----- Original Message ----- From: "Reggie Bautista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 7:57 PM Subject: Re: Oh Yeah!
> Doug wrote: > >I love the intro to "This Holy Ground" from the Traffic album Far From > >Home. It sounds like bagpipes to me, but I seem to remember looking at the > >credits and finding that it was something else that I had never heard of > >and can't recall at the moment (and I can't find the CD). Does anyone here > >know? The album isn't classic Traffic, it's a reunion of Winwood and > >Capaldi recorded in 1994. > > Those would be uilleann pipes. Have you ever seen the original video tape > of Riverdance? There's a guy in the band who plays pipes with a bellows > under one arm which pumps air into the bag under another arm, and their are > no drone pipes, just melody. That's uilleann pipes. It's an Irish version > of the bagpipes. Just like the regular bagpipes, drones can be used, but > very often they are not (at least in my experience). > > Another type of pipes often played with no drones that has been used on some > songs by Sting is the northumbrian pipes, used on a few tunes on the _Soul > Cages_ album. > > Then there are border pipes/lowland pipes, with are a smaller, quieter > version of the highland pipes, more suited to playing with fiddles, etc. Thats why I love Horslips, all those instuments and its rock music too. <G> > > There is yet another version of the bagpipes played in parts of France which > sounds very middle-eastern, but I don't remember what those are called. > Farts, very popular where ever legumes are eaten. xponent My Little Toot Toot Maru rob ________________________________ You are a fluke of the universe. You have no right to be here. And whether you can hear it or not, the universe is laughing behind your back. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
