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Does any of you people play the pipes?

Does anyone here like folk music?

Originally Posted by Oggi

Does any of you people play the pipes?

Does anyone here like folk music?

Hi Oggi, welcome

I don't play pipes, but I like different kinds of folk music........ especially Russian


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I do!
I love them! I like pipes!
I am fond of music and of folk music as well!
Oggi,who are your favourites?

As for me, I love Irish and Scottish traditional music.
Mostly Chieftains,
a LOT of Clannad and Dubliners
my icons are Liam O'Flynn and Sharon Shannon,
also Shaun Davey (he writes whole symphonies for ullian-pipes)
Capercallie and Anuna - they amuse me so much!
I simply love Irish songs - their music is incredeable!
And pipes! lots of pipes together!

My absolutelly favourite is English Renaissance music.
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that's the main names excluding lots of classics LOL

Leof -

try getting hold of something by Macumba: pipes, pipes, more pipes, and lots of great percussion - guaranteed to wake you up quickly, even on a cold monday morning

For Uilleann pipes, try Davy Spillane, he's stunning.

As for Irish music, I'm mainly into the dance music (or at least, the "dance-able" music ), so that's more often fiddles, whistles, and harmonica.....





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BabaYaga of course I know Spillane! I know two or three his albums as well. He is perfect, but for me he goes too far of tradition - you know his maner - he often plays in modern rhythmes. He plays with much of electronical music. Although some of his music is very PENETRATING - I mean when it's only pipes and nothing more in the backsound.
Did you see Riverdance Show (M. Flatley/Bill Whelan and team) - I love these music. And I love the music he played there.

Tell,did you ever hear Carlos Nunez? His from Spain and plays incrediable Catalonian and Galicien pipe-tunes!

And thank you for advice - I shall try to hear Macumba.
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Macumba - I firstly wondered why it has so strange name - so they are Mac Umba in real - I tryed them through Amazon - the only what makes me sorry is the bad quality of samples. I always noted that pipes sound with way more effect when they are played alive. None of CD's I've ever heart can reflect them with original sound actually - the feeling when your chest is shaked by the pipes-choir and everything surround you is beating with the rhythm.
And I think Mac Umba sounds great. At least their pipes.
But again I feel I'm more acustomed to classical pipe-music - long tunes and reels but played old way.

Hello Leof!

I like Chieftains very much, but do only occationally listen to them. At home I have 60-70 LPs with pipe music with bands, and with solo pipers. In comparison, I do only have 3 LPs with the Russian Balalaika, and a few with the Norwegian Hardanger Fiddle. To know what this is like, pls visit this page: http://www.HFAA.org/ The American page for the Hardanger Fiddle. I like music, and I have been to Scotland to listen to pipe music there. I do also like Tyrolian and Bavarian music, - music from the German language areas in Europe. When it comes to Scottish Pipe Music I do not have any special favourite, as I started this interest in the 70s, had a break, and continued again in 1997. Visit our band in Oslo:
http://groups.msn.com/ocpb

Oggi I followed your link and liked Norwegian Fiddles very much! Thank you for the links!

To those of you who might be interested, here are two pages of Norwegian folk music:

http://195.159.217.100/grappa/heilo2.as ... ng&sok=geo
http://www.mic.no/english

And the home page of Na Piobairi Uilleann (Irish uilleann pipers):
http://www.pipers.ie/

The Scottish Pipes:
http://www.college-of-piping.co.uk/
http://www.thepipingcentre.co.uk/

Discussion page for the Scottish Pipes:
http://www.bobdunsire.com