german goth question

[Ysobelle at aol.com]

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?
>


All you could possibly want to know about the history of bagpipes in 
Germany:

http://sackpfeifen.virtualave.net/deutschsack/dudel1e.htm

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.