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SouthernMost Piper’s

Pipe Major — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:01:36 +0000

Just ran into 2 Bagpipers playing in Mallory Square in Key West, Florida.

Key West just happens to be the most southern point in the continental United States. It is only 90 miles north of Cuba.

I always said I would retire and just bagpipe full time in the Keys. Guess someone beat me to it :)

Andrew playing the pipes at bagpipe camp

Pipe Major — Sat, 17 May 2008 03:59:16 +0000

Magyar Dudazenekar: Dudásom, dudásom… The Hungarian Bagpipe Band: Bagpiper, My Bagpiper…

Pipe Major — Sat, 17 May 2008 03:57:02 +0000

Complementing the Duda (Hungarian Bagpipe) playing on this CD release is some fine singing and other traditional folk music instruments.
Boosting members such as Sándor Csoóri (ex-Muzsikás, now with Ifjú Muzsikás) and György Lányi (Téka Ensemble) this bag-pipe project was always going to produce something interesting. Formed in 1989 they have learnt their folk music from the undisputed masters of the Hungarian Duda: Imre Seres (Közeptúr, Hont region ,Transylvania), János Szikora (Palást, Hont region, Transylvania), and István Pál (Tereske, Nógrád region, Transylvania). The work of these master live on in the recording by the Hungarian Bagpipe Band.
On their concerts they show the leather bagpipe and the bagpipers tunes and make the public aquainted with the traditions and legends which connected with this mistycal instrument. Their first album compilated 15’th years performances.

István Adorján – bagpipe, chained staff
Botond Bese – bagpipe, voice
Sándor Csoóri Jr. – bagpipe
Balázs Istvánfi – bagpipe, koboz
Zoltán Karakas – kanásztülök, voice
József Kozák – bagpipe, flute, drum, bass bagpipe
György Lányi – bagpipe, voice, drum, bzugony
Dongó Szokolay – bagpipe
Végh Andor – bagpipe, turkish whistle
Károly Vladár – bagpipe, voice
Szilvia Bognár – voice
Boglárka Csonka – voice
Orsolya Strack – voice

Master Gaita – Bagpipe fingering MIDI controller

Pipe Major — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:03:01 +0000

Introduction:

Far from being a simple practice chanter, Master Gaita ® is a simple but powerful tool that lets to use the bagpipe fingering to get into and control the MIDI universe, and also to open new ways faced to the learning of bagpipe technique and music. When connected to a computer with its own program, you can, not only to play with any instrument’s sound but also perform with traditional bagpipes’ sound. This is done by using recorded and prepared samples to get a quite near reality sound. The control of the sound volume lets the performance at any time during the day without worring about posible disturbs that the bagpipe loud sound might produce.

The instrument is strongly made on a PVC tube with nine extremely sensitive tactile devices, so only the smooth contact of a finger resting on any of them is needed to activate them. A semi-rigid cable and a little plastic box make the chanter to get firm in a fixed and confortable position as if it were in its stock. A 2.5 meter long cable leaving the plastic box carries the MIDI singnals to the computer or sound module the Master Gaita is connected to.
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