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From: Jack Campin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 2:24 AM
Subject: Re: [scots-l] Stock and horn
> I heard Robin Huw Bowen and a couple of pals playing these at the
> Edinburgh Harp Festival a while ago. So somebody in Wales makes
> them (I think Robin told a story about getting his made, the maker
> was remarkably eccentric). They sounded more like the Turkish mey
> than a bombarde, i.e. a bit softer and more clarinet-like. The
> Welsh word is "pibgorn".
>
I think John Tose is making pibgorn, apart from new "Welsh" bagpipes.
Anyway, that instrument would be part of the same family - hornpipes - but
not a proper stock-and-horn.
Another alternative is to buy a "alboka" whis is the Basque one, having two
melody-pipes and played, like most hornpipes, with circular breathing.
The "Turkish" sound it's caused by the kind of reed used, a single-reed. The
stock-and-horn I guess would sound different, a bit louder having a double
reed but not so much, having a cylindrical bore of relative lenght.
Anyway, it would be interesting to hear of someone making these old
instruments again.
Manuel Waldesco
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