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@sandradejong @Dorine024 ha, ja klopt! Goed moment ook, op #InternationalBagpipeDay !

Vandaag is her internationale doedelzakdag en als doedelaar laat ik dat zomaar niet voorbijgaan. Het 13e eeuwse Palästinalied hoor je op mijn nieuwe Vlaamse doedelzakje in A.
Ik speel Palästinalied voor een vrij Palestina en ter nagedachtenis aan de duizenden onschuldige, vermoorde Palestijnen. 🇵🇸🍉

#InternationalBagpipeDay #flemishbagpipes #bagpipes #fromtherivertothesea

🎵 10 March is International Bagpipe Day!

Why to St. Paul’s, my Dear? What make you chuse
A Church that Jacobites and Papists use,
Where English Mass is lyrick’d o’er by Boys,
And Popish Bagpipes make a hideous Noise?

—how 18th-century English satirists used bagpipes to signify Jacobitism & Catholicism, & the threat to the Establishment

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/the-scottish-bagpipe-political-and-religious-symbolism-in-english-literature-and-satire/

#Scottish #literature #culture #18thcentury #jacobites #satire #bagpipes #InternationalBagpipeDay

#InternationalBagpipeDay

It's International Bagpipe Day! Gonnagles play an instrument similar to bagpipes. What is it called and what sound does it make?

#Discworld #DiscworldConvention #TerryPratchett
#InternationalBagpipeDay #Gonnagle #NacMacFeegle

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#FuneralFactFriday: Bagpipes At Funerals

Why do we play bagpipes at funerals, especially for police officers and firefighters?

Bagpipes have roots among the Scottish, Irish, and Celtic (plus others!), and were routinely played at weddings, wakes, and dances. When large groups immigrated to the United States after the Great Potato Famine of the 1800s, they brought their cultural traditions with them.

When they arrived, they were met with prejudice. Unfortunately, many Scottish and Irish men were forced into difficult, dangerous jobs like policing and firefighting. Work related deaths were common. The fallen were honored with the traditions of their homeland, which included mournful bagpipe music. The hauntingly beautiful melodies allowed the normally stoic men to shed their tears.

Over time, police officers and firefighters from different heritages began to request bagpipes too. They liked the solemn dignity of the instrument and the unity it created within their departments. They even developed uniformed bands of pipers, known as Emerald Societies (an homage to the Emerald Isles). Many of the bands have over 60 members!

Bagpipe music has also been adapted for military services and funerals of every day people. We've assimilated the tradition into our cultural melting pot of funeral customs. Bagpipers can be hired to play old standards like Amazing Grace and Oh Danny Boy, or a limited range of popular songs (the instruments have nine notes with no sharps or flats). Sign me up for AC/DC's Thunderstruck!

#HisAndHearsePress #InternationalBagpipeDay #Bagpipes #Irish #Scottish #FuneralTraditions #Funeral #MortuaryScience #EmeraldSociety

A black background with a purple damask frame and a small image of a traditional bagpiper in red tartan and a kilt. Text reads, "Funeral Fact Friday: Bagpipes. When the Great Potato Famine struck Ireland in the 1800s, masses of immigrants fled to the United States. Prejudice against Scottish and Irish people forced them to settle for dangerous jobs like firefighting and policing, and unfortunately, work related deaths were common. The fallen were honored with the traditions of their homeland, including mournful bagpipe music. Bagpipes still retain a close association with police and firefighter funerals, but are also included in our cultural melting pot of funeral customs."

Winner of the most gothic bagpipes video category, Pibau Preseli playing traditional Welsh new year tune Nos Galan, accompanied by images of the Mari Lwyd, with bonus sheep skulls. Unsuitable for chionoandrophobics. ⛄ ☠️ 🐑

Pibau Preseli - Bwre dros y Gyfrwy / Nos Galan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ9kGtUdd84

#InternationalBagpipeDay #WelshBagpipes #pibau #bagpipes #music #MariLwyd #CerddoriaethCymraeg #FolkMusic

In certain cultures it's customary to play the bagpipes at a funeral. But only if you've been invited, it turns out.
#InternationalBagpipeDay

Happy #internationalbagpipeday everyone!

At their most powerful, bagpipes can sound like a wounded animal. That's not a bad thing. It's what gives them power, even & maybe especially on plaintive melodies like "Amazing Grace".

#InternationalBagpipeDay
https://youtu.be/PGm0H68olao

For International Bagpipe Day in International Women's Week I bring you an English woman, Kathryn Tickell, playing Northumbrian pipes, and a Belgian woman, Marieke Van Ransbeeck, playing musette de cour aka baroque musette, with Andy May also playing Northumbrian pipes (he makes them too).

Tune - Kadril Van Aalst - composed by Marieke Van Ransbeeck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uf0oN_lc3g

#FolkMusic #InternationalBagpipeDay #bagpipes #MusetteDeCour #BaroqueMusette #NorthumbrianSmallpipes #NorthumbrianPipes #music