Talk:List of nontraditional bagpipe usage

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Bagpipes are insterments. some you blow in others you don't. they are in a lot of america's music today. i think they have a pretty sound.

                                                           A Student from PA

That's incredibly concise and accurate, well done "Student from PA". All I could add is : "Bagpipes are also in a lot of Europe's music today". Haha...

A piper from Scotland

To me this page lacks polish, and my guess is that this originates from the start of the page. I've just gone through and corrected a number of incorrect spellings (including things like "highland" when it should be "Highland") in addition to common incorrect grammar as I've seen/heard before when it comes to pipes, bagpipes, Highland bagpipes, etc. In the experience/opinion of this piper from America (speaking of myself here), most of the public do not know that...

1) Scotland did not invent bagpipes.

2) Bagpipes are not only Scottish.

3) The word "bagpipe" does not specifically mean Highland bagpipes. (Further to this point, saying "bagpipe" is the same as saying "vehicle" ... do you mean a car, snowmobile, blimp, row-boat? When a person says "Highland bagpipe/s", "ulliean pipes", etc etc, they are then being _very_ specific -- but, for common example, when someone says "bagpipes" meaning "Highland bagpipes" they are really saying 'all kinds of bagpipes'.

I'm sure there are plenty of other things the public by & large doesn't know on the general level about pipes on the whole, but I'm going to keep this simple and stop there. My point is this ... there are innumerable lines on this over-all page that read 'so-&-so uses pipes on their recording'; although technically accurate, I think these need to be clarified, with each line cleaned-up to include which kind of pipe the artist included. It also would do far better to read clearly if such-&-such artist's recording used a bagpipe/bagpiper or multiple bagpipes/bagpipers/types of pipes.

Good Luck! ManOnPipes (talk) 19:24, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

I do agree with you, though to be frank so many are utterly obscure and (dare I say it) uninteresting that it would be a heroic job to sort through them, figure out what they all are and cite them all properly. In all honesty, I only ever started this page because there was a huge mass of it on the Bagpipes article and the sheer amount of material was totally innappropriate. Calum (talk) 20:04, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Adding new entries to the list.

What originally brought me to this list was an interest I had taken in bagpipe music after having heard some in the original soundtrack for the Claymore TV Series. However, having looked over the discussion for this list I was wondering if there was a decision in regards to knowing the instrumentalist and the type of bagpipe used, as far as whether it is necesarry, preferred, or just something that was mentioned.

That aside I would like to include the Claymore OST in the list, but I wanted to ask first. Thanks! --Garonyldas (talk) 22:42, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

It would be nice, but I would say as long as you can provide enough information that someone else could track down a reference for the entry, then that would be sufficient. I suppose at some point the article will need to be worked on, but for the moment I think it is still information gathering. Calum (talk) 13:40, 31 December 2007 (UTC)