The Great Highland Bagpipe

The Great Highland Bagpipe - How It Works

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Fergus Scottish Festival Official

3 жыл бұрын

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@mikkelnpetersen 3 жыл бұрын

Of all instruments, the bagpipe can be the most annoying and more amazing.

@chaplainmattsanders4884 2 жыл бұрын

True that!

@nicolea2839 2 жыл бұрын

I love bagpipes

@thedictationofallah Жыл бұрын

Greatest instrument man has ever made

@mctooch Жыл бұрын

Omg so well said!

@davidrhind1372 Жыл бұрын

The perfect instrument.

@CMAdams-sd5ou 3 жыл бұрын

I watched a few videos on how the bagpipe works and this one was my favorite. There's also a beautiful song played at the end that I would love to know the name of.

@MichaelWilliams-uo7tx 3 жыл бұрын

The tune, as they're called when played on the pipes, is Dr. MacPhail's Reel, composed by Andrew Bain. Believe he was a Kiwi piper of some renown, but don't quote me on that. A great tune, well played here for sure that is often used in competition sets known as the March, Strathspey, and Reel. Cheers!

@bushyman477 2 жыл бұрын

So the user isn't directly making sound by blowing. They are just re-inflating a bag of air that is producing the sound.

@llzaqwsx 3 жыл бұрын

I'm gonna want some louder backing pipes there buddy

@marpy Жыл бұрын

thank you so much! Very informative and to the point, I love it

@alejandronieto576 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent! Thank you from Buenos Aires!!

@fergusscottishfestival 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@discman15 2 жыл бұрын

"of all the souls I have encountered in my travels... His was the m-most... Human 💀"

@mariustan9275 3 жыл бұрын

Me who doesn't even own a bagpipe: Well well lets find out.

@spoodle8988 3 жыл бұрын

Gotta say, I think this would be the hardest instrument to learn, let alone play and master. Props to the guys guys can.

@carypyke935 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you well done

@donttrackmegoogle 3 жыл бұрын

WHAT DID HE SAY?! WHAT? NO, WHAT IS HE SAYING? WHAT?! I CAN'T HEAR HIM! WHAT?!

@bluegrassman3040 3 жыл бұрын

HUH!?

@nolinnellz3499 3 жыл бұрын

IDK?!

@extramedium4389 3 жыл бұрын

I SAID THEIR SELLIN CHOCOLATES!

@crowbar4976 2 жыл бұрын

SPEAK UP, I CAN'T HEAR YOU!

@unknownpalooza8475 2 жыл бұрын

WAT YE DIDN'T HARD IT FÉIRE!???

@nicolea2839 2 жыл бұрын

I LOVE bagpipes! Why? Because I’m part Irish and Scottish!

@jlr3636 Жыл бұрын

Can any song be played on a bagpipe or are some songs and notes out of its range? When my dad passed my brother found a bagpiper to play at his funeral, my dad was a former U.S. Marine and my brother requested he play the Marine Corps Hymn,, the piper said he didn’t think he could play that on a bagpipe. I have to say the bagpiper playing off in the distance during the ceremony way moving.

@MariJu1ce Жыл бұрын

interesting that only 100k also wanted to know who it works. weird that i have never known how bagpipes work and that it took me this long before i googled it.

@ashrafali2535 2 жыл бұрын

They forgot to add drums, piano, trumpets and every other instrument in the backround of this video!

@jean_enzo_xxx_du_2812 2 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, quality content

@DrRockter5150 Жыл бұрын

So, question... if the key to each song is different, can the pipes be tuned for the specific tune, or does another set of pipes have to come into play? Or are the songs for bagpipes generally set in a specific key? This instrument has always fascinated me. Being a musician, I'm always looking to learn the workings of other instruments. Thanks for the video!

@davidrhind1372 Жыл бұрын

They're quickly tuned

@LEMENG885 3 жыл бұрын

Very Nice...Love This...👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏⚘⚘⚘❤❤❤

@raynekraven 2 жыл бұрын

that instrument will always be a mystery for me

@alecbailey2410 19 күн бұрын

Why don't you try living in Northern Scotland for several thousand years?! Im willing to bet that someone from your village would carve some holes in goat bones. And now we bagpipes.

@raynekraven 19 күн бұрын

@@alecbailey2410 why the hell do I feel some hostility from you? I meant no disrespect, I love bagpipes. I just don't understand how it works. I don't have the honor of being a noble Scotsman.

@stevesyncox9893 Жыл бұрын

Cool

@bagpipesMusap 2 жыл бұрын

راااااايع 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

@bilbobagpipe2384 2 жыл бұрын

neat

@xxGamerZxx50 11 ай бұрын

I wanna learn how to play the bagpipe

@danielchin1259 3 жыл бұрын

涨知识了

@ryanfreedman6348 3 жыл бұрын

Can you tune the drones to chords?

@em.142 2 жыл бұрын

Normally on Highland bagpipes they’re all tuned to A, but on some variants like the Scottish smallpipes or Northumbrian smallpipes they can be tuned to different chords, to varying degrees.

@piobmhor8529 Жыл бұрын

I would also like to add that it’s a lot easier to have someone else tune your drones while you make a constant low A on the chanter. If you’re alone, you silence the base and one tenor drone, play a low A and guesstimate how much to move the drone. Try again until you get that tenor drone in tune, then pop the second tenor and tune it to the first one. Repeat for the base drone. Like I said, it’s easier to have a second pair of hands do it for you while you play a steady low A.

