluedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 09:03 PM
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37. Yes, I love it
Edited on Thu Nov-09-06 09:14 PM by 1gobluedem
Watching massed bands come into a Scottish festival is awe-inspiring.

Okay, that video was incredible. I bookmarked it and will watch it again and again and again.
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 09:59 AM
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40. kick
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Lowell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 10:18 AM
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41. I like them about as much as
fingernails dragging across a chalkboard. When ever I hear them I feel like howling like a dog.
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 10:23 AM
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42. I rank it above gladiator movies, at least.
A little goes a long way, but damn, it stirs something in me.
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 01:06 PM
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45. LOVE IT
Medium Man/Floating Candles off the Battlefield Band's "Happy Daze" album is a sublime piece of music.

Makes me want to kill the English. ;)
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Rambis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 01:37 PM
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47.  Love em Battlefield Band or The Tannahill Weavers
Colin the new guy from the Tannies is a hell of a player great stuff.
this video isn't great but the sound is ok.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZsBeRDrkJU&mode=related&search=
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OllieLotte Donating Member (495 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-11-06 07:13 PM
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54. I'll check them out.
I really like bagpipe music.
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Vidar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 01:45 PM
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48. Yes
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 06:49 PM
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49. So a young Scotsman is writing home to his folks ...
"I seem to have moved into a bad neighborhood. Everyone in my building is either drunk or stoned all the time. There have been seven divorces and three suicides just in the last month. It leaves me afraid to go out -- I just stay home and play the bagpipes for hours on end."

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Pacifist Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 06:50 PM
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50. Indeed I do. Thanks!
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 07:10 PM
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51. Some interesting stuff re CMU and bagpipes ...
Originally Carnegie Tech and funded by a gift from (Scottish-born) Andrew Carnegie, CMU is the only American university to offer a degree in bagpipe performance. CMU is also the only (AFAIK) home of a bagpipe-playing robot.

http://www.cmu.edu/clips/v92.html

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/mcblare/
http://hct.ece.ubc.ca/nime/2005/proc/nime2005_080.pdf

Oh, and there's an Alasdair Gillies concert SUNDAY, 11/12, 7:30 in Kresge Hall.
http://destination.cfa.cmu.edu/popup/vs_upcoming.php?file=249&file_left=254

Scholarship package is $7,000 a year and subsidized kilts
The Wall Street Journal | May 11
As the only student majoring in bagpipes at any American university or college, Nick Hudson walks a loud, lonely road. A recent day found him practicing by himself in a basement room at Carnegie Mellon University's student union. Pulling back his shoulder-length red hair, the 18-year-old freshman jammed rubber plugs into his ears before he adjusted the reeds and tuned the drones of his instrument. Then, tucking the bag under his arm, he began to step methodically around the room in time as he played Scottish jigs, classical pieces called piobaireachd and, to show the instrument's versatility, a lightning-fast rendition of "Thunderstruck" by AC/DC. ... He has been banished from the practice rooms at Carnegie Mellon's prestigious music school by violinists, pianists and opera vocalists who complained that his playing drowned out their own rehearsals. "We're not too neighbor-friendly," admits Alasdair Gillies, the Scotsman who heads Carnegie Mellon's bagpipe program. He is also the only professor.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-11-06 07:17 PM
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55. Depends on bagpipe being used
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