Norden Sackpipa Association of the Americas (NSAA)

This is an area where Olle might be able to help. Aaron was recently able to purchase a copy. Remember, it is written only in the Swedish language, but the photos are worth a thousand words.

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Thank you "The Liraman", I enjoyed listening to that very much!

Thanks Tex. And just an hour ago Olle was named "Riksspelman" by the Zorn jury in Delsbo!

As my pilot podcast Nordic drones met with some enthusiasm on this forum I decided to do another one. And what could be a better subject that the Moderator's new CD: Olle Gällmo, med pipan i säcken.
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I'll be glad to help. I'm planning on doing some recording towards the end of next month. If you want, I can send you a tune or two and answer a few questions.

I look forward to that, Aaron, thank ...

Jan,
That was great! It's not everyday that something like that comes along.
That was a nice way to end a Monday! I think you'll be able to reach a lot of people this way. How often are you planin ...

As my pilot podcast Nordic drones now has met with the benign approval of the iTunes censorship board (!) I now proudly present it's introduction in the wider realms of the NSAA.
The first pilot is ...

Don't know who the piper is, though. The tune is a slängpolska from Skåne, I believe.

From Garizims web site:
Magnus Smedman who started to play the violin at the age of eleven when he meet the sw ...

That's a sobering notion that perhaps medieval painters felt free to paint any old thing on church walls

In fact it was mostly the opposite. They followed rules and above all followed, i e copied, ...

Just to add to Olle's comment:
A court record from 1618 about a drinking house brawl in Stockholm is in my view the first known record containing a reference to a real person playing the instrument. ...

Jan Winter would get you more information

Right. Many bagpipe tunes survived as fiddle tunes, in fact there is not one single tune out of the 26 or so regarded as bagpipe tunes that were document ...

And that Gudmunds Nils was a large man, with large hands Wink

I'm not too sure about that (Nils being a large man). What struck me most after seing this photo for the first time was, besides the ...

Ok thank's ! So you were the «vielle-à-roue» player on this album, it is true that it's a great great recording and that I haven't hear an «as good» sackpipa album than this one. Can you tell me wha ...

Hi,

I wonder if the vinyl album from Per Gudmunson «Säckpipa» was on CD ? In fact, the first other pipes than GHB I heard was the säckpipas on this wonderful album in 1995.

Yes, it's still is ...

What type of case humidifier do you use Liraman?
The one I keep in my bagpipe case is just a container with a block of hard clay that you add water to. Maybe I should keep my reeds in the same ca ...

Well, Icelanders sing and dance, i e they sing their dances, for hours....and the dances are many many hundred years of age.
I've seen a youth marimba orchestra in the middle of Icelandic nowhere and ...

I'm an ABC addict myself.
I'm not, but I appreciate the simplicity of it and some knowledge of abc notation is a must if your in to folk music on the net.

Just to add to Olle's post, if you're o ...

I don't think Alban makes them differently.

Well, he says he makes them differently, "thinner" I think he said once. But in principle I agree with you.

But the climate in Russia and in Sweden is very different.

I don't agree. There's always problems with reeds (double and single) wintertime if you live in super dry apartments as in northern Eu ...

p.p.s. Liraman, Pavel Stepanov says hallo to you. Do you remember him? I saw his pipes on your site...

Antonyj!
Koniesjna, ne zabyl!, of course I remember him! I have bought two bagpipes, two ...

The instrument you show is from Mockfjärd, and I believe this very instrument was Leif Eriksson's main source of inspiration.

Actually he used three bagpipes for his model, the Mockfjärd one o ...

Sounds great Aaron!

Before we get too technical: Someone earlier in this thread was asking for Norwegian tunes. Here's one i learned som 40 years ago - long before I started with bagpipes - from S ...

Ok, here is a first test.

You can have a look at http://www.jxn.se/Noter/ to see if you can use it.

It's my home computer, so be nice with it. Wink

Great work Jaxon, Great to see tha a gee ...

Certainly ambitious though.

Indeed, and even more as the site now sports it's own forum and guestbook. My Russian is a little rusty, but as Olle writes, Pjotr states the origin of his translatio ...

So, are there any pictures on the web of any of the preserved older sackpipa?

Eoghan

Here's one (from Leif Eriksson's web page):
http://www.tongang.se/leif/0A443E2A-CE75-433F-BE05-96C8C98D9ED9. ...

Another way to confirm leaks is rather ingenious,

Hmm, ingenious yes, but no, not for me, kind of gives passive smoking a new meaning...
I'd like to present still another technique, revealed to m ...

My name: The Liraman (Jan Winter)
Where I am: Uppsala, Sweden
My main instrument: I wish...haven't got one, se below
Other instruments I play on a regular basis: Bagpipes of different origins: Swed ...