Piper Ally - New Passion for Traditional Bagpipe Music

[@PiperAlly]

Thank you so much for putting this together! It was a pleasure to speak with you and chat about all things music and heritage. 😊

[@MrKandu4u]

I love her videos, it's wonderful when I see young people with passion and she's so passionate about her music and craft. Thanks Ally and thanks to everyone at USA Kilts and please keep up the GREAT WORK youn's are doing thanks.

[@theghostly7]

been following her for a while. very talented.

[@celticblood4010]

" She wanted to find something more challenging than the woodwinds" LOL! I play 6 different instruments. Tried the bagpipes and couldn't do it! For me they were pretty difficult. She's definitely very talented, and what an amazing voice!

[@patgarrett3746]

She is an awesome young lady! I just bought her new album.

[@kiltedskipper]

I have been supporting here for quite a while now, and I love to see that Kilts & Culture do as well.

[@adamclancy3037]

She is simply amazing!!

[@kiltedbroshar4187]

Lol she was looking for Scottish/ kilt groups on Facebook. So I sent her a list & yall were at the top of that list. Lol

[@williamsmith5340]

Very befully music 🎶

[@JBrooksNYS]

People that know I play pipes are always texting me her TikToks. She must be pretty popular. Good for her

[@sethwarner644]

Wow, that was beautiful

[@sougotokiwa8439]

Incredible

[@staceypaquette5483]

Saw her at the Suncoast Renni Fair!

[@OcculiMortis]

Right on, good for her🤘.

[@modwolf55]

I have been following her in insta for a while.

[@bluescelt5317]

By the time Ally finished competing she was a grade one piper.

[@kennethwelsby2143]

I wish you well friend. If you are familiar with Spitfire Audio VST libraries, they have some very nice exotic flute libraries with their Originals series which are very good for mixing in Logic Pro, CuBase or whatever DAW you're using. Your execution of your playing is outstanding. I used to play the Pipes in the Army, when much younger of course. God bless you, enjoy the journey.

[@balto1217]

Yes, she is a very talented musician indeed! What has caught my eye in this video is the outfit displayed on the mannequin on the right side of the screen. That is a beautiful tartan, what is it?

[@westieweardogkilts9715]

Hey guys, thank you for this. Was just alerted that today is Interntaional Bagpipe Day and went' looking for an Ally clip for my FB page and came across this video. :)

[@westieweardogkilts9715]

and now I'm following you as well haha. Ally is my fave piper. Hope we can kilt up her dogs one day. 🥰🤩

[@christopherperkins761]

Ally the piper is Scottish and Irish descendent so am I

[@lundrobin4421]

Is it true that pipes come with 2 and 3 pipes?

[@Marcblur]

Yes. Most bagpipes will have a few pipes, at least three, but often more. So, what you see her playing for most of the video is a set of mouthblown Scottish smallpipes. Outside of the blowpipe, the pipes/tubes it has are called the chanter and drones. The chanter is the melody pipe you put your fingers on. The drone pipe gives the humming sound and usually tunes to the main melody note of the chanter scale. In a do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do scale, the bass drone will match "do" an octave below the smallpipe chanter and the tenor will play "do" in the same octave. A third pipe/drone will often match "so" an octave below the chanter, between the bass and tenor, sometimes "fa". BUT...the big pipes you see her playing are set up a little differently. The chanter/melody pipe is higher pitch than on the Scottish smallpipe, so the tenor drone/pipe is an octave below that and the bass drone is two octaves below it. Highland pipes don't use a baritone drone, so they have two tenor drones and a bass drone to accompany the chanter. Each pipe has a reed in the bag end of it that is producing the sound. There are lots of different bagpipes in many countries (Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, Tunisia, Iraq, etc.) and the all have different drone and chanter configurations. You can have a lot of fun typing in the name of a country + bagpipe and see all the varieties.

[@anthonystike6034]

I follow her on Instagram. She is great.

[@davidatkins6553]

She's actually known as ARIEL you know the beautiful mermaid 😂 get it right man 🤔 I'm her biggest Aussie fan 🇦🇺 🤔 I should know 💯♥️✝️

[@christopherperkins761]

Your a creeper