Bagpipe in traditional Greek music

[kabeiros]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8OZdU5WxYY West Macedonia


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLxvbnpdBho East Macedonia


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG0u-DcZmto Thrace


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tljJPXyJyL8 Pontus

[Nehellenia]

It's funny because it's true... i always wondered why the Scots obtained their bagpipe music from and the fustanella looking kilts too.
Are Scots depigmented Greeks? :rolleyes:

[Rudel]

It's funny because it's true... i always wondered why the Scots obtained their bagpipe music from and the fustanella looking kilts too.
Are Scots depigmented Greeks? :rolleyes:

There are roughly two types of bagpipes in Scotland, two in Ireland and one in England. That's less than in Greece, Spain, Italy or the Balkans in general. France has around twenty types, more or less.
There are bagpipes from Ireland to Pakistan.

I'm a Theologos Grillis fan.


http://youtu.be/llWjQ3Qe-is

[CordedWhelp]

Scythian thing probably originally.

[lianohortaroudia]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZhMsgSLEYg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aiSfNODkaM
folk song from thraki, and my username, lianoxortaroudiaaaaaaaaaaa ax <3

more traditional music from thraki featuring bag pipes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KVzRKAWlUM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmCMBFgyo2o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb-MxIfOfkg


bag pipes also feature in some persian music interestingly enough

[Rudel]

Scythian thing probably originally.
Double reed instruments have been here since Antiquity.
And names like Gaita/Gaida and Tsampouna/Tsabouna/Zampogna/Samponha are used all around the Mediterranean for various types of bagpipes, probably reminiscent of Roman or Post-Roman times.

[kabeiros]

Double reed instruments have been here since Antiquity.
And names like Gaita/Gaida and Tsampouna/Tsabouna/Zampogna/Samponha are used all around the Mediterranean for various types of bagpipes, probably reminiscent of Roman or Post-Roman times. Of course, Pan invented the bagpipe in Greek mythology, I'm sure it is one of the most ancient instruments

[Valerius]

Just listen to the music...
No one can understand the historical origin on the bagpipes anyway.

[Baldur]

Sweden has it's own bagpipe as well. It's a nice instrument.

[Archduke]

Its not a coincidence that there are bagpipes in the regions of Greece which were formerly Bulgarian.