Here is a video posted from my Tik Tok account from July 2021 giving an overview about how the great highland bagpipe works. Support me on patreon! / piperally
Being a 4th generation State Trooper of Irish descent,this speaks to my soul.There is nothing I’d rather have played at my funeral or anytime before that day.It calms me to hear Scotland The Brave or Danny Boy.
As a half Irish firefighter, I want nothing less than for the used to be played in my funeral. They are Scottish, yes there are Irish variants, but these are very much a Scottish instrument. You will almost never see these at Irish funerals ever. It's an unfortunate stereotype of being born in the US 🤷🏽
What you do for the pipes is wonderful. You share your love for the instrument & you teach us it has so much more to offer in music! And you make it fun. Hope you really enjoy it as much as you make it look!
Awesome video, I honestly never knew the pipes were so popular they are used quite alot in my home country of Ireland and specially in Scotland I hear them almost every week in some form or another and it truly is a unique sound. I love what you are doing and thank you for keeping these historical instruments relevant in the modern era.
This was a phenomenal explanation of the pipes...My French teacher in HS was wife of Michael Mac Harg. Always fascinated by the sound; never tried Pipes but have found joy in playing some trad tunes on mandolin.
Thank you for that lesson. My father learned the bagpipes at the age of 42, so he could impress my mother on her 40th birthday. For the rest of his life, he would step out on his bedroom balcony at midnight on New Year's Eve, and play the bagpipes. Badly. But it was so much fun! I do have one question. When you store the pipes after playing them, you just simply squeeze all of the air out of the bag, or is there another method? I know, sounds like a stupid question, but I am curious. On the same token, what is the proper way to store bagpipes long-term?
I have a soft spot for the bagpipe sound, my late pops who along with being an Illinois Trooper was also a piper (feather cap and kilt but minus being regimental). Hearing this just gets me reminiscent of him.
Thanks so much for making these videos! I love your music! In your videos, I think I’m seeing two different pipe chanters in use. Could you please clarify which ones you’re using? Are you using a concert Bb chanter to play along with modern music? Or are you autotuning or doing something else digitally to match the pipe pitch with concert pitch?
Just wanted to take the time to thank you for that amazing explanation, and to let you know you're doing great work musically! If at all possible I'd love to see some collabs (if you're interested) with some other musicians such as The Phantom Piper- Jane Espie, Matt Willis, The Snake Charmer, Natty Dread, Celtica, the dame of drones Chelsea, and the red hot chili pipers, I think most of y'all would work pretty well together! I also enjoy the bagpipe twist on guns n roses and Metallica! Keep up the great work!
Who ever invented this had a crazy concept of a clarinet. Amazing how people kept it and adopted it, what we now see as an instrument… Im amazed by its shitty annoying tones it makes and by its physics, its design. Humanity are a stunning specie and quite rare at times.
I love your Tik Tok and RU-vid performances. It has rekindled my love for the sound of bagpipes. ❤ P.S. would love to see more collabs with the bucket drummer. 😂👏
By itself it sounds like a duck call.. but together it’s like getting hit by a battalion of beautiful semi trucks in unison. Thank you for the lesson Master Piper 😌
"It's only 9 notes... how hard could it be?" Wait, I need to keep 4 reeds in tune and learn on an entirely different instrument? 9 notes, that's how they get us lol
Love the videos. I have always enjoyed the sound of this instrument. Could you do a video explaining how to pick out bagpipes for someone wanting to learn.
Very good explanation of the workings. You taught me a new way of blowing the drone reeds with the drone attached . That’s a much easier way to test the intonation thanks Ally
I'm in my seventies and I had no idea how the bagpipes worked. You know your instrument and I'll tell you why you have over six hundred thousand subs... you're CUTE and YOU CARE ! I'm fixing to sub, myself. God speed.
Ally you are Amazing i love when you play the bagpipes and I love watching your videos they are Brilliant and you are Gorgeous LOVE you ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
scottish people are weird. they invented an instrument that could replicate the screams of a cat being strangled to death slowly. doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, but whatever. i try not to judge. i mean... as long as they aren't out strangling real cats, right?
Do the drone pipes play different sounds? I saw a bagpipe with one very large drone pipe and two smaller ones. Are there different types of bagpipes, such as, tenor, alto, and soprano?
2:16 Pipe organs work that way too. The entire air supply system is engineered to deliver constant pressure to the pipes, they will go out of tune if the pressure changes.
Oof, I wish RU-vid had recommended this vid for me BEFORE I asked you about “that recorder-like thing”, but I’m very grateful for this informative video. I’ve learned more about bagpipes from you in the last week than in my entire life beforehand, but I still have a lot to learn
Love range of tones you produce. Never heard anyone play the gentler quieter notes you're capable of. I also enjoy your experiments with wild rock music and electric violin collaborations. Would like some Pink Floyd.
