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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000082.txt from 2007/11
From: Barbara Trautwein <mzeztee@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Bagpipes
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:39:11 -0500
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Edward B. Flowers wrote:
> Dan,
>
> I understand that the bagpipes, both Ullian and Scotch, employ reeds
> which are inside the instrument. A Scotch bagpiper told me that the
> Ullian bagpipes, which feeds air to the reeds via a bellows, protects
> these reeds from the moisture that the oboe and bassoon subject their
> reeds to--so they last longer.
>
> My questions are these: (1) are these reeds double (like the oboe) or
> single (like the clarinet) and (2) could a double-reeder take apart a
> bagpipes and voice the reeds with his reed knife?
>
> Edward B. Flowers
>
>
>
> Dan Duncan wrote:
>
>> I believe that there ARE things called "chamber pipes" that sound
>> very well inside.
>>
>> A "lovely" pipe organ can sound horrible if it is voiced incorrectly
>> or if the pipes are played at the incorrect wind pressure. The shawm
>> is usually considered a 'loud' (the old term was 'high') instrument
>> but even that rather loud instrument can be played indoors to good
>> effect.
>>
>> I get it that some folks don't care for bagpipes. OK, enough said.
>> I believe you. Now something else to discuss perhaps?
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> On Nov 28, 2007, at 11:36 PM, Judith and James Preston wrote:
>>
>>> <Call me a tonality or aural snob if you like, but I'll take a
>>> lovely choir
>>> with organ over ciarmella and drums almost any day.>
>>>
>>> A wise man once defined a "gentleman" as a man who can play the
>>> bagpipes,
>>> and doesn't.
>>>
>>> I do enjoy the sound of bagpipes on occasion, but only outside and at a
>>> distance. They have no "indoor voice."
>>>
>>> -Jim
>>>
>>>
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>> Dan Duncan
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