For non-Americans: this is actually accurate and reflects how Americans understand ourselves and regional identities. These aren’t official labels, but they’re not totally made up either.
Its so fucking accurate. I’m from the Gulf Coast and it’s not the same as the Deep South. It’s nuts.
They’re also meant for hiltops, not small rooms. Cant get the right reverb with all that echo.
they’re also meant to make you fight the english. don’t forget that part.
My fav bagpipe player was a dude who would go out to the middle of a soccer field near my college apartment on Sunday. No one was using the field and he’d just be out there playing his heart out and the sound were just spread out over the plains. I’d be working on art for class so I’d open the window and listen.
I still have fond memories of the day a kid biked up to the edge of the field, ran over to the bagpiper and the music stopped for a moment and as they talked. I couldn’t hear it but I had assumed the worst, that someone had decided to tell him to stop playing. Instead after the pause the musician seemed to nod, readjusted his bagpipes and started belting out the Star Wars theme.
Holyshit that is the most interesting thing I’ve heard in awhile
Holy shit yes
just to add that there are many kinds of bagpipes from England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Spain, and other countries that are specifically made for indoor playing and are soft and melodic, as well as all the outdoor pipes like the Scottish, Spanish, French, and many from the Balkans, Italy, Greece, central and Eastern Europe and so on - tumblr won’t let me post YouTube links here for some reason but search there for smallpipes, parlour pipes, border pipes, uilleann pipes, for some gentle examples - also for the love of the gods check out Cristina Plato, gorgeous and talented Spanish piper
“why are people attracted to vampires theres nothing inherently attractive about them” we all know why people are into vampires its just that none of us wanna be the one to say it
