Re: OTbagpipes (wasRe: Musical languistics - Mass Reply)

yscreus il Michael Poxon:

> Then there's the Northumbrian smallpipes, which
> are quite well known
> now in
> the UK (well, in folk music circles, anyway!).
I've heard of them, but never heard (or seen)
them.

> But for real earpiercingness
> you can't outdo the Breton Biniou Kozh, which
> is so high-pitched it
> even scares the bats away.
Now, _there_'s a wonderful pipe!!

> On this subject, how
> about some notes on musical
> instruments in concultures?
Well, I've gotten the terms for some instrument
parts in Kerno:

corpus l' oatès / corpus le basès are the upper
and lower joints of (modern) clarinets, flutes
and oboes; the barilith is a clarinet barrel; a
bonneth is an ophicleide or bassoon bell;
pavillió is a clarinet or oboe bell; rosteors is
a clarinet or saxophone mouthpiece; ram long and
ram corth are the long and short joints of a
bassoon; culósa is the butt joint of an
ophicleide or bassoon.

Somewheres around I've got a list of instruments,
but I don't know where off hand. Most were fairly
conventional, however.

The chief native instruements are the pipes (both
the great and small: the one being a large double
chantered affair, where each hand plays a
separate chanter, and the other being, largely,
the biniou kozh); the harp ( midsized, double
strung affair); the concertina; and the brass
band (cornets, peckhorns, euphoniums and tubas,
largely). You still find the occasional
ophicleide and serpent supporting the choir in
church. The square piano was long the popular
home keyboard instrument (supplanted in the 20th
century by the upright, though there are still a
lot of them out there).

Padraic.


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