german goth question

[I am a gothic chipmunk]

wow, thanks, I just took a look see at the page.

Corvis corax is a rather kool band too.  They were the first band I heard
out of germany who used the bagpipes.  I had no idea that their use was so
wide spread.

Rick
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Ysobelle at aol.com>
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Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: german goth question


> On 11/30/03 11:03 PM, quoth the effervescent elheme at telerama.com at
> elheme at telerama.com:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I've noticed that a lot of bands such as anzwut etc use what sound like
> >bagpipes in their music.  I didn't think that bagpipe are cultrally used
in
> >germany .. why are they used .. or are they not bagpipes?
> >
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> All you could possibly want to know about the history of bagpipes in
> Germany:
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> http://sackpfeifen.virtualave.net/deutschsack/dudel1e.htm
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> Though the bagpipe most people think of first is the Highland pipe from
> Scotland, or maybe uilleann pipes from Ireland, the bagpipe was a type of
> instrument found all over Europe and even Arabia as far back as the
> ancient Greeks. We may today think of them as Celtic, but that's not
> really how they began.
>
> At any rate, many of the groups who use them today-- I'm partial to
> Corvus Corax, myself-- invoke a sort or medieval/Renaissance flavour, and
> by that time, bagpipe-like-instruments were pretty common all over the
> place.
>
> Almost apropos of this convo, there's a rock group from Australia called
> Brother who use bagpipes and didgeridoo. They're pretty yummy.
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