@Flightdeck331 10 ай бұрын

I wished i played a pipe in my band but my teacher didn’t have one for me it is ok tho i still play a clarinet it is just me in my head imagining to play a pipe

@DEVOTION.yt. 2 жыл бұрын

Turn the music up I can almost hear the narration

@wanjirupeggie454 Жыл бұрын

I came here to confirm how this instrument works after I have watched queen Elizabeth funeral

@Jonnyjey Жыл бұрын

How does the bag fill again after the player needs a break. Further, is the bag open to the one side and needs to be covered fully with the arm, so that the air doesn‘t come out?

@jamesmenzies9932 Жыл бұрын

The bag is an airtight bladder made of animal skin such as cowhide or sheepskin. Nowadays it’s also made of synthetic material such as Gore-Tex. It only has the five small openings - three for the drones, one for the chanter that creates the melody and the fifth for the blowstick that has a one-way valve. The bag acts as an air reservoir that is squeezed when the player takes a breath.

@mattp9361 2 жыл бұрын

I tried to listen to him talk but the noise playing in the background was overpowering. I really tried

@xavierstormsurge6106 3 жыл бұрын

Bro I gotta know what the last bit he played there. That was insanely good

@em.142 2 жыл бұрын

Dr MacPhail’s Reel IIRC

@skylineXpert 3 жыл бұрын

Now i know how to get me ma's atention

@JBrooksNYS 2 жыл бұрын

What song is he playing? The piobrach sounding one.

@jamesmenzies9932 Жыл бұрын

Black Donald's March

@WickdPerfekT 3 жыл бұрын

How do you achieve that stuttering sound on the chanter?

@mdr1396 3 жыл бұрын

The stutter is from grace notes and other embellishments, quickly lifting and tapping on a specific note without trying to actually hear the note itself, it's more for a break in the constant sound since the chanter reed can't really be stopped to create pauses, so that stuttering is to create the illusion of a break in the sound.

@erni172320 2 жыл бұрын

@@mdr1396 excellent advise. Cheers from Chile

@348frank348 3 жыл бұрын

Brian regan sent me

@aqilagl1976 10 ай бұрын

Centaur price

@leotuulse833 Жыл бұрын

i dont have tape

@jonathancoolman Жыл бұрын

this is so cool and i like bag pipie gibe me 1 now befoe i tell my mommy.

@RageUnchained 2 жыл бұрын

Bagpipes make me sad because here in the states we hardly hear them outside

@lilee-rayecousins6104 Жыл бұрын

There used to be a guy who would play them in a field near our house, it was really amazing.

@Nightsowl69 3 жыл бұрын

How the hell you keep it aired

@kendarr 3 жыл бұрын

i think thats what he does when he blows on it

@bluegrassman3040 3 жыл бұрын

Hook up an air chuck to it, so it can be aired up.

@treywest268 3 жыл бұрын

By blowing into the mouth piece. That is what puts the air into the bag. Gentle squeezing with left elbow pushes the air out the pipes and also out the chanter where the fingering is done for the melody notes. The drone notes come out of the pipes. The piece up to the mouth is mainly for air from what I understand.

@justinnaramor6050 2 жыл бұрын

@@treywest268 Your observation is correct. So the air coming from your mouth is not what causes the sound (this is how something like a saxophone works); rather, the air coming from the bag is what causes the sound. The air from the mouth/lungs is used only to inflate the bag, nothing more. That's really what makes bagpipes so unique and fascinating to me, but I think it's also why bagpipes are sometimes misunderstood.

@leotuulse833 Жыл бұрын

please turn up the bagpipe i can almost hear you talk

@Pantherking916 4 ай бұрын

Why the monstrosity in the background?

@QuesoSlam 2 жыл бұрын

Can’t hear you over the music. Soooo bad.

@FlokisMonkeyVoodoo 2 жыл бұрын

Man I last 44 seconds before I had to stop it. No need to play the bagpipes in the background while you’re talking.🤯

@alexmarch9478 2 жыл бұрын

That was a long song

@KevinGurung-ef3tl 10 ай бұрын

Can you give me a bagpipe

@scottbrown8763 2 жыл бұрын

First off….great video. But lower the bagpipes in the background or remove it. Trying to listen to your explanation of things is rough with the pipes being so loud and your voice so soft. I only made it through half the video due to that.

@MXXRSHH Жыл бұрын

Why would you talk and explain it all over the noise of the bagpipes playing in the background? Very annoying

@fenixphire84 3 ай бұрын

Omg I can hardly hear him 😂

@deodbolen 2 жыл бұрын

Clarinet players what is this taking a breath thing you speak of

@vehicleboi5598 2 жыл бұрын

pip

@lloydenergyninja 7 ай бұрын

this is too complicated for me

@chickendrawsdogs3343 23 күн бұрын

Atreides! Atreides! Atreides!

@RightAway87 3 жыл бұрын

Holy Christ! I can't hear a damn thing you say with the bloody loud pipes in the background!!

@justinnaramor6050 2 жыл бұрын

LOL, I can hear him perfectly. I'm wondering if you listened to this on crappy sound equipment, or perhaps your hearing just isn't that great or something? I do not mean that to offend you or anything of that nature. But I can hear what he's saying quite clearly even with the pipes. So I'm a little concerned.

@johnny5stacks60 2 жыл бұрын

I’ll never understand the bagpipes. No disrespect, I get they are extremely difficult to play, and are part of a rich heritage, but gaddam are they obnoxious lol