![]() ![]() I dropped in at their booth and posed my question, and learned some very interesting things from a man there. Now, one group which is always at the Mini Maker Faire is The Crucible, an Oakland non-profit specializing in art production involving fire. I asked the guy about the bagpipes, but he said no, he didn't know anything about flaming bagpipes. Mini Maker Faires usually have flame-throwers somewhere this one had a guy (from Sheet Metal Alchemist) with a tower of flamethrowers you could set them off by swinging a mallet at a lever, just like the old "ring the bell" carny act, except this one produces a huge burst of flame in the air above you. I spent part of last weekend at the East Bay Mini Maker Faire in Oakland, California. This leaves a huge question in my mind: how the devil do you blow a huge blast of flame through a wooden reed or double reed instrument without incinerating the whole boiling, and the bagpiper too? And yet both of these bagpipers continued to play while intermittently shooting bursts of flame out of the drones. This explains a lot about the way bagpipes sound, actually. And I definitely learned from Wikipedia that bagpipe drones are either reed instruments (like a clarinet) or double-reed instruments (like an oboe). But to the best of my knowledge, the chanter (the one the piper fingers) and the drones are made of wood, although Wikipedia doesn't confirm this directly. Now, I like bagpipes, a taste I inherited from my mother not everyone does. You can find more videos, if you're interested, by searching for "flaming bagpipes" on YouTube. Unicycling Darth Vader Upgrades to Flaming Bagpipes Drones are the pipes which stick out of the bags and produce a single tone each. The playing, pipes and other instruments, is nice enough with some intriguing arrangements.Over the last couple of months I've seen two short videos posted on Facebook, in which bagpipe players, playing their instruments, caused bursts of flame to come out of the drones. I have to confess the tunes themselves don’t grab me to the point I want to learn them - the one I most like on the album is Matt’s own stirring air “Lindisfarne”. It is evidently a compendium of Border Pipe tunes and variations. She snatched it out - hence this album’s title - and duly kept it. ![]() This MS had been known about for some time - a biography of one of its owners published in the 1920s reveals that he offered to give it to a lady visitor but was offended by her offer to buy it to the extent that he threw it in the fire. England these were a bellows-blown instrument with the same 9 - note range as the Highland pipes, which went out of use in the c19 and are currently being revived.įive tracks, which I have denoted with a D, comprise tunes taken from the Dixon Manuscript, written in Northumberland in 1733 or within a few years afterwards. On this 1999 album (label, Discipline Global Mobile DGM 9907) he has recorded mainly music that would have been played on the Border Bagpipes of S. Matt Seattle is a well-respected fiddle and bagpipe player from the NE of England. ![]()
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