Just for alex
- 25 September 2011 21:15128177a lone piper in the town centre today, not sure he was wearing hobnail boots though.
you may wonder why i have photographed him from behind.
every time i tried to take the shot from the front he turned away, maybe he thought i was from the benefits agency?
- 25 September 2011 21:20128180A man and his pipe,s need to earn a bob or two i like to lisen to piper,s they are so good it take a lot of wind to blow up the bag
Yorkshire Born And Yorkshire Bred - 25 September 2011 22:33128189That's lovely for a piper to visit Dover!
He might be Scottish or Irish, going by the kilt.
It depends on the tartan, I'll have to check that out. As you all know, the Irish pipers also wear kilts.
The Scots have got many, many different tartans.
When in full gear, the Scots wear white military boots.
I've got the impression the piper might be holding a bellows under his arm. In this case he wasn't using a blowpipe. The Highlanders use only blowpipes, the Lowland Scots tend to use bellows-blown pipes, as do the English players of Northumbrian pipes.
The Irish use both kinds of bagpipes, but tend to prefer the Scottish-type blowpipe.
The bagpipe is a Celtic instrument, and the Celts even introduced it to the Balcans about 2,000 years ago, which is why the bagpipe is common in Macedonia, Bulgaria and to an extent Greece and to a smaller extent Serbia.
Of-course the French also have bagpipes, from their Celtic heritage, and among them the Bretons.
The first recorded bagpipe in English literature is a Kentish manufact, blown in Canterbury in the 14th century, as described by our Kentish author Geoffrey Chaucer:
"A baggepipe wel koude he blowe and sowne. And therwithal he broghte us out of towne."
It's rumoured that Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales inspired by the bagpipe!
Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
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Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 26 September 2011 14:10128265I guess they all have good lungs.---------------------------------------------------
Lincolnshire Born and Bred - 26 September 2011 21:08128349They no doubt do, Kath, but the bellows-blown bagpipe doesn't have a mouthpiece, the air pressure is inserted on the bag through movement of the left arm.Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
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Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 26 September 2011 22:10128366The pipes in the picture are highland pipes Alex. Apart from the colour of the bag cover they look just like mine.I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
- 26 September 2011 22:39128367Oh I do love to hear the bagpipes! How moving is that lone piper playing at the finale of the Edinburgh tattoo on top of the castle! It always sends a shiver down my spine. And don't get me started on the last post and evening hymn - tissues needed every time!There's always a little truth behind every "Just kidding", a little emotion behind every "I don't care" and a little pain behind every "I'm ok".
- 27 September 2011 00:03128375Peter, the Highland bagpipe has a tartan. So it is difficult to tell which bagpipe is being used by the piper in Dover.
However, mouth-blown bagpipes are very loud, where-as small pipes are much softer. Perhaps Howard can say whether the piper was blowing into the instrument.
Jacqui, you can find pipe music galore on You tube. Have you listened to Hebridean Air? It's most beautiful! Just google it.Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
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Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 27 September 2011 09:32128410from the few glimpses i got he seemed to be blowing into it alex.
- 27 September 2011 09:36128412Alex as an ex-piper I can see from the shape of the bag what kind of pipes they are. Tartan bag covers are unusual nowadays outside the military.I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
- Brian Dixon
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27 September 2011 10:46128424its all huff and puff to me.i wonder if he keeps his scotch/pickeld eggs in his sporen.
- 27 September 2011 14:53128436My Nephew is in the Scottish Regiment after 2 tours of Iraq in a tank,he is a piper and played the bagpipes to my Stepfather in April and my Mum this Month in Dover and the crowds came out,He is really Scottish as he was born in that Scottish enclave of Ash near Sandwich!
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble! - Brian Dixon
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27 September 2011 15:41128439very scotish that place,isnt twined with glasgow.
