Talk:Bagpipes

Musical mode

What Musical mode are bagpipes in? 23:01, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Refer to the articles about specific types of pipes for details of tuning, as different kinds of pipes have different kinds of tuning. If you're asking for the Great Highland Bagpipes (GHB) and Scottish smallpipes (SSP), it's the Myxolydian scale (major scale with a flat 7th). MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:20, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, I think that would be good to have in the article. Bubba73 ^{(You talkin' to me?)}, 16:16, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Is the Bagpipe a reed aerophone?

I know the bagpipe is an odd instrument, but I was wondering why it's not considered a reed aerophone (like the clarinet). Just making sure before I put it into Category:Reed_aerophones. yuor faec (talk) 19:45, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

All members of the bagpipe family are indeed reed aerophones (some single-reed, some double-reed). The only way they differ from the clarinet or oboe is the the bagpipe has (in almost all cases) multiple "clarinets" or "oboes" inserted into a bag which supplies the air to work the reeds. Rather than just this one article, maybe best to put the whole Category:Bagpipes so that all the bagpipe variants, as a category, fall into your cat. MatthewVanitas (talk) 04:20, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

So it is actually no different than an organ....

Burmese moushog bagpipe?

I'm tracking down info on rare bagpipes to expand WP coverage, and have found one vague mention of what appears to be a Burmese bagpipe, the moushog: here's all I can see of Podnos on GoogleBooks snippet:

“ India has the masak, Burma the moushog. After the fifth century, the invading Saxons of England played the Sweghleot\at, meaning "sounding skin." The Latin term uter (leather bag) is listed in Chart I under Italy as utriculus, ... ”

It's from this book: Theodor H. Podnos (1974). Bagpipes and tunings. Information Coordinators. p. 47. Retrieved 23 April 2011.. If anyone can help dig up clearer data, I'd love to have an article on the furthest-east indigenous bagpipe I've ever heard of. MatthewVanitas (talk) 23:47, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Way too many pictures.

Way. User talk:Unfriend12 00:30, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Notability of the various revivals?

The section on "revivals" is getting a bit long as people add more and more pipes to the list:

“ n recent years many of these pipes have seen a resurgence or revival as musicians have sought them out; for example, the Irish piping tradition, which by the mid 20th century had declined to a handful of master players is today alive, well, and flourishing a situation similar to that of the Asturian gaita, the Galician gaita, the Aragonese gaita de boto, Northumbrian smallpipes, the Breton biniou, the Balkan gaida, the Romanian cimpoi, the Black Sea tulum, the Scottish smallpipes and pastoral pipes, as well as other varieties. ”

Maybe the best way would be to start requiring an RS footnote to indicate that X pipe is undergoing a significant/notable revival? Arguably more than half the bagpipes out there had diminished in popularity going into the 20th century, and are increasing in popularity in the 21st. Rather than list out dozens of pipes, since it's hard to deny pipe X if pipe Y is already on the list, maybe we should set a higher footnoting bar. Thoughs? MatthewVanitas (talk) 20:17, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Perhaps a general note that traditional/historical bagpipes have enjoyed a resurgence... if there is a source for that? I should think there would be, though I don't immediately know where I would have read it. Perhaps in reference to late-20th-century events... may have even been on an album sleeve. User talk:Unfriend12 19:35, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Took a cursory glance at gBooks, and though there are plenty of refs of individual bagpipe revivals, I didn't see one on the overall trend in the first couple pages. Though I did find a recent complaint that the Greek pipes are one of the few still sans-revival... and added that to tsampouna. I agree it would be good to find though, as otherwise it's hard to reckon which of several score reviving pipes rate being mentioned here. MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:55, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Where did the bagpipe originate?

Sorry but this article does not shed any light on the actual origins of the bagpipe. If it originated in many different places independently then say so. If there was a single origin from which all others descended then say that. I'm just very curious but found no answer to that fundamental question here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.69.138.33 (talk) 05:38, 7 May 2012 (UTC)