Norden Sackpipa Association of the Americas (NSAA)

[chad_fross]

Who I am: Chad Fross
Where I'm From: Sciota, Il. (USA)
Where I Currently Live: Seoul, South Korea
Primary Instrument: Guitar, Scottish Smallpipes and (working on) Svensk Sackpipa.
Secondary Instrument: Fiddle, Clawhammer Banjo, Mandolin and percussion.
Interests: Woodworking (furniture building and bagpipe making) Woodcarving, multi-cultural traditional music, reed-making and horse training/ riding.
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Chad

[Quimbisero]

There must be an interesting story behind how you ended up in that part of the world!

Eoghan
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Nzambi munzulu Nzambi muntoto.

[JNelson]

My name: Jonathan Nelson
Where I am: Florida, for the 07 summer, Texas, during the school year
My main instrument: Voice
Other instruments I play: Learning the Sackpipa
Other interests: Engineering, Flight, paintball, world travel, listening to music,
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Jonathan Nelson

[Frédéric Vigouroux]

Hi, i'm very please to join you.
i've allready found here more solutions and idea for my bagpipe than i've heard for the last 15 years. I hope you'll understand my french accent.

My name: Frédéric Vigouroux
Where I am for a living: France, indre-et-loire, Tours
Where I am by spirit: Gasconha
My main instrument: Bagpipe of the Landes (boha)
Other instruments I would like to play: Säckpipa, etc.
Other interests: reed making, customizing the boha,
why i came here: i love the swedish traditional music. I've just discovered Olle Gällmo's website and this is a revelation ! Could we have such an ancyclopedy for the boha ! It is so generous to give for free your knowledge. i knew that säckpipas are similar to our boha by the way reeds are made. The way you play graces notes, and halfclosed fingering and a tricks i can't explain. Their history are similar too : the last ancestral boha-player died and the instrument nearly disappeared. Some musicien during the 70's to make knew one and today, we are more than 200 boha's player in France. (We had the chance to find a recording of this musicien in 1994.)
i think we have a lot to share.
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Vigxf

[Hrafnharr]

My Name: Erika Thorsen
Where I am: The Middle of Nowhere, Oregon, USA
My Main Instruments: Bassoon, Great Highland Bagpipe
My Secondary Instruments: Trombone, tin whistle, sopranino/soprano/tenor recorder, various ethnic winds, bamboo flutes I've made, singing, really want to play the sackpipa
Other Interests: Medieval reenactment, Celtic music in general, making instruments, conducting, leatherworking, writing/poetry, ceramics, Celtic art, ancient cultures and languages, the great outdoors, travel, gardening, going to college once I graduate high school.
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Not all who wander are lost...

[Joanne Graves]

My name: Joanne
Where I am: Poulsbo, WA, USA
My main instrument: None
Other instruments I play: None
Other interests:Raising four children, all nordic folk dancers. The youngest wants to play swedish bagpipes, which is why I am here

[KalleAnka]

My name: Karsten (named "Kalle") Schuhmann
Where I am: Near Hamburg (Northern Germany)
My main instrument: German renaissance bagpipes: "Huemmelchen" and "Schäferpfeife"
Other instruments I play: In october '08 I'll get my säckpipa...
Other interests: Forest working, riding

Kalle

[Chrischan]

My name: Christian "Wicki" Radewald
Where I am:Schwerin (Northern Germany)
My main instrument:renaissance bagpipe "Huemmelchen", "Medieval Bagpipe" (sorry..but I don`t know the right word in english), my selve-made säckpipas (one mouthblown in A/E with one drone an one bellow-blown in A/E with three drones...actually it has only one...)
Other instruments I play: Guitar, Hurdy Gurdy (in one week), drums, tin whistle
other interests: I am interesting in the culture of the vikings
why I am here:I am looking for the other säckpipa player in the world who can tell me something more about the constuction and the music

[martin]

My name: Martín Fuchinecco
Where I am: Buenos Aires, Argentina
My main instrument: fiddle (since 2003)
Other instruments I play: guitar, mandolin, kantele (Finland), accordion. Learning: tin whistle, säckpipa
Other interests: SEO (Search engine optimization), SMO (Social Media Optimization), intruments construction
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[peewee]

My name: Pete Coleman
Where I am: Stroud: Gloucestershire UK
My main instrument: English Border Bagpipes in G and Low D
Other instruments I play: Bass; Keyboards, Recorders and säckpipa
Learning: säckpipa
Other interests: Playing and composing as part of group "Metheglin".
French/Euro dance rhythm music. Record producing and engineering.

