Three Irish Guys Play Traditional Spanish Bagpipe Tune

[Multipurpose]

This is dedicated to all my Spanish brothers and sisters along the El Camino. I don't have any Spanish blood (mostly Irish) that I am aware of, but I am religious so all people in the world are my brothers and sisters. Musicians: 1 John McSherry, low whistle, uilleann pipes; 2 Donal O'Connor, fiddle; 3 Tony Byrne guitar. Sorry the video quality is not very good. As for me, God willing I will do the El Camino next April. Trying to talk my best hiking buddy here in Northern California to go with me. His mother is Spanish, he grew up in Madrid, and he speaks fluent Spanish.

 

[Pilar]

Smiling and tapping my foot. Thanks!

 

[Pelegrin]

Very good!
Just a point. It is a Galician bagpipe tune. There isn´t any Spanish bagpipe, because in Spain there are more than one type (Galician, Asturian, Charra...).

 

[Neoscan]

It's a tune from Asturias played by 3 great Irish musicians. Interesting to see how certain tunes are sometimes adopted and cross into different cultures. And aired here on a TV show from Scotland!

 

[Conde de Montecristo]

I love Scotish and Spanish bagpipe music and loved this execution but never seen a bagpipe like that. How comes he doesn't have to blow into the bagpipe?

 

[Neoscan]

They're called uilleann pipes and, like some other types, have a small bellows under the right arm used to blow air into the bag.

 

[nellpilgrim]

The name means 'elbow' pipes. I think they sound the sweetest of all bagpipes but I'm irish and my father and uncle in law were uilleann pipers, so I'm a just a little biased

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

Great music, thank you for sharing this.
Wish you well, Peter.

 

[nellpilgrim]

….and now just because, though as traditional pipers my father and Uncle Aiden will be spinning in their respective graves, this has opened up a whole new world of piping and I think it's fab. You can teach old dog's and instruments new tricks!

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=612038038957026

 

[Castilian]

There isn´t any Spanish bagpipe, because in Spain there are more than one type (Galician, Asturian, Charra...).

The Charra isn't a bagpipe but a three hole pipe.