Chris Ormston, Quebec 1994 chrisormston.com

[Springer177]

Mind boggling. Didn't watch - just closed eyes and listened. This is the finest piece of NSP playing I've ever heard.

[Johndunbar116]

Wonderful video!!

I'm a bit confused though, I noticed he wasn't blowing in the bagpipes, is there another source of air? Or am I just confused about the anatomy of the bagpipe?

Thanks for posting!

[casperpiper]

Take note of the bellows under his right arm. It is pumping air into the bag. This is different than the highland bagpipe which is mouth blown.

[RonnieRodentMusic]

@Johndunbar116 There's a bellows under his other arm, which he pumps in a similar way to the main bag, but he pumps the bellows in and out.

[wLightThisCityw]

It's Miracle! I Feel So Much Power in this music... but i'm from Russia)))

[FORKSCAR]

Chris, thank you very much!

Hallo from Moscow, Russia! :o)

[chrisormston]

They're tuned AEA here, but G drones (without the D 5th) work too. The tune actually alternates between modes, with the 1st, 3rd, 5th parts in modal A and the 2nd, 4th etc in C major!

[Conanmcd]

That's gorgeous Chris. Sounds great unaccompanied for a change.

[chrisormston]

Thanks!! That's what drones are for!!! :-)

[lostsoul6909]

very awesome man

[lostsoul6909]

awesome man where can i get your cd from?

[chrisormston]

In the USA it's stocked by bagpipediscsdotcom

[lostsoul6909]

awesome man great mucis keep posting it

[casperpiper]

That is absolutely amazing. I loved it. I don't suppose that tune (Cuckold Come Out of the Amrey) can be played on the highland pipes. I tried to find sheet music for the tune but nothing I found seemed to match what I was hearing and the two I found were only 2 or 3 lines long which can't be right. Any ideas how I can find the sheet music?

[chrisormston]

Cuckold can be played on the highland pipes, but you'd need to start on a B rather than A as played here. The sheet music is in Peacock's collection, available via the Northumbrian Pipers' Society website, but you'd need to transpose it up one tone. Hope this helps

[casperpiper]

Chris, the sample page of Peacock's collection shows a couple of tunes that are only a few lines long. How long is "Cuckold Come out the Amrey?" Are you playing other tunes in your video to fill the 4:37 or are you repeating (which I cannot detect)?

[chrisormston]

Cuckold is a variation set played twice through here. The full setting is in Peacock's collection. Most of the tunes in there are variation sets, so the sample page you saw isn't very representative of the content!!

[casperpiper]

Now that is exciting stuff. Thank you Chris.

[casperpiper]

I finally have Peacock's Collection and I found the tune in there. I can follow the first five measures and then I get lost. I can't reconcile what you are playing with the music. Can you help clarify this for me?

Is this tune available on your CDs? Perhaps if I was able to slow it down I could figure it out. Thnkas for any help you can give.

[ephetra]

Sound - Beautiful

[bvandergucht]

Very cool playing. Quite simply put, I'll be lucky if my playing on the Lowland pipes ever reaches that level.

[kathryntickell]

Hey Chris, fab playing, and your pipes are sounding great.

[NorthumbrianJim]

What key are you pipes in? The usual F-and-a-bit?

[chrisormston]

They're a concert G set made by Dave Shaw

[pipesergeant]

My god, that was amazing! I've never heard NSP like that before....amazing acoustics wherever he's playing....wow!

[UilleannPipesMaddes]

Absolutely great.. never seen such good smallpipe playing before.. makes me wanna have a NSP too ;)