I remember being "forced" to watch this back in 1999(?), on VHS (we had to get special permission from the church to use their TV and VCR; it was a welcome break from usual chanter practice)... It was around the same time my teacher started teaching me the Piobaireachd tunes that he had ... I remember thinking that this program was "overly-sentimental", and that it was just more of the same tartan/shortbread/Bobby Burns stuff that I'd already grown weary of ... But, now that I'm a little bit older, this presentation brings back old lessons from the back of my mind... yes, it is a bit "romanticized" and dumbed-down, but it did make an (unconscious) impression on my 19 year old mind... A lot of good quotes in this one, for sure! 👍❤️🏴
Forever and always I'll never forget Alasdair and Angus playing an amplified electronic chanter setup someone had brought along to the St. Andrew's College piping camp in ONT during the Thursday night cèilidh. The twist? Angus played the bottom hand and Alasdair played the top hand ................ perfectly!!!!! RIP Alasdair!
A development... Utilikilt wearers might consider strapping a Cold Steel Secret Edge knife for a sgian. It looks like a science fiction sgian dhu and is about that size, intended for discreet carry. Too heavy to just stick in your hose though; you'll have to garter or suspend it some way or deploy a Doc Martens boot for its support. Or, very old school, sling it under your armpit as anciently they did.
16:42 *_The highland bagpipe is the most developed and advanced form of bagpipe in the world._* ... It were _British military historians_ on TV and in books who told us that Japanese sword "Katana", a.k.a. Samurai sword, were the best, finest and European Medieval swords dull, clumsy and just terrible. HEMA came and nuked every European sword myth from orbit. Japanese sword experts came and did the same with "katana supersword" tall tales. It was _British military historians_ again, who claimed "asian martial arts" best and European boxing "unsophisticated" - MMA came and blew those "expert opinions" out of the water! Ain't British military historians tired to be wrong so many times??? Because here we have, again, a British military historian claiming "the most developed and advanced form of bagpipe in the world!"... 😄😁 Didn't age well, dear British military historians, did it?
@@traildogisla *_What do you propose as an alternative to that statement then?_* My statement would sound more like _""The highland bagpipe is the most cultivated bagpipe in the world with its ritualistic presentation culture and its playing technique raised to an artform of its own.""_ If we go by the original statement, it raises the question, where that supposed "greatest development and advancement" may lie. From a purely technical point of view, the Great Highland Bagpipe (GHB) plays a diatonic scale which approximates the modern A-major. Really nothing to write home about, especially if compared to chromatic capabilities of Gaita Gallega, Cornemuse du Centre, Uilleann Pipes, etc. Maybe it's the tuning? Not quite. Its D and High G are traditionally tuned in a way which is considered out of tune by modern standards. During the last decades pipers tuned their pipes (D's and High G's) more along the lines of just intonation, but this is also nothing special. What makes GHB so famous and so artistically exceptional, is really its playing techniques (gracings) and the repertoire, because these are nothing short of an artform of its own.
I remember being "forced" to watch this back in 1999(?), on VHS (we had to get special permission from the church to use their TV and VCR; it was a welcome break from usual chanter practice)... It was around the same time my teacher started teaching me the Piobaireachd tunes that he had ... I remember thinking that this program was "overly-sentimental", and that it was just more of the same tartan/shortbread/Bobby Burns stuff that I'd already grown weary of ...
But, now that I'm a little bit older, this presentation brings back old lessons from the back of my mind... yes, it is a bit "romanticized" and dumbed-down, but it did make an (unconscious) impression on my 19 year old mind...
A lot of good quotes in this one, for sure! 👍❤️🏴
Forever and always I'll never forget Alasdair and Angus playing an amplified electronic chanter setup someone had brought along to the St. Andrew's College piping camp in ONT during the Thursday night cèilidh. The twist? Angus played the bottom hand and Alasdair played the top hand ................ perfectly!!!!! RIP Alasdair!
Was just looking for the tune "When the Pipers Play."
Found this.
Saw this.
Wasn't disappointed.
Marina nib
Angus McColl..was, is and will be a reference, a MASTER, ....a BAGPIPER
Scotsmen Pipers - Brave and true, down to the dirk in their stocking.
No Dirk's in stockings, wouldn't fit! 😁
BIG stocking 😄... scary big Scot!
A development... Utilikilt wearers might consider strapping a Cold Steel Secret Edge knife for a sgian. It looks like a science fiction sgian dhu and is about that size, intended for discreet carry. Too heavy to just stick in your hose though; you'll have to garter or suspend it some way or deploy a Doc Martens boot for its support. Or, very old school, sling it under your armpit as anciently they did.
Laughable subtitles. Interesting programme, remember seeing it when broadcast originally.
Bunch of fuckin' legends in this vid, matey!
Unfortunately for Angus he had to contend with alasdair gillies.
Brillo
16:42 *_The highland bagpipe is the most developed and advanced form of bagpipe in the world._* ... It were _British military historians_ on TV and in books who told us that Japanese sword "Katana", a.k.a. Samurai sword, were the best, finest and European Medieval swords dull, clumsy and just terrible. HEMA came and nuked every European sword myth from orbit. Japanese sword experts came and did the same with "katana supersword" tall tales. It was _British military historians_ again, who claimed "asian martial arts" best and European boxing "unsophisticated" - MMA came and blew those "expert opinions" out of the water! Ain't British military historians tired to be wrong so many times??? Because here we have, again, a British military historian claiming "the most developed and advanced form of bagpipe in the world!"... 😄😁
Didn't age well, dear British military historians, did it?
What do you propose as an alternative to that statement then?
@@traildogisla
*_What do you propose as an alternative to that statement then?_*
My statement would sound more like _""The highland bagpipe is the most cultivated bagpipe in the world with its ritualistic presentation culture and its playing technique raised to an artform of its own.""_
If we go by the original statement, it raises the question, where that supposed "greatest development and advancement" may lie. From a purely technical point of view, the Great Highland Bagpipe (GHB) plays a diatonic scale which approximates the modern A-major. Really nothing to write home about, especially if compared to chromatic capabilities of Gaita Gallega, Cornemuse du Centre, Uilleann Pipes, etc.
Maybe it's the tuning? Not quite. Its D and High G are traditionally tuned in a way which is considered out of tune by modern standards. During the last decades pipers tuned their pipes (D's and High G's) more along the lines of just intonation, but this is also nothing special.
What makes GHB so famous and so artistically exceptional, is really its playing techniques (gracings) and the repertoire, because these are nothing short of an artform of its own.
@@proterium2533 a very fair and interesting answer! Thanks