[bagpiperjohn]

Name: John Nelson
Location: Nashua, New Hampshire, USA (about an hour north of Boston)
Primary Instrument: Scottish Highland Pipes and Small Pipes,
Secondary Instruments: Säckpipa, Scottish Border Pipes
Other interests: Hiking, Backpacking, Skiing, Genealogy
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John Nelson
Concord, New Hampshire
bagpiperjohn@gmail.com

[Gerard Alís]

Name: Gerard Alís Raurich
Location: Mataró (near Barcelona), Catalunya, Spain
Primary Instrument: Catalan Bagpipe
Secondary Instruments: Swedish flutes (like Härjedalspipa, Offerdalspipa, Månmarkapipa), Irish Whistles, flute, Galician Bagpipe, Scottish Bagpipes, traditional percussions, didjeridoo.
Other interests: Draw, paint, sculpture, write, books, martial arts, hicking, cluture, history...

[luso]

Name: Alberto
Location: Aveiro, Portugal
Primary Instrument: Gaita galega
Secondary Instruments: flute, other bagpipes (sackpipa, medieval bagpipes)
Other interests: Painting, design, bagpipe making, .......

[William Reinman]

My name: William
Where I am: Trelleborg, Sweden (almost as far south in Sweden as you can go without breathing bubbles)
My main instrument: Still learning Uilleann pipes. That is where my musical focus is right now.
Other instruments I play: Played all sorts saxes for many years. Hopefully will again, some day.
Other interests: Tai chi, tango (argentinian, not ballroom!), wood/metalwork, juggling all the irons I have in the fire.
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[gasp]

My name Nicolas
Where I am: France
My main instrument: fiddle, cittern, guitars
Other instruments I play: sackpipa ,cornemuse du centre france
Other interests: music specially swedish, instruments making

[DRUMALBAN]

My name: James MacDonald Reid (Seumas mac Dhonnchaidh Ruaidh)
Where I am: Glen Shira, Argyll, Scotland (I also have a flat in central Edinburgh near the National Library).
My main instrument: Old fashioned Highland pipes (old-pitch heirloom made around 1870, whale's tooth and brass mounts), kaba gaida
Other instruments I play: djura gaida, Macedonian, Slovak, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, French and Italian pipes. I learned these from old-timers within their communities during the 1960s. I later studied Ethnomusicology, specialising on the use of bagpipes in European folkdance, at Harvard University, 1980 - 85.
Other interests: Folklore and folkculture. I inherited a wealth of Gaelic lore and customs from my family and teachers. Back in the '60s I set out to learn about other European folklore and culture, especially in the Balkans and Slovakia. I got my Swedish sackpipa about 30 years ago from the late Bob Thomas, who I first met in 1966 and who used to visit me to share our interests. We travelled together in Italy in 1975.
Although I don't have a website, I have a page on Facebook under my full name which has albums with pictures of many of my bagpipes and others.
Publications: "The Medieval Bagpipe" (Booklet for Early Music Company 1985), "The Indigenous Folkdance of Scotland" (Scottish Arts Council 1991), "Pipes and Pastures" (Radio series broadcast in 1997 BBC Radio 2), "Clothing in the 17th Century Western Isles" (Contribution to Anthology on Martin Martin, Glasgow University, 1998), "Dannsa" (Gaelic-medium history of Dance for Highlands and Islands University, 2000), "A History of Dance in Gaelic Scotland" (Published in series in "Highland Dancing" magazine, 2002)

[hwistle]

My name: Manuel Balaguer-Cortes
Where I am: Alyth, Perthshire, Scotland
My main instrument: High and Low Whistles, jew's harp, flute
Other instruments I play: Säckpipa (Leif Eriksson), seljefløyte, spilåpipa, recorder, gaita galega and some instruments I bought and I haven't learned to play yet (including a kohorn, a pig-snout psaltery and a Turkish ney)
Other interests: Beyond playing and listening to traditional music (mainly Scottish, Spanish and Scandinavian) I like reading (specially books on religion, mythology, folklore...), hillwalking and having a pint of real ale from time to time.

I play locally in sessions of Scottish/Irish music style. Not many people playing nordic stuff around here, never mind Swedish bagpipes! If anybody into nordic music lives around here and fancy a little jam, please let me know.
I got a set of Leif Eriksson bagpipes a few years back but I've been playing very seldom, mainly due to ongoing house renovation projects over the years...

All the best,

Manuel

[Heath]

Hi Guys,
My Name: Heath Morton
Location: Tasmania, Australia
Musical instruments I play: None! About twenty years ago I played bass guitar in high school for about six months as it was mandatory to play something. The sackpipa, when I make one, will effectively be my first as I have forgotten everything about music.
Other interests: Widely varied. My interest in the early middle ages (the dark ages were not that dark) and reconstructing things, preferably from archaeological evidence where possible, brought me to bagpipes in general and the sackpipa in particular.
I make the odd woodworking and blacksmithing tools for instance. Did a plough earlier this year and ploughed a field behind some oxen. It worked! Even in my untrained hands.
So I intend to make the earliest, most low technology sackpipa I can, with as few extensions as I can get away with. I perceive a true 'folk' item, such as I can deduce is likely to have been made a long time ago in a villagers spare time, when not mostly occupied scratching a subsistence from the land. Therefore, I plan to use exclusively the tools I have made, and any others I will have to make.
Cheers