My husband was the Bass Drummer of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Pipe Band. My Mum loved the Pipe Music Would have loved to had played them but instead learnt the B flat Flute for our Blue Drums of Croydon Junior Marching Band and taught the youngsters. The youngest one was 7 she now lives in America and I am in regular contact with her and her brother who still lives in England. Memories of our Fairfield Hall appearance in the Guards Spectacular ❤❤
Just watched a video of Glen Campbell on bagpipes. Really good. He can play just about any instrument. Your video explains answers to my question of how they work. Good job. 👏
Please do a video on what to look for when purchasing a bagpipe and approximately how much it would cost. Also, what brand would be a good recommendation if you are buying from Amazon?
Hola, te escribo desde España, soy un amante de Escocía y sus tradiciones y sobre todo de la música con la gaita Escocesa, puedes recomendarme que tipo de gaita comprar? Características, etc…ya he tocado hace años la gaita Asturiana y ahora me gustaría aprender a tocar la gaita Escocesa. Algún lugar de segunda mano o fabricante que me recomiendes? Gracias.
Yo soy de Asturias, Norte de España y aquí la gaita es un símbolo cultural de nuestra historia y folklore. Yo mismu di clases y ser las partes de una gaite.
Thank you! My 4 yr old and I just read the book "Wee Gillis" by Munro Leaf about a boy who plays the biggest bag pipes in all Scotland! And we wanted to see what real bagpipes look and sound like. Thanks for the demonstration, we loved checking out your other videos as well! 👍🏻
Wondering about all of your viewers and subscribers? Beautiful Fantasy Irish Bagpipe girl? Would you come home with me?!?! Geez, just stating the obvious. Nice channel. You'll do well. Tallented.
This was very informative, thank you. I'm a new piper from South Carolina and I looked up the science behind bagpipes and your video popped up first. So I'm glad I viewed it.
And what pray tell is the chanter? With the air pressure, is that because of the reeds that pitch is changed? When you say volume that refers to amplitude or volume, right?
Until I heard you play the pipes a couple of weeks ago. I always thought that bagpipes sounded like I should make a call to the ASPCA and report someone is skinning a cat!. At least now I know it was a Scottish cat!.... Kidding!. Like your sound, lady!👍
This is your first video ive seen and i always thought bagpipes were kinda weird only because i never knew how they worked. Watching this video i think its so cool and cleverly designed that you can breathe whenever you need to because it isnt your mouth pushing the air like other woodwind/brass instruments
Yeah, and this means that, theoretically, you could actually sing and play the bagpipes at the same time, for the precise reason that your mouth blowing does not make the music at all (the bag takes care of that for you). You don't use circular breathing when playing bagpipes either, like some people mistakenly think. If that was the case, you may as well ditch the bag, because then it has no real use! and Then you don't have a bagpipe anymore!
Sounds on "chanter" pipe I understand. Can the 3 "goose pipes" be made silent? Arm forcing bag changes tone not volume! My ears don' hear difference. Does "tone" = "notes" like A B C D E F G? It is a very interesting instrument.
How do you clean bagpipes?? Cleaning other woodwind and brass instruments are already fairly difficult to clean, so I can't imagine cleaning the bagpipes.
Nice. That was a good first look. I didn't even now that much. ... Now, the scale. Is it a single fixed octave (maybe tunable)? Or are there multiple octaves based on a 'range' hole or do you play a different octave with a different force of air? Are the pipes tuned to a chord? They look like two of equal length and one longer. Are they a chord or the same note but since there are three, extra full? Or are they a few steps apart? Are the pipes chords with different notes played on the cantor? And finally, you said the pipes are tunable. Must all of them be tuned with respect to each other and also with respect to the cantor?
Nice simple description. My little question is this: What is the purpose of that last little squeeze you give the bag before you put it under your arm? I am also convinced there is something “genetic” about bagpipe music. I don’t need any ancestry app to tell me where I am from. My mop of red hair and the boil in my blood when a bagpipe plays even a single note is all the proof I need. (My last name and my mothers maiden name go along way too!)
This is one of the most clear explanations on how a bagpipe works that I've ever seen. Add a fingering guide for the notes and you have a perfect video.
From a sound recording point of view, where would an engineer place the microphones to best capture the sound? In other words, where does the sound come out of the drones, and the chanter?
Sorry one if not one of the worst instruments haha makes a horrible sound always sounds out of tune but thats just how they are. Just another opinion 😂
So would you be able to change out the drones to change they key? Also I had no clue that a bag pipe was a wood wind instrument… not sure really what it was tbh
