The Fascinating History of Bagpipes

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@asinglemaleinuk Ай бұрын

As a proud Scot , I knew it was an ancient instrument. The sound of the pipes makes the hair stand up in the back of my head. An it terrifies the English 😂

@cattymajiv Ай бұрын

They do the same to me, + make me cry, almost without fail. I'm half English, half Irish, + born in Canada. 🇨🇦

@donaldahern9930 2 ай бұрын

I was told by my father the bagpipes were a gift too the Scots from the Irish. To this day they hav'nt figured out the joke.

@elizabethpaulashworth2679 2 ай бұрын

You may add that, since the Clearances, Great Highland bagpipes have spread with Scottish settlers throughout the world. They are very popular among military and non-military bands in Canada, the US, Australia, and New Zealand. There are also high levels of playing competitions worldwide.

@lorenzocobiella3410 Ай бұрын

Don’t think that bagpipes are only Scottish and Irish. Check out Galician and Asturian dances and music. After all, Breogan was gallego.

@fionnmcnessa Ай бұрын

Irish war pipes and Scottish bagpipes were identical the pipes found at the battle of Culloden had only two drones the same as the Irish war pipes they were outlawed in Ireland by the English the Scots in the British army then added a third drone and we have todays Great Highland bagpipe

@CrimsonRaven51 Ай бұрын

As a youngster, we grew up going back to Ontario, Canada to visit relatives during the summer. We’d attended the annual Highlander Games. There would be contests among which were the bagpipe competitions. Hearing the pipes up close was exihilarating. As an adult, attended police funerals with the pipes playing. Always an emotional gut feeling.

@cattymajiv Ай бұрын

@@CrimsonRaven51 I don't know why, but the pipes always make me shiver and cry! It's a very deeply affecting feeling. Must be the Irish in me!

@deborahberger5816 Ай бұрын

My husband learned to play the bagpipes when he was growing up in Glasgow. A few years ago, some people from a Unitarian church asked him to play "Amazing Grace" during a Memorial Day service. He said that bagpipes were an instrument of war, and that he would play them outside, but not inside the church. He wasn't comfortable playing a hymn on them either, but in the end he decided to go along with the congregants. As it happened, the weather that Memorial Day turned out to be fine, and there was a beautiful Unitarian Memorial Day service held in the church garden.

@cattymajiv Ай бұрын

My former neighbor always played outside, but I never knew why. I thought it was so as to not bother his family. It never failed to draw me out into the lane to listen. I loved having a piper as neighbor!

@cliffhall5602 Ай бұрын

I had no idea they were this ancient and varied.

@raymondmuench3266 Ай бұрын

Shepherd pipers used to descend on Rome from the Alban Hills around Christmas. Let’s just say it was a treat even if the sound was a bit rough. It was still happening in the ‘80’s. Wonder if it goes on today?

@cattymajiv Ай бұрын

There is another comment about 7 places below yours, by a person named Kaloarepo288, who talks about that in more detail.

@PeloquinDavid Ай бұрын

It may be that the earliest evidence we have of bagpipes dates from ancient Mesopotamia, but it's likely thay go back well into prehistoric times - possibly even before the beginnings of widespread agriculture. It is more likely that the ingredients for them required at least pastoralism to have taken hold (which argues for a more mountainous origin than the plains of Mesopotamia). Evidence for the flutie-reedie bits goes back even further in the archaeological record of homo sapiens, but a steady supply of sheep and goat skins was arguably required before the bagpipes could become a widespread folk instrument.

@adamg393 Ай бұрын

There were first found on Hadrians wall from the solders and guess where the kilt came from

@asinglemaleinuk Ай бұрын

Great kilt or the Northern English wrap around quick one ?

@user-ju7dx8mu6d 2 ай бұрын

The Duda is still a popular bagpipe in Ukraine, Hungary and other countries that contain the Carpathian mountains.

@lp-xl9ld 2 ай бұрын

Someone once told me "The Irish invented the bagpipes...but the Scots took them seriously."

@traluf1466 Ай бұрын

Whoever did it, they shouldn't have..

@cattymajiv Ай бұрын

@@traluf1466 LOLOLOLOL!

@darylturner2321 2 ай бұрын

Yes, you left out the musical qualities of the bagpipe. The possible scales, key(s) they play & volume, to name just three.

@davidpryle3935 2 ай бұрын

In Ireland, mouth blown bagpipes were called war pipes.

