Bet me the next thing those fools did was turn off the camera and beat the dog for pissing on the carpet.
Are these the same thing annoying baseball fans have been using for decades? If so, why the sudden outrage?
Bagpipes sound quite good when played well. They're just rarely played well. However, I can't figure out any situation that a vuvuzela sounds good.
Wouldn't know from looking it up, but since you seem to think they are, Skin votes no, they're probably not.
True, but consider this: where can you go to practice? It's not like an electric guitar where you can put headphones into your amp so only you can hear it. To play the pipes, you have to move some serious air - so there are only two volumes - zero + eleven! But for you folks who have never heard them live - you don't know the feeling - they are great! Accordions? I like them in Klezmer (with violin, clarinet, etc) but that's about it.
Problem to is people use certain type of bagpipes more for battle music in a war and then their are the more marching type of bagpipes.
I actually can. See the Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Vuvuzela spoof on YouTube to get an idea. That said, a film score be about the only instance I'd consider scoring a part for a vuvuzela (choir[!]) in a composition. Accordion Kid disagrees! [yt=Vivaldi - Four Seasons - Summer]Y_QYIuQBhZU[/yt] [yt=Bach - BWV 582a Passacaglia in C Minor (Fugue not played)]r8-RkPNUSVY[/yt]
ROCKING THAT ACCORDION.....and yes, the clarinet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWiNiLE_ck8&feature=related
Not true. Pipers can practice with a small flute-like instrument that doesn't have nearly the volume. (It doesn't have the bag part, so the only air involved is what you blow through it.) I had a student once who was a piper, and I learned a lot from him about bagpipes, especially since I heard him practicing a lot more than I heard him doing performances. Sometimes he practiced with the bagpipes themselves, but more often with the little flute.
This thread title is misleading. It implies there can be a Vuvuzela win. There is no such thing as Vuvuzela wins. All Vuvuzelas are fails.
The canter pipe plays the melody - the other pipes play the drones (the constant, unchanging tone). Listen to any bagpipe song and you'll notice that one constant tone the melody notes are bounced against. However, early bagpipes had one canter and one drone. Modern bagpipes have more drone pipes. I love acoustic wind + reed instruments. Sony Rollins, Louis Armstrong + Miles Davis are the ultimate masters IMO. Having said that, enjoy the comedy bagpipe stylings of: 2:00 or so is the best part http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAztA-Iqb4g&feature=related
That AC/CD video was great! I love pre-MTV vids (short films actually) that really capture a band just being a band!
