--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > Pedal point represents the unmanifest?? > > > > Dunno about the pedal point; anybody know what kind > > of music they were playing? > > One of the tunes reminded me of "Auld Lang Syne", but > I'm not at all sure whether it was that.
It's possible. Robert Burns probably borrowed the melody from an old Scots folk song called "The Miller's Wedding." > > But the bagpipe may have originated in India as > > early as 1500 B.C. Whether it was invented there > > or not, it did originate somewhere in the Middle > > East in ancient times, and it's been a common folk > > instrument in India for millennia. Citations, please, especially for the last sentence, and the last word in the sentence. I had a friend (Robin Williamson) who was rather an authority on musical instruments, being the master of many of them. The only non-Celtic links he could ever find to the East for the bagpipe were rumors (that is, never any actual instruments) that the Sumerian bagpipes had worked their way East, transported there by Celtic travelers. In other words, this rap sounds to me like yet another of those Maharishi-inspired fantasies about all things valuable having had their origination in India. :-) As for their appearance in the "ceremonies," I still hold to my theory that Maharishi can't tell the differ- ence between true ancient India and the India of the British Raj. They're all muddled up in his mind as some pastiche fantasy of a better age in the past. I saw many instances of this in the time I was working with him on publications. He'd look at drawings of buildings and declare, "That is Vedic," and the building would turn out to be a drawing of one of the British Raj's administrative headquarters. He's impressed by pomp and ceremony, and thinks it impresses others. And the pomp and ceremony he grew up with was British. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