@georgefrench1907 Ай бұрын

In the USA the bagpipe is widely used at ceremonies such as burial rites, especially but not exclusively in military, police and firefighter burials. They are often featured in marching bands on holidays such as Memorial Day, Veterans Day and others.

@georgefrench1907 Ай бұрын

There are almost as many teasing jokes about the bagpipe as about the banjo. Example: The definition of a gentleman in Scotland is a person who knows how to play the pipes - but doesn’t. Thanks for the interesting video.

@happymonk4206 Ай бұрын

My ancestry goes back to the Picts. I like the bagpipes.

@kaloarepo288 Ай бұрын

Actually bagpipe central is not Scotland - it's the mountains of the Abruzzo region of central Italy where there have been shepherds playing the bagpipes for thousands of years. At Christmas time they descend from the mountains and go to Rome where their bagpiping creates the atmosphere of the Nativity shepherds in the churches and in the streets. Actually the great Anglo-German composer George Frederick Handel (buried in Westminster abbey) as a young man lived in Rome and heard these bagpipers at Christmas and it was this memory that inspired him to write the pastoral sinfonia in his great work "Messiah" -In France we had the royal bagpipes or cornemuse and these were a musical instrument of nobility not of shepherds.

@cattymajiv Ай бұрын

Thanks very much for this fascinating info!

@CrimsonRaven51 Ай бұрын

I remember the statement made by uncle Argyle in “Brave Heart “ during the funeral for William Wallace’s father. The pipers were playing and he said “they’re playing outlawed tunes on outlawed pipes.” Now I learn the pipes were never really outlawed! Kind of takes away some of the sad drama of the story.

@pphedup Ай бұрын

Of course, Braveheart had absolutely nothing to do with actual history...all Hollywood. No Kilts like today's yet, no Great Highland pipes yet, Brave not with the French queen, Stirling Bridge fight had no bridge in the movie...

@ClarenceCochran-ne7du Ай бұрын

Isabella of France was 10 years old when Wallace was executed. Braveheart is Robert the Bruce's Nickname, not Wallace's. Braveheart is so historically inaccurate it's a Fecking joke.

@CrimsonRaven51 Ай бұрын

@@ClarenceCochran-ne7du Thanks for clarifying.

@rabidrooster6525 Ай бұрын

Also, the pipe being played was a Great Highland Pipe, but the actual music was that of the Irish Uilleainn pipes

@olddoggeleventy2718 Ай бұрын

I always thought it started as a way to have your haggis on the go, with a straw.

@niteshades_promise Ай бұрын

haggis to go😂 🍻

@kevinhendryx665 27 күн бұрын

My bagpipes attract cows but terrify dogs.

@judihopewell2499 Ай бұрын

I believe there is an annual music festival in france for pipers to attend and share…

@sonnylambert4893 Ай бұрын

Scotch Irish US Metal band Mastodon has songs where the electric guitar leads are very much like a bagpipe

@RealBonnieBlue Ай бұрын

Thebes Greece not Thebes Egypt. The reference had a Boeotian character and was an excerpt from the ARCHANIANS by Aristophanes, "...and all of you, musicians from Thebes, pipe with your bone flutes into a dog's rump."

@jeffreyblock16 Ай бұрын

I thought there was only one bagpipe song (Roddy Pipper’s theme that gets played at his fans funerals)

@RealBonnieBlue Ай бұрын

Also, the area the "Hittite" slab was found, was later called Byza and then Constantinople. Asia just means Asia Minor/Anatolia, and not really an Asiatic or Middle Eastern territory. The Hittites were extinct by 1200 BC but the area was inhabited by the Phyrigians, a Thracian tribe in 1000 BC when the slab was dated. The Thracians were assimilated into the rest of Greece during the Roman conquest. This was 700 years before the Slavic and Bulgarian in-vas-ions and 1000 years before the Mongol Turks. The common link between "pans pipes/ Bag of Dionysus" in the European south and the move northwards to the bagpipes in northern Europe was the Romans, hence why the north can attest to the instrument long before any modern Balkan or Turkic country.

@thislittlelightofmine8776 2 ай бұрын

I believe bagpipes were spread throughout the ancient world by Phoenicians, from Lebanon seaports and Black Sea shipyards to old Mediterranean then Spain n France, then to Scotland Wales and Ireland from their regular trade routes to Isle of Man and Argyll

@yaruqadishi8326 2 ай бұрын

Nice theory but really it's from south east and south wise it's Greece and Anatolia and then central Europe. The bagpipes come from the southern Europe area possibly Italy and Greece and far north origin wise central Europe. Scottish William Wallace was right all along.

