I got a new Toy!
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Topic: I got a new Toy!
Posted By: WGP guy2
Subject: I got a new Toy!
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 10:09pm
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As I mentioned in another thread, I'm learning a new instrument. The bagpipe!   My roommate is sure to love this, Tolga already said he enjoys my chanter playing.  |
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 10:10pm
| I just see the pipe. |
Posted By: techietaichi
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 10:12pm
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I thought it was a fancy blowgun. ------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCZWhJCF6Ig"> 
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Posted By: unvolution
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 10:12pm
| lol. have fun. dont come within earshot of me with it. im serious when i say that |
Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 10:13pm
It's called the chanter. It's the part that makes the actual tune, the norm is to practice with that for around a year before moving to a full bagpipe. We'll have to see what my instructor thinks though. Of all the instruments I play this is definitely the hardest (trumpet, piano, guitar) |
choopie911 wrote:Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 10:14pm
| Screw doing it properly, get the full deal and just go for it full force. |
Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 10:15pm
Which is what I had planned to do until first of all I realized I don't have $1300 and second I found out it is so difficult to play. |
Posted By: Ace_Of_Spades
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 10:17pm
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i had a bad childhood with bagpipes ------------- 
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Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 10:22pm
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I've never understood the hatred people have towards bagpipes. They are beautiful sounding when played right, it's just when they're slightly out of tune or a not so good piper that they sound horrible. Here is a relatively easy bagpipe piece that sounds pretty good: http://youtube.com/watch?v=3n9hbYwZZqk - http://youtube.com/watch?v=3n9hbYwZZqk And here is a more complicated piece that sounds even better, the top bands in the world. http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tzxu-Ee_-zg - http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tzxu-Ee_-zg I can see someone not liking the music but I think for the post part the hatred of the sound is unfounded. |
Posted By: Evil Elvis
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 10:45pm
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When my Battalion Landing Team was in Tirane Albania in Operation Silver Wake. We had this Major Dude who would Play the Bag Pipes. I swear that he swore he was cool as hell but to us who had been on watch tired and getting rained on he was the biggest douche bag for playing that thing. We where hoping that the fabled 8 o'clock sniper would shoot a hole in that damn thing. ------------- 
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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 10:46pm
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Dear god, why? ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 10:47pm
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 10:53pm
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And on this note, I've decided to hold off on the accordion until I get better at the gee-tar and harmonica. ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: .357 Magnum
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 11:25pm
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It needs a bag.
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Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 11:30pm
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I think a bagpipe is one instrument that evoke very strong emotions very quickly with their sound/music. anyone who has been to a funeral with one can probably back me up. |
Posted By: .357 Magnum
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 11:35pm
So true, at my Grandpas funeral a few years back I didn't even get watery eyes, the second that bagpipe started my eyes teared up. Thats the odd thing, I love that music, but at the same time it makes you sad. -------------
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Posted By: Darur
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 11:42pm
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Rosewood chanter? Don't be cheap, pick up a decent blackwood chanter. Your not going to stop practicing on it when you get a full set. If you don't want to pick up one of those, at least get a decent polypenco chanter, thats what I started on. What book are you learning out of? ------------- Real Men play Tuba [IMG]http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1859/newsmall6xz.jpg"> PH33R TEH 1337 Dwarf! http://www.tippmann.com/forum/wwf77a/log_off_user.asp" rel="nofollow - DONT CLICK ME!!1 |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 11:52pm
Cello does a fine job too. And piano. |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 26 June 2008 at 11:59pm
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So does the world's smallest violin! ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 27 June 2008 at 12:10am
Didn't know what I was buying really. I equated rosewood with a quality guitar wood so I figure it would be good. I'll probably spring for a McCallum practice chanter in a few weeks. The chanter actually sounds good though, it scales fine (at least according to my guitar tuner). I'm going to see what my instructor says before I buy anything else. I'm lucky I didn't buy a set of cheap paki pipes like I thought I should. I've learned better. I've got enough to spring for a blackwood chanter, but I've decided to save up now so by Christmas I can get a blackwood bagpipe. |