Stella splendens on bellows blown hümmelchen bagpipe

[@reneznvanmoerkerken]

Great ! Thx 4 Posting. René.

[@MabInstruments]

I enjoyed listening to the pipes and singing. When you squeeze the bellow, the large drone pipe almost hits you in the face.

[@zdenekseidl6592]

It looks like it but it doesn't almost hit me. The drone is actually far ahead of my head.

[@MabInstruments]

@@zdenekseidl6592 , I'm glad to hear that.

[@donalddavidson3354]

Great stuff as always - not enough pipe singing in the world! Do you know anything about the history/philosophy of the "cannoneer" drones that point forward? I'm always for giving the audience more drone, but I'm curious why this was abandoned. The "staghorn" common stock for the drones is also interesting; I'd think it would be easier back in the day to make the round common stock now used on border pipes and smallpipes. The "staghorn" design certainly is visually appealing, though!

[@justinnaramor6050]

This just goes to show why bellows-blown bagpipes are so cool... you can sing while playing them! Try doing that on mouth-blown pipes (I.E highland bagpipe-style instruments, where you inflate the bag with air from your mouth)... it won't work. Or at least not very well. I suppose you could inflate the bag, and squeeze it like normal and then do some singing (or talking, I've heard some people do that) while the bag still has enough air stored inside it, but that won't last long at all (unless the pipes somehow don't require that much air to begin with, or unless the bag is really, really big), because you'd have to stop singing to then re-inflate the bag... I think you get the point. But when the bag is inflated by bellows (or by any other method that doesn't involve your mouth at all; for example someone on KZbin managed to inflate a bagpipe bag with an electric blower!), the bag will always get inflated even while you sing! How cool is that? :))) This concept is really cool to me, because I used to think bagpipes were played via the mouth (like every other wind instrument, say saxophones or flutes or whatever), but boy was I wrong! Really, you actually play bagpipes with your arm. If your mouth is used, it is there only to supply air to the bag, and the bag then delivers that supplied air to the sound-making pipes when the bag is squeezed or pressed on by your arm. So that means you have absolutely zero control over the delivery of the musical notes with your mouth like you would on other wind instruments. Guess I wasn't educated enough on bagpipes earlier in my life :))) And now this comment is getting way too long :))))))))))))))))))

[@rainbenkennaz6173]

I think some zampogna players sing while playing

[@justinnaramor6050]

@@rainbenkennaz6173 Interesting. Is the Zampogna a bellows-blown instrument? Or mouth-blown? I don't actually remember; there are so many types of bagpipes in the world it's a bit difficult to remember the characteristics of all of them. The zampogna was mentioned in the stuff I've read but I don't remember that much about it.

[@rainbenkennaz6173]

@@justinnaramor6050 its mouth blown, and while it has multiple sizes, the biggest bag could be up to two meters in length

[@justinnaramor6050]

@@rainbenkennaz6173 2 meters in length? That's really large! So that would be what, 6 feet? Because I think one meter is like 3 feet or something. Sorry, I'm not that great at using the metric system of measurement :)))

[@luthval]

Very nice instrument. Is the chanter chromatic ?

[@zdenekseidl6592]

Almost. I think this one played c,cis,d,dis,f,fis, g,a,b,h,c,cis,d.

[@luthval]

@@zdenekseidl6592 Thank you for your answer. Very nice instrument.

[@kavikv.d.hexenholtz3474]

Awesome sounding pipes, but seem awfully clumsy to play

[@zdenekseidl6592]

It is my fault. I don't play bellows blown bagpipe normally and I had only two days to learn it.