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Olle Site Admin
Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 435 Location: Uppsala, Sweden
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Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:58 pm Post subject: Automatic(!) bagpipe from 17th century |
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Someone want to try this?
I stumbled across this automatic bagpipe player on the German bagpiping forum. The design is by Robert Fludd (1574–1637).
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JoshCobb
Joined: 25 Oct 2006 Posts: 54 Location: Hopkins, Minnesota
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Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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UAAAH...That is one of the most beautifully bizarre things I've ever beheld. Did Mr. Fludd wake up in the middle of the night in a sweat after dreaming about this? Is the cow making steam??? Thank you, Olle! |
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noordung
Joined: 02 Aug 2011 Posts: 15 Location: Slovenia
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 10:53 am Post subject: |
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Interesting device, though it doesn't surprise me that it hasn't replaced the ordinary pipes in all that centuries... But why the bag? Doesn't that drum-like thing obviously already act as an air reservoaire? |
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Yuri Senior User
Joined: 16 Dec 2006 Posts: 149 Location: New Zealand
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Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 7:40 am Post subject: |
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To me it looks like a simple barrel organ with a great saving in extra pipes... |
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Aaron K. Holt Senior User
Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 291 Location: Pennsylvania
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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HA! I'll have to remember this one.
I wonder if the theory was ever put to practice, and what could it have sounded like? _________________ Aaron |
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Yuri Senior User
Joined: 16 Dec 2006 Posts: 149 Location: New Zealand
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 3:51 am Post subject: |
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Like a bagpipe with only four notes available... |
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Olle Site Admin
Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 435 Location: Uppsala, Sweden
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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Still, that's four times more than the number of available notes on a Sruti Upanga, or any other of the ancient chanter-less bagpipes. _________________ Info on Swedish bagpipes at http://olle.gallmo.se/sackpipa
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