Anyone ever wondered what the hell the guy was trying to invent when he came up with that configuration for an instrument?
2006-09-11 02:15:48 · 14 answers · asked by ed 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Not criticizing it's importance in music.
It had to be accidental.
What was he trying to do?
2006-09-11 02:23:27 · update #1
The earliest recorded bagpipe type instrument was when a animal's bladder was attached to a reed instrument like a recorder..probably in Mesopotamia. The bladder acted as a reservoir so continual sound would come out. Then other pipes were added to the bladder to make a continual tone. The Egyptians added to this by lying the pipes on the ground and powering a leather bladder with a water wheel. A combination 'bagpipe' and 'pipe organ', if you will. Throughout the middle east, Italy, and Greece there were bagpipe type instruments consisting of a bag and chanter...some with a drone and others without. The Celts took it with them through Brittany and then to Ireland and eventually Scotland. The bagpipe was a popular instrument throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. It existed in just about all cultures and countries in some sort. Eventually the popularity died out in favor or the more common instruments as we know them today. The pipes retained their popularity in Ireland and primarily Scotland where an extra tenor drone was added to form the Great Highland Bagpipe as commonly seen today.
2006-09-11 06:34:56 · answer #1 · answered by ironbrew 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The crazed scot who said that the bagpipes scared the English forgets who rules the country.
2006-09-11 02:50:45 · answer #2 · answered by Raymo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"this is an prolonged thank you to the actual (in case you decide directly to rock and roll)" with the help of utilising AC/DC has a bagpipe solo. you may additionally be listening to some thing from the 'eighty's Scottish band great u . s .--probable "In a great u . s ." or "Fields of fire". They used a bagpipe result on their guitars.
2016-11-07 02:26:52 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As much as us Scot-Irish love to believe that the pipes came from us, that is not true. We got it from the Romans who got it from the Turks. I heard that on the history channel I believe. anyway, it is used to scare the enemy during battle as well as for entertaining and dance music. I do not know the history of how they were invented.
2006-09-11 04:43:48 · answer #4 · answered by Barefoot Chick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alarm warning bagpipes sound travels father than most other instruments.
2006-09-11 02:26:09 · answer #5 · answered by Crazy Diamond 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love bagpipes. I think the guy who invented it was trying to make.... a bagpipe!!! lol
2006-09-11 02:21:55 · answer #6 · answered by ms pokeylope 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
He must have squeezed a sheep, but whatever it was it certainly beats the guy who invented the long horn accidentally, while trying to blow his own trumpet.
2006-09-11 02:27:17 · answer #7 · answered by McAtterie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yea but they used to scare the shite out of the English when they heard the Scots marching into battle.
2006-09-11 02:26:25 · answer #8 · answered by Rizzo 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sounds like someone trying to skin a cat!
2006-09-11 02:20:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
He thought it sounded like the mother-in-law a bag of wind
2006-09-11 02:21:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