Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Why bagpipes have a bad name

This blog post came to my attention this morning. I'd like you to focus on the video. If people like this are playing for the uneducated public in high tourist areas like Edinburgh, it's no wonder people don't like bagpipes. It's hard to tell anything about the guy's tuning from the video, but the playing, my God. Lots of crossing noises, not keeping to tunes, and I don't know what happened in Scotland the Brave, besides the obvious fact that it wasn't the same version I learned (since I learned to play it correctly). Ugh.

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