Northern Triplepipe by Montisci & Brown: Bass Iona in D - No.8

[@Muzikman127]

fucking dope, banger of an instrument

[@woodsmanthepeasant]

Hello! I love your videos. It is so good to see someone delving into historically accurate instruments. I can only imagine how difficult this is. You are helping to show how musically rich our past was.

[@moellersworkshop2116]

Such extraordinary sound from such an unassuming instrument! And Barnaby breaths life into it by his extensive experience with tuning to harmonia, "lucky, got it the first time!" Nope, luck had nothing to do with it my friend, your talents amaze me. Thank you for making this video!

[@georgerichardson7560]

Amazing video! Thanks for posting! The instruments bears a lot of resemblance in build and sound to the Egyptian Argul. It's truly fascinating all different journeys individual musical instruments have taken over the course of human history! Keep playing and posting :)

[@seaforthpiper]

Barnaby: Thank you for posting these videos - I'm slowly gaining ground with both my Ardchattan and Bass Iona. Rob

[@Iranianjunkie]

I have tried playing Arghul. And I impressed with your circular breathing into 3 pipes.

[@chehotrao]

Launeddas holes are square because they are easier to cut that way in cane, using the same knife with which one makes the reeds. Research was done, Pitano Perra informed me some years ago, suggesting that square holes produce a better sound than round holes; but I don't know if this research was published or what methodology was used.

[@robloeffen7644]

You do good!!

[@copperleaves]

The great 20th century music pioneer, Clara Rockmore, once said, “First have music in your soul. If you have THAT, you will find a way to do it.” Everyone thinks they have music in their soul simply because they love music, but it is actually quite rare. Barnaby Brown definitely has music in his soul and he has definitely found a way to do it! 😀

[@chehotrao]

Thanks! No tunes survive, I'm attempting to compose repertoire that has identifiably Northern characteristics (using Highland pibroch and Welsh cerdd dant as my inspiration). However, understanding the unbroken oral tradition of the launeddas has been vital to my voyage. By moving the holes, creating a new 'cunzertus', I deny myself the chance of playing traditional Sardinian repertoire: I am forced to compose new music.

[@michaelkazmierskidunn7189]

So is there a reason why the bass drone and the alto chanter can't be played separately? Every time you play the lower pitched chanter the bass drone is running too. What's going on? While I LOVE the zampogna, I'm very new to the Triplepipes.

[@dmarker21]

Great videos. I play the zampogna and can sympathize with dealing with single cane reeds and wax in the finger holes! (though I've never been able to figure out why the launedda "holes" are rectangle!) But I can't relate to the circular breathing! I saw Luigi Lai play this past summer when I was in Italy. It was great. I didn't realize that this instrument was once played in the British isles. Did any of the tunes survive, or are you just playing Italian tunes?

[@GypsyVanner24]

These two videos have been a tremendous help as I slowly learn to play...but please tell me what is the best way to apply wax to the fingerholes and reed-tongues. Cheers Rob

[@royfearn4345]

Very Celtic. I love it.

[@borelandfamily]

Where can you get those triplepipes? Those are bag-less bagpipes! It seems!

[@KingfisherLtd]

So basically it's kind of an ancestor of the bagpipes?

[@Gkogkas]

Greetings from Hellas🇬🇷🇬🇷

[@seaforthpiper]

How does one ADD wax to the reed-tongue or the tone holes? I've been making rather a mess, what with hot wax all of the place...

[@croutonfada]

A very late reply, but I was wondering if you made the pipes yourself or bought them and are you still playing them?

[@FrancescPunsola]

The awesome thing of that instrument is that it doesn't need any intustry to build it. After a apocalypse you may still playing a pipes meanwhile you know how cut it and arrange to performance.

[@Muzikman127]

"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" - Northern Triplepipe, 2009

[@LancasteRoentegen]

Sounds like uilleann pipes

[@sonerbihan]

Launeddas in fact, descending from the Aulos, and curiously very close to the calabrese Zampogna, with a bag Full harmony

[@valeriolaghi7014]

Launeddas