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Why Do People Hate Bagpipes?, my ringing tone..

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Drothgord	Posted: 12-Jul-2007, 11:02 PM
Clan Member Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 71 Joined: 09-Jul-2007 Zodiac: Alder Realm: Kerava, Finland	It is actually very weird that people hate bagpipes in Finland/Northern europe so much. "It's just a horrible high noise with no sense at all"... yeah right. Yesterday when i was on my way home on a train my phone started ringing. And guess what ringing tone i have? Yes, Scotland the brave played with bagpipes! I love the song, but other people on the train obviously didn't. Everyone looked me like "shut that s***t down or you'll die!".. yes i am an evil genious so i decided to let my phone to ring for a little longer just to make people mad. I have loads of friends and our family is quite big and still i know like 2 people who like the sound of a bagpipe. When i get my own bagpipe i think the whole city will run away when i start playing.

Drothgord	Posted: 12-Jul-2007, 11:06 PM
Clan Member Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 71 Joined: 09-Jul-2007 Zodiac: Alder Realm: Kerava, Finland	Oh, sorry about my bad english it's ringtone, not a ringing tone.. heh.

haynes9	Posted: 12-Jul-2007, 11:53 PM
Celtic Guardian Group: Super Moderator Posts: 11,254 Joined: 05-Jun-2005 Zodiac: Elder Realm: Ganado, Navajo Nation, Arizona	Love the pipes! I'm sure it's like any other instrument - when someone is bad, it's really bad! But I love the sound of bagpipes! Celtic music would not be the same without them! -------------------- Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. -- John Quincy Adams Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less - Robert E. Lee For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved - Romans 10:13 (KJV) The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble, and he knoweth them that trust in him - Nahum 1:7 (KJV)

Drothgord	Posted: 13-Jul-2007, 02:35 AM
Clan Member Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 71 Joined: 09-Jul-2007 Zodiac: Alder Realm: Kerava, Finland	Yes i think so too.. it is a really beautiful instrument. But 99% of people in here hates it so hard.. that is what i just can't understand.

Robert Phoenix	Posted: 13-Jul-2007, 02:21 PM
Celtic Guardian Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 2,318 Joined: 19-May-2006 Zodiac: Ivy Realm: Ironwood, MI	Do you have the actual recording of bagpipes or those annoying tinney sounding synthesizer ringtones that try to sound like bagpipes. Now those are annoying no matter what song or instrument it is. -------------------- Unavoidably Detained by the World "Irishness is not primary a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition on being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it."-Conor Cruise O'Brien Pour mouth to mouth

Drothgord	Posted: 13-Jul-2007, 03:08 PM
Clan Member Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 71 Joined: 09-Jul-2007 Zodiac: Alder Realm: Kerava, Finland	Heh, actual recording of course..

dundee	Posted: 13-Jul-2007, 04:25 PM
Celtic Guardian Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 1,176 Joined: 01-Aug-2003 Zodiac: Reed	highland pipes are loud... i have been on stage with them... loud to the point of pain when you are that close. i love the small pipes and northumbrian pipes they are beautiful. the hurdy gurdy also was a hated instrument back in the middle ages... the players didnt know how to keep them tuned and set up and indeed they sound horrid when they arent set up right.... they sound a wee bit like bagpipes... something for the scotsman with asthma .... L me i like the pipes... but not an hour at a time... the pipes are quite finicky to set up and anything out of tune sounds bad...and may i suggest that you start off with a practice chanter and find someone to instruct you they are not easy to play... you dont want to fuel the fire of their hate... they may burn your pipe...chuckle by the way do you know why bagpipers march when they play..... they are trying to get away from the sound... L -------------------- jim www.greyaengus.com "If I say something that can be interpreted in two ways, and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, I meant it the other way." often in error, never in doubt. if guns kill people then my pencil mis-spells words quote: larry the cable guy sometimes what ya think ya want isnt what ya thought ya wanted till ya get what ya thought ya wanted and then what ya had is gone....