@austinlong3052 2 ай бұрын

All great ideas and theories, but the bagpipes originated in Egypt. There are painted depictions on walls in Egypt during biblical times of an Egyptian playing a very primitive version of the pipes along the Nile. In the Bible, it is suggested in King Nebachenzzers band that the symphonia is a very primitive form of the pipes. All of the coinciding with Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, and the very northern part of Africa being situated all next and near to each other during when the Ancient Egyptians and the Bible would have existed and happened thousands of years ago. The Romans on their conquest when expanding their empire came into Egypt, Isreal, Jerusalem and Mesopotamia and adopted the pipes from the Egyptians and people within that region aka the “Cradle of Civilization”. They then on their conquests and expansion of their empire took them when they went up to the Britain and Ireland primarily Ireland where the Irish adapted them as the “War pipes” which then they gave to the Scottish and the rest is history. Hope this helps.

@yaruqadishi8326 Ай бұрын

@@austinlong3052 the bagpipes as you're talking about are not bagpipes but they're just pipes and pipers which is during orally before biblical claim times which is like what 400 BCE and later. You turn biblical is kind of a really scratchy sketchy terminology because the Hebrew Bible is late to post antiquity.

@pphedup Ай бұрын

2:06 Why do they keep showing "pipers" playing the harp?

@elessar63 Ай бұрын

I don't see anything resembling bagpipes in that Hittite carving. The image accompanying the claim Egyptians played bagpipes showed what clearly is a harp. Just look at the position of the hands. And while the photo on screen when talking about the pipers of Thebes were bagpipes, those could have been from anywhere. The video even states the earliest artifact found was from the late 14th century. The image immediately following when talking about dog skins was also clearly a harp. In fact, this video depicts an awful lot of harps when talking about bagpipes, like when talking about the Celtic culture and Nero. And when talking about Mesopotamia at the beginning, this carving obviously showed lyres which resemble a harp.

@emmanuelwinner4149 2 ай бұрын

Why no samples of bagpipes being played?

@cartoonraccoon2078 2 ай бұрын

Apparently 3 seconds of bagpipe music and KZfaq will claim your whole video for the ancient Celts or some-sorta-shit.

@Abigael317 Ай бұрын

Sources in description please

@irenedebruyn2796 Ай бұрын

Maybe they were invented accidentally when bellows had a hole in their pipes?

@pphedup Ай бұрын

3:43 Clan Wallace!

@austinlong3052 2 ай бұрын

The bagpipes were outlawed by the English Court. A piper who led his fellow men into battle who was captured would stand trial and be found guilty and sentenced to death by having his head cut off. I don’t know why the video says that the pipes were never banned because this is false. When highland pipes were banned, this is how we got other varieties of pipes like the Scottish Smallpipes, and the Irish Uileann Pipes since they weren’t technically highland pipes but still qualified as pipes and this way pipers could get away with it.

@Wotsitorlabart Ай бұрын

Incorrect. The Highland pipes were never banned. Following Culloden; 'One of the prisoners was James Reid. Rather than facing this punishment, he decided to take his case to trial, with the novel defense - he claimed that he was not a combatant in the battle, because he was a bagpiper. This is where the idea that bagpipes were an instrument of war began. The judge's ruling mentioned that the bagpipes could be considered an instrument of war. This was because, he said, no Scottish army would go to war without pipers. The final ruling, unfortunately for this myth, is that he was guilty - not because he was a piper, but because he was an active participant (he was a conscript)'.

@deborahberger5816 Ай бұрын

They didn't make it an offense to speak Scots Gaelic either.

@jimpomac Ай бұрын

Another of Mel Gibson's pieces of nonsense. The Pipes were never ,at any time, banned in Scotland. The 1746 acts of Proscription banned the carrying of weapons and the wearing of Highland dress by men and boys. Bagpipes were never mentioned .

@hendrixplek Ай бұрын

No, that's a myth and is not true. The Bagpipes were not listed under the banned weapons in the court records. The Jacobite piper who got hung, James Reid, thought he would be smarter than the judge and argued, that he's just a musician tagging along with the Jacobite army, to the dislike of the judge. The other piper who pled guilty and stated that he had no choice, as his Laird forced him to do so, so his life got spared.

@hendrixplek Ай бұрын

And Bellows blown lowland pipes have been around before the great highland pipes. There were probably more lowland that highland pipers in the Jacobite Army.

