The Prince's Salute - Michael Grey - bagpipes and canntaireachd

[@pemacal57]

Cantaireachd….the lenguage of Pibroc’h…..AMAZING

[@dublinpiper]

Please, oh please, put up more Canntaireachd and bagpipes like this... this is the most perfect, easiest way to learn it, we can read it, hear the Canntaireachd, and the pipes, all at once - just as in days past - please do more of this, or show us where to go for something similar

[@leoburns9674]

What a wonderful performance - Michael Grey, such a wonderful performance… inspiring! 👏👏👏

[@heretichunter74]

Like always, thank you Mr. Grey.

[@dunaber]

:-)

[@stewartgillis4851]

An Act of Worship.The Spirit soars.

[@minina3425]

Gorgeous St. Kilda, made even more magical through the sounds of the great bagpipe and cannteraichd. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️

[@SupersonicTartanDeathMachine1]

Would love to see a series of these with the cantaireachd. Somewhat mesmerizing ☺️

[@lesliethomson2441]

Hear Hear

[@bosmacbos2037]

by already knowing the tune, I found this video is great for learning formal canntaireachd

[@jean77martin]

Lovely recording. It made finding the rhythm in the written scores so much easier.

[@RangerRick2024]

Wooooow sound amazing true 🥁🥁🎶🎶🎶

[@kayleighjohnstone7757]

My mom really enjoyed it

[@Allentaorluath]

absoluty awessome

[@eduardocofrancesco4373]

💙💙💙💙

[@perrypiobaireachd]

Love ❤️ this ! It would be nice if they did a album or albums of this

[@SupersonicTartanDeathMachine1]

Love it.

[@dunaber]

+Supersonic Tartan Death Machine - just as I would expect - and hope - from any Supersonic Tartan Death Machine! Merci beaucoup!

[@eduardocofrancesco4373]

💙

[@ruaraidhpetre]

Hey, this is great, thanks for posting it. I just set out to learn this tune, so this is useful. Ruaraidh (the springbok bag guy)

[@dunaber]

+Ruaraidh Petre - good luck springbok bag guy. And thank you!

[@ruaraidhpetre]

+Michael Grey What do you think of playing the variation and doubling down?

[@dunaber]

+Ruaraidh Petre - I think that is good music, too. So this tune, The Prince's Salute, is in the upper tier of tunes in the big music repertoire that see pipers deviate (argue/fight/get in a huff) as to what they imagine to be "correct" phrasing. So in the name of piping provenance, I guess I should say where I got this tune: Bill Livingstone taught met this tune (he won his first Clasp at Inverness in 1981 with this tune). He learned the tune from a number of sources, including some informal insight from Bob Hardie. Bill's rendition at the Northern Meeting the year of his performance was among the unforgettable.

[@ruaraidhpetre]

+Michael Grey haha, not much danger of me pontificating or getting into a huff! I just looked at the tune in binneas is boreraig and listened to Donald Macleod's tutorial, hence the question. I'm not sure how much "correct" means if something sounds beautiful. I find this tune beautiful both ways, really a lovely tune. As for competing - you won't see me doing that any time soon!

[@Karim-vg7lt]

Salut bas et honorable aux princes de cean. Je voudrais poser une question ou deux concernant ce "clip" : Mais qu'est-ce qui est arrive aux habitants de ce village?

[@dunaber]

Merci. Les habitants de l'île ont été évacués en 1930 et réinstallés dans d'autres parties de l'Écosse. La vie était devenue invivable pour les gens qui y vivaient. Voir : kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6Gzo62hpJZqiJo

[@philippetaylor306]

Love it and great initiative that will permit to some people better understanding of what canntaiearchd is; just on point: I have always heard the "e" pronounced like the French "é" by my professor and even heard Barnaby Brown pronounced the same, otherwise it is very difficult to make a difference between an "e" and a "i", "he" and "hi", "ve" and "vi". What is your opinion?

[@dunaber]

+Philippe Taylor - Thanks a lot! We talked the "i" / "e" thing for high A at a workshop in Ontario last Saturday. And surely this is the height of bagpipe parochialism - but good fun :) For me, I take that "i" as a signal to sound "i" as in "hio": long "e" sound. The pitch variance looks after the sonic difference - Campbell's written i / e help the transcribers. Though, tip of the hat and much respect to the true scholars.

[@RichardDCook]

@@dunaber I'm no expert, but many years ago a Gaelic speaker/scholar who was also played pipes a bit recommended that the vowels be give their Gaelic values, thus hi and he would sound quite different "hee" and "heh" in English more or less. He also gave "ch" its Gaelic pronunciation but I don't know how much respect such a viewpoint would have. His point was that Canntaireachd was originally written solely by Gaelic speakers, who would have not the slightest reason to give letters their English values.

[@heretichunter74]

Thumbs down guy got beat by Michael. 😆 Twice.

[@dunaber]

I laughed - well played. Happy hunting!