Drothgord	Posted: 14-Jul-2007, 01:24 AM
Clan Member Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 71 Joined: 09-Jul-2007 Zodiac: Alder Realm: Kerava, Finland	ah hurdy gurdy is a lovely instrument, if you play it properly. i have heared bagpipes live only few times, and i was not too close so it sounded beautiful. I guess they can be pretty loud if you are too close hehehe, that was a good one, i gotta tell that joke to my friend who is a bagpiper!

Donajhi	Posted: 14-Jul-2007, 11:58 AM
Celtic Guardian Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 1,223 Joined: 06-Jun-2007 Zodiac: Birch Realm: Fae Hillfort	Love bagpipes and so do most people, if they are played right. Of course there is the other side of the coin. Some just do not have good tastes in music.......... -------------------- CHECK MY SITE: BEYOND THE VEIL http://www.gmadventures.com "I DID NOT, IT WAS THE FAIRY FOLK!" Scottish by the grace of God $Fairy Day countdown banner$ DIOGENES HAS PASSED ME THE LANTERN, STILL LOOKING.....

L�adan Siofra	Posted: 14-Jul-2007, 01:59 PM
Clan Member Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 55 Joined: 17-Mar-2007 Zodiac: Hazel Realm: Idaho	I like the bagpipes too, especially when they're paired with drums. I don't know why some people are so set against them- I guess like Donajhi said, they just have bad taste in music! lol

Drothgord	Posted: 14-Jul-2007, 02:20 PM
Clan Member Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 71 Joined: 09-Jul-2007 Zodiac: Alder Realm: Kerava, Finland	Yeah, it's like always, we are right and the others are wrong but that's not true what Donahji said, MOST people don't like bagpipes.. at least in this side of the earth

TandVh	Posted: 14-Jul-2007, 02:35 PM
Celtic Guardian Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 315 Joined: 06-May-2007 Zodiac: Alder Realm: The countryside around Exeter, California	My plate is sooo full right now I don't have time, but, when I retire or maybe after the rest of the kids move away, I do plan to learn to play the pipes. I guess it's in the Hendeson blood- we were pipers in the house of MacDonald during the Glencoe massacre. The Henderson name is associated with pipes through history and I plan to claim my heritage one day. I already play the banjo, guitar, harmonica, drums, and a little mandolin. I do love the sound of pipes and drums- one of my favs is Albannach. -------------------- TandVh

Monarchs Own	Posted: 14-Jul-2007, 02:45 PM
Celtic Guardian Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 798 Joined: 19-Sep-2004 Zodiac: Elder Realm: Phenix City, AL - back in the good ole USA	I love the bagpipes as well and I am orginally from Germany. Even as a young person this was the only music I listened to besides all the Rock and Pop. My husband also wasn't to fond of them until he heard them played in modern music at Walt Disney World by Off Kilter. Since then he got a bit into it. He got himself some songs from me from Gaelic Storm, The Real MacKenzies and some others. I guess he start getting better taste when it comes to music. Just think of it this way The FEW, The PROUD, The BAGPIPE LOVERS --------------------

RebeccaAnn	Posted: 14-Jul-2007, 07:30 PM
Celtic Guardian Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 535 Joined: 17-Mar-2007 Zodiac: Hawthorn Realm: Southren Illinois	I love the pipes and always have. I know many that don't. I've been told they take getting use to because of their other worldly sound. I asked my Gram once about why they sent the pipers out before the soldiers. She told me the song of the pipes was often thought of as the song of the devil or the wailing of the banshees and would put fear into the enemy. She also told me only a true Scotsman could truly love the song of the pipes. RebeccaAnn

Drothgord	Posted: 15-Jul-2007, 06:24 AM
Clan Member Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 71 Joined: 09-Jul-2007 Zodiac: Alder Realm: Kerava, Finland	TandVh, i have the same problem atm.. i don't have time to learn to play pipes :< but i certainly will when i have. But i guess almost everyone on the forum loves pipes.. We are into celtic music and the pipes are really big part of it i think!

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