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The Scottish Great Highland bagpipes are the best known in the Anglophone world; however, bagpipes have been played for a millennium or more throughout large parts of Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia, including Turkey, the Caucasus, and around the Persian Gulf
On a blustery summer afternoon, 33111, one of 8 preserved class 33/1 locomotives climbs away from Corfe Castle towards Harmans Cross while working the 1720 Norden to Swanage service.
The locomotive is in rather better external condition than when I captured it nearly 30 years earlier at Yeovil Junction (flic.kr/p/RPwX45).
With class 33/1s operating Weymouth to Bournemouth trains from 1967, 33111 almost certainly visited the Wareham to Swanage line in British Rail days prior to closure in 1972.
Note also the correct use of headcode '98': the Southern Region headcode that was used to denote Wareham to Swanage trains.
We were at the lock in Phoenixville PA and as we were walking back from the dam we heard music. This woman was playing her bagpipes and it was awesome!
Piper playing before wedding ceremony that took place later on this shore. No, this is not Scotland.
When I stumbled on this scene I had neither time to change lens nor space to move farther back for wider view.
On the 28th August 1991 Class 33/1 no. 33101 1nd 33106 arrive at Exeter Central with the 1V09 0915 Waterloo to Exeter St.David's.
Bagpipe,33113 pulls away from the Basingstoke stop on 08/March/1986 with the 12.10 Waterloo to Salisbury service.
Miles from home; a proud Scotsman plays a tune to earn a few pennies from the passers by on Westminster Bridge.
In my head, I just hear Jim Morrison and "Backdoor Man!" :)
I will always be in love with the pipes!!
Mini bagpipe was brought to me from Scotland by DDSalica :3 So thankful as I love bagpipes!!!
However this is only for show, as Coltrane has no musical ear at all.
Zotte Zaterdag is a festival in Gouda around Erasmus' "The Praise of Folly" essay. Lof der Zotheid in Dutch.
The Scottish smallpipe, in its modern form, is a bellows-blown bagpipe re-developed by Colin Ross and many others. There are many surviving bellows-blown examples of similar historical instruments as well as the mouth-blown Montgomery smallpipes in E, dated 1757, which are now in the National Museum of Scotland. There is some discussion of the historical Scottish smallpipes in Collinson's history of the bagpipes. But more reliable research and information can be obtained in Hugh Cheape's "Bagpipes: A National Collection." Some instruments are being built as direct copies of historical examples, but few modern instruments are directly modelled from older examples; the modern instrument is typically larger and lower-pitched. The innovations leading to the modern instrument, in particular the design of the reeds, were largely taken from the Northumbrian smallpipes.
Although there is evidence of small pipes dating back to 15th century, in its current form it is perhaps the youngest bagpipe with any popularity, having only existed in this form since the early 1980s. [Wikipedia]