[fenevad]

My name: Arle Lommel (fenevad)

Where I am: Bloomington, Indiana

My main instruments: Hungarian bagpipes and hurdy-gurdy

Other instruments I play: Anything I can get my hands on, but primarily winds (blockflutes, reeds like duduk, crumhorn, and shawms)

Other interests: Building musical instruments, folklore (I'm ABD in folklore at Indiana University)

[Nikita Chasovnikov]

My name: Nikita Chasovnikov

Where I am: Kaliningrad, Russia

My main instruments: alto saxophone, tenor saxophone

Other instruments I play: flute, tin & low whistles, recorder, shakuhachi, piano
Other interests: ship and boat building, my jazz band, musical instrument history, building musical instruments

[Michael Blackwell]

My name: Michael Blackwell
Where I am: Santa Fe, New Mexico, usa
My main instrument: wooden flute and button accordions
Other instruments I play: too many
Other interests: piano technology, reading and being afoot

[Jerzy]

My name: Jerzy A. Brzozowski
Where I am: Florianópolis, southern Brazil
My main instrument: tin whistle
Other instruments I play: clarinet, flute, recorders, little bit of guitar, mandolin, and bodhrán.
Other interests: I'm a philosophy professor at the local university. I do research on the philosophy of biology. Besides music, other hobbies are electronics, painting, and playing Magic: the Gathering.

[anima]

My name: Jeffrey Wall
Where I am: Kansas City (right in the middle of the USA)
My main instrument:Uilleann Pipes
Other instruments I play: Gaita Galega
Other interests: I run two bagpipe websites www.uilleannforum.com for the uilleann pipes and www.gaitaforum.com for all kinds of Spanish pipes.

[willarnold]

My name: Will Arnold
Where I am: New Jersey, USA
My main instrument: Flute & Piano
Other instruments I play: tin whistle, recorders, piccolo.
Other interests: My goal is to learn various other whistle/flute instruments from around the world. One that I recently picked up is a bawu (Chinese).

I joined this forum because I'm interested in learning about the harjedalspipa. Can anyone tell me where I can buy one and learn more about them?

[texasbagpiper]

[Corwen]

My name: Corwen

Where I am: In East Dorset, between Cranborne Chase and the New Forest, and sometimes on a narrowboat near Bath.

My main instrument: Tin whistle

Other instruments I play: Welsh bagpipes, hummelchen, other whistles, horns etc, pipe and tabor, bowed lyres especially jouhikko, bit of English style fiddle, percussion, especially riddle drum/bodhran, but also hand drums.

Other interests: Low impact living, trekking, pilgrimage, Druidry.

[Baglady]

My name: Fern Lerwick
Where I am: Minnesota
My main instrument: Great Highland Bagpipes
Other instruments I play: smallpipes, guitar, whistle, concertina, piano accordion, voice, anything I can get my hands on
Other interests:Traditional music and cultures are my avocation
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A bagpipe is only too loud when it's out of tune

[o_gaiteiro_do_chicago]

My name: Theodore Ceplina
Where I am: Chicago, IL
My main instruments: Irish flute/Cajun accordion
Other instruments I play: fiddle, harp, various bagpipes, whistles, nyckelharpa, a large assortment of world flutes
Other interests: Woodworking, cooking, bicycling

[Jim Little]

My name:Jim Little
Where I am:Palo Alto, California
My main instrument: fiddle (Swedish & Norwegian folkdance music)
Other instruments I play:säckpipa, Macedonian and Bulgarian bagpipes, ...
Other interests: Swedish and Norwegian folkdance

[MatthewVanitas]

My name: Matthew
Where I am: Washington DC, USA
My main instrument: Appalachian dulcimer
Other instruments I play: Sackpipa, ukulele, Hayden duet concertina, fretless banjo, pennywhistle, Shape Note singing. I also have a bunch of gear I don't do justice, like an Anglo-Saxon lyre, kora, shakuhachi, Chemnitzer, etc.
Other interests: Motorcycling (have a little Honda CB250 as a city bike), reviewing restaurants, museum-going, going to see punk bands, editing Wikipedia.

I got into sackpipa less out of a specific interest in Scandinavian music (though I do enjoy it) and more because I love the tone of the instrument, its relative uniqueness among bagpipes, and its great chromaticity. I have a Seth Hamon cast-resin E/A set (blue with white swirls), and a Boris Favre D/G bellows-blown set in mesquite. I'm hoping to get a C/F chanter, a set of pipes with several large uilleann-type drones, and maybe a double-chantered sackpipa. At this point, I'm pretty sold on the sackpipa out of all the pipes out there.