Norden Sackpipa Association of the Americas (NSAA)

[Olle]

This is a place to present ourselves. I suggest that we follow a guideline:

My name:
Where I am:
My main instrument:
Other instruments I play:
Other interests:
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Info on Swedish bagpipes at http://olle.gallmo.se/sackpipa
More about me at http://olle.gallmo.se

[Olle]

My name: Olle Gällmo
Where I am: Uppsala, Sweden (about 1 hour north of Stockholm)
My main instrument: Swedish bagpipes (since 1992)
Other instruments I play: Other bagpipes (Irish, French, Northumbrian, Macedonian), Kontrabasharpa (older form of Nyckelharpa), various traditional fipple flutes and shawms
Other interests: Computer Science (I teach it at Uppsala University) , in particular Artificial Intelligence and computer games.
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Info on Swedish bagpipes at http://olle.gallmo.se/sackpipa
More about me at http://olle.gallmo.se

[nfadmin]

MY PARTICULARS:

Name-Jerry Revelle (Dalarna ancestry)
Location-West Central Wisconsin, USA
Primary instrument-Harmonica
Secondary instrument-Nordic Violin (well, I do slip once in a while to bluegrass, blues, jazz, country...)
Nordic Folkdans--Yes!

[JoshCobb]

My name: Josh Cobb
Where I am: Hopkins, Minnesota (suburb of Minneapolis)
My main instruments: Oud & Moraharpa (pretty old type of nyckelharpa, with modern adjustments)
Other instruments I play: Swedish Säckpipa, Bulgarian Kaba Gaida, Scottish Shuttlepipes, Highland Bagpipes, Ney, Baglama Saz, various flutes
Other interests: Poetry, mythology, language

[WeeNooke]

Name: Tim Anderson
Location: Chicago suburbs
Primary Instrument: Guitar
Secondary Instruments: Bass, Härjedalpipa, mungiga, säckpipa
Other interests: Many, including the Chicago Spelmanslag

[Stuart]

My name: Stuart Tingle
Where I am: Comox, bc, Canada
My main instrument:Great Highland Bagpipe
Other instruments I play:Swedish Sackpipa (badly might I add), Scottish Smallpipe, Duerer pipe (from a 1514AD engraving), Harpa (the Saxon Lyre) Dulcimer, Epinet. Tin whistle.
Other interests:Musical Instrument making, all the above (except the whistle,) keeps me busy) Falconry, Sailing, Medieval Recreation.

[Quimbisero]

My name: Eoghan Ballard
Where I am: (three streets outside of) Philadelphia, PA
My main instrument: Uilleann Pipes
Other instruments I play: Flute, Gaita Galega, NSP, Highland Pipes, Lowland Pipes, Veuze, Biniou Koz, Whistles, Conga, Stock and Horn
Other interests: Angolan music, Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian music, ethnography. My dissertation was on Afro-diasporic religions of Central African origins. Cooking, woodworking, blacksmithing, etc. By the way, my grandmother was from Jinköping.
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Nzambi munzulu Nzambi muntoto.

[Quimbisero]

And I forgot to mention, I have a small collection of African and Caribbean thumb pianos.

Eoghan
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Nzambi munzulu Nzambi muntoto.

[Tex]

Gone

[Jim Dines]

I'm Jim Dines down in Southwest New Mexico. I've played GHB for 10 years, pennywhistle for about 5 and just enjoy bagpipes of all shapes and sizes. I do wood and leather work and have been a member of the Early American Industries Association for about 25 years. Always ready to learn or help if i can.

Thanks,
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J. Dines

[Paul Haynes]

My name: Paul Haynes
Where I am: Kent, United Kingdom - 30miles from London
My main instrument: G & D cornemuses/border pipes & small pipes (mouth blown)
Other instruments I play: Can strum a guitar a little!
Other interests:French bal folk and Breton music and dance, recently getting interested in Macedonian music and dance. Swedish is very new to me also - keen to learn more!

Do the brewing at a local microbrewery (and help with the consumption!). Studying the growing of medicinal herbs (having spent 25 years in IT!).

[Aaron K. Holt]

My name: Aaron K. Holt
My main instrument: Swedish Bagpipe (since June 2006)
Where I am: Harrisburg area, PA
Other instruments I play: guitar, bouzouki, crwth, lyre, hornpipe
Other interests: History, Art, Anthropology, Historical Linguistics, Woodworking, Instrument building, Mythology.

