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From: bill@persci.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.music.folk
Subject: Re: Replies to Celtic harp question--long
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Date: Fri, 19-Jul-85 11:15:36 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 19 11:15:36 1985
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Thank you, Sue, for your summary! There was a lot of useful information for
me in there!

>Alan Stivell [...]while he played the pied piper with one of those ancient
>reed horns which sound something like a single bagpipe chanter.

I believe that what you saw/heard was a bombarde, a French shawm-like
instrument played (usually) with a petit-biniou (probably the world's
smallest bagpipe, with a sound as irritating as a mosquito's buzz when
played alone).

>Another group you may wish to look into is a Scottish group
>called Ossian (pronounced oh-SHEEN).  

Could somebody straighten me out on the names Ossian (a Scottish group) and
Ossian (an Irish group)? I'm told that one is pronounced oh-SHEEN, and the
other AW-See-in. I had thought that oh-SHEEN was the Irish group, but I
could be wrong. (I've enjoyed concerts by the Scottish Group!)


-- 
Bill Swan 	{ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill
		"Have you hugged your bagpipe today?"