@faolanliath6687 Ай бұрын

That was an Egyptian harp.

@user-pf6ib3ue5s Ай бұрын

Accordion same concept

@Albanach-je1nk 2 ай бұрын

What kind of Saxon England or Yankyland???

@goobah6072 Ай бұрын

When I think of bagpipes, I think of AC/DC -It's a long way to the top.🤘🤘🤘

@johngordy8071 2 ай бұрын

Shakespeare killed off Falstaff in Henry V. How could we hear from him in Henry VI?

@CarlosGarcia-fi4yu Ай бұрын

Spain Ibero-Celts of Galicia such as I, play bagpipes therefore, Scottish/ British bagpipes aren't unique let alone the only ones.

@wernervanderwalt8541 2 ай бұрын

Once heard a joke that the Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scottish as a joke!😂😂

@simon-oy6um 2 ай бұрын

So thats why the romans left caladonia 😅

@pphedup Ай бұрын

😅😂

@user-se6vg7mr1z Ай бұрын

The Celts were not from Asia, they were from Western Europe, with Spain & France in particular, and the bagpipes were also from there, from the place the Celts came from. Any appearance in other places like the Balkans, Greece, Anatolia, Bulgaria, Armenia, the Caucauses, were the Celt warriors who migrated from the West------------>to the East. You only have to look at a few graphs, phenotypes, histories, culture & music, to figure it out......West------------->to East.

@oskarsrode2167 2 ай бұрын

Celts moving from Asia to Europe? What??

@malcolm2587 Ай бұрын

The bagpipes originally Irish they gave them to the Scots as a gift but the Scots never got the joke

@newfieshamrock Ай бұрын

The irish kerne brought the pipes to scotland..thats what i have been taught anyways

@stephenswistchew7720 Ай бұрын

The bagpipes were invented by Egyptian sheep herderers and had one playing pipe but the Irish had bagpipes before Scotland and the bagpipes as wee know them today were invented by an English folk singer but he could not play and sing at the same time and he threw away them in a farmers midden (dung pile ) and a Scotsman came along and pulled them out of the muck wrapped a piece of his s kilt round them and took them home cleaned them up and has been trying to blow the shit out of them ever since 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😂😂😂😂😂😂 my great great great great great grandfather passed this along to me and it’s true because he got it out of a tv guide Ora best Scotty

@brucechapman8952 Ай бұрын

Use a bagpipe go to jail it should be law!

@richarddeese1087 Ай бұрын

If you'd said bagpipes were a medieval torture device, I'd have believed it. tavi.

@pphedup Ай бұрын

Either my ears are off or yours are. They give me chills of pleasure and want me to tear into live meat. aruff, ruff. 😂

@lxdgr8 Ай бұрын

@matthewsermons7247 Ай бұрын

Proof bag pipes can rock. Here is Enter Sandman on the pipes. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fr6da62VqJrPZJc.html

@pphedup Ай бұрын

Too bad the other instruments actually DROWN OUT the pipes😮

@PoetGorman Ай бұрын

The Celts carried it from somewhere else? How about the Celts invented it, which would explain how reference to a similar instrument exists only on the migration route the Celts took into Europe, references that came AFTER that migration? Romanized western academia will twist itself into pretzels in order to avoid giving the Celts credit for anything, despite their occupying most of Europe before Rome inflicted physical and historic genocide against them (then claimed all of their innovations and inventions for themselves). And contemporary Romancentric academia perpetuates the crime! Get a clue! This slavish adherence to Greco-Roman versions of history has got to stop. Learning about the Celts from Rome is like learning about the Native Americans from George Custer!

@teddrosenthal 2 ай бұрын

I don't trust anyone who says BCE.

@michaelfoley9904 Ай бұрын

Yes I agree with you

@ronaldharding3927 Ай бұрын

I don't understand why? It designates a period of time that was pre-Christian the same as BC (before Christ). I've been a Christian for 64 years; a Baptist minister of one kind or another for 55 years; a Baptist evangelical. Changing the names of times, corporations, services, etc. has been one of the phenomena of the 20th/21st centuries. As long as it communicates, I don't see the problem.

@brazendesigns Ай бұрын

That’s like saying “I don’t trust anyone who says meters”. BC/AD is used in the US.

@palndan Ай бұрын

Or a show about bagpipes where you don’t hear a single bagpipe!

@dew02300 Ай бұрын

@@palndanThat’s a good thing right?