[C V Relyea]

What some call me: Christopher "Uncle Monkey" Relyea
Main Instrument: The Great North American Five String Banjo
Where abouts am I: Madison, Wisconsin, U.S of A
Other Instruments I make noise with: Cittern, Jaw harps (English and Vietnamese), Dojo (half-breed, love child between a Dobro and a Banjo), Chinese Erhu, Bulgarian Kabagaida, Accordion, Cassical guitar and hopefully one day the Sackpipa. Mind you I can't really play any of these toys with anything resembling skill or competency but they are fun to have lounging around the ol' joint.
Other interests: Sculpting, history (cultural, archeological, political, militarial, anthropological, biographical, philosophical, natural and unnatural), swashbuckling, repulsive ancient and medieval medical conditions, napping, pondering lifes inscrutable enigmas and burrito eating.

[flemfam1999]

My name: Randall Fleming
Where I am: Lenoir,NC, USA
My main instrument: Guitar
Other instruments I play: Dulcimer, Cuban Tres, Peruvian Quena, Tin Whistle
Other interests: anything musical. I have a pasion for instruments especially anything unusual. I first heard the swedish sackpipa about two years ago and have been gathering info ever since. I just recently constructed a small lathe and will be starting my own set of pipes soon.

[Liraman]

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: Swedish (Eriksson, Faust) Russian (Stepanov), German (Mossman) Uilleann (Daye). Also hurdy gurdy, flutes, nyckelharpas....I could go on but I'll leave it here.
Other interests: Journalism (a man's gotta do....), web page construction
Main web page: http://www.tongang.se/liraman/index.html

[Idoheby]

My name: Antony aka Idoheby
Where I am: Moscow, Russia
My main instrument: Sackpipa (d chanter, 3 drones, bellow. By A.Faust)
Other instruments I play: Shawm, Jaleika (trad. pipe), Violin, Morse key
Other interests: Autumn

[Nic]

My name: Nicolas Gerardin
Where I am: Québec
My main instrument: French pipes from central France (A/D, G/C, D/G)
Other instruments I play: guitar, 4 string banjo, flutes...
Other interests: Family, outdoors, cooking, etc.

[Mark Walstrom]

My name: Mark Walstrom
Where I am: Kensington, California (SF Bay Area)
My main instrument: Sackpipa
Other instruments: Nyckelharpa, Hardingfele, Fiddle, Harjedalspipa, Uilleann pipes
Interests: Swedish Folk Music, Botany, Northern California Spelmanslag, all bagpipes, learning Swedish, woodworking

[Numerolog]

My name: Petr P. Nikolaev (Numerolog)
Where I am: Russia, Moscow
My main instrument: Gaita Gallega (in C by David Lopez Garcia)
Other instruments I play: whistle's, bladder-pipe, shakuhachi, Nerves of surrounding people
Other interests: Numerology
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www.sackpipa.ru - About the Swedish bagpipes in Russian
www.bagpipers.ru - Bagpipers in Russia and the CIS

[Anders Jackson]

Guess I can't hide any more
My name: Anders Jackson (Family name after the farm Jacks in Lumsheden).
Where I am: Gävle, Sweden (1h north of Uppsala) and Lumsheden, East Dalarna, Sweden (40min west of Gävle)
My main instrument: Svensk säckpipa (showed Olle how to play back in -91 after Jan Winter tought me in first place )
Other instruments I play: Spoons, Guitar (long time ago, wasn't that bad on the guitar, then)
Other interests: Real computers (Unix and real old computers that crush your feet if you drop it. Which is hard when it takes 3-4 people to move one ) and Freshwater aquariums (mostly intrest in plants growing good). Hunt mooses in the fall. Yes, I work as univerity teacher in Computer Science.
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No MSN or ICQ. Only Jabber at <xmpp:anders.jackson@gmail.com>
Änd sorri får maj misspellingz, inglish is nått maj först language.

[Yuri]

My name: Yuri Terenyi
Wher I am:New zealand, unofficially known as Godzone (true)
My main instrument: Weelll, I dunno. I suppose the lute
Other instruments:
Playing; bagpipes made by myself for cromatic , recorder-like fingering, to play medieval music, flue pipes (ditto) double flue pipes(ditto), lute (renaissance, did I mention it already?),
Making:renaissance recorders, medieval bagpipes of all sorts, (that's single reed, double reed, double chanter, single chanter), lutes, whistles, renaissance guitars, hurdy-gurdies, renaissance clavichords, even a harpsichord and a portative organ, not to mention the dulcimers, psalteries, medieval harp, baroque guitar, vihuelas, and some others I've made. Not all of these were an unchallengeble sucsess, but some were.
Other interests: I don't even know where to begin . So I'll mention only the arts in general, make of it what you want. And astronomy. And quantum theory. And Einstein's mistakes. And Schroedinger's cat.
(Just kidding there. No interest whatsoever.)

[michael j king]

My name: Michael J King
Where I am: Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
My main instrument:Lyre, Kantele, Guitar, Great Highland Bagpipe
Other instruments I play:Didgeridu, Stick Dulcimer, Crwth/Fiddle(a little, I am just learning!) bamboo Xaphoon, tin whistle, Hoping to finish making my sackpipa in 2007 that I started in 2001!
Other interests:Nyckelharpa making, early harpsichord
Homepage: http:www.michaeljking.com

[Anders]

My name: Anders Sköld
Where I am: Göteborg, Sweden
My main instrument: Fiddle, säckpipa
Other instruments I play: French bagpipes (bechonnet), wooden flute
Other interests: Acoustics, beer

[pipercozza]

Name- Cory Dale
Location- Brisbane Australia
Main instrument- Highland pipes / Kaba gaida
Other instruments- Djura gaida, Macedonian Gajda, spanish gaita, Breton biniou, bombarde, Kaval, Zurna, and now sackpipa.
Other interests- instrument making, plants, insects.... many more

[frost]

My name: Emma Frost
Where I am: Dalarna, Sweden
My main instrument: Violin since many years, I mostly play folk music.
Other instruments I play: Säckpipa, other things that sounds.
Other interests: A lot. Music, sewing, medieval stuff, fire, fencing...

[frodemo]

My name: Peter Frodemo
Where I am: Uppsala, Sweden
My main instrument: Don't have one. Never could make up my mind, but, ok, let's say säckpipa
Other instruments I play: Hurdy gurdy, nyckelharpa, stråkharpa, flutes, fife and whistles, guitar, bass, percussion, drums and my lovely voice.
Other interests: My family, mechanics (as in inventing smart solutions for the work with the machines in the brewery where I work), instrument building, player pianos, barrel organs, fairground organs, church organs, beer brewing, acting....
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Like I always say: I never repeat myself

[pop]

Larry Jordan
San Antonio, Texas
GHB
Northumbrian Small Pipes, Border Pipes, getting a Sackpipa
Hunting, Flyfishing
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Larry Jordan

[Jonathan]

My name: Jonathan Parker
Where I am: near San Diego, California, USA
My main instrument: Fiddle
Other instruments I play: Sackpipa (since 1986), tinwhistle, flute, mandolin, guitar, etc., etc.
Other interests: Woodworking, instrument making, gardening, walking, and listening to music.

I first heard the sackpipa played at the Rattviksdansen festival in 1984, and talked to the piper I heard at the participant's dinner near the end of the festival. I wish I could remember his name. Does anyone here have a memory that goes back that far?

A couple of years later, while visiting John Erik Eggens in Rattvik, I spoke with Leif Eriksson, and ordered two sets of D/G pipes from him. I still own one set, and a friend here in San Diego has the other one. I'm still using the original reeds (!) after 21 years. I recall that at that time Leif charged US$180 for each set, and told me that he would not accept payment until I had received the instruments and was happy with them. I wired him the money the day the box appeared on my porch.

After this long playing (mostly) in isolation, it's nice to see people interested in this instrument sharing their enthusiasm.

And by the way, the baby tuning my drone for me in the avatar is now 14 years old
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Jonathan

[biniou-kozh]

My name: Dennis
Where I am:Sweden
My main instrument: Soon Bellows blown G-pipe(conical)
Other instruments I play: gaita galega,biniou kozh,flute,highlandpipes(made by P.Henderson 1890)
Other interests:Reed making

[matt shipp]

Greetings Everyone,

My name is Matt Shipp.

I am an American from Wisconsin, but I am currently living in Japan.

My main instrument is guitar.

I also play a variety of ethnic wind instruments including low whistle, Native American flute, shakuhachi and so on. I prefer to play mostly improvisation.

Other interests include sitting outside, drinking coffee and laughing.