Hungarian Bagpipes - Magyar Duda

Voilà, my new set of Hungarian pipes, made by master Juraj Dufek from Bojnice, Slovakia.

The duda is a variety of the double-bore bagpipes found from the Tatra mountains down to Slavonia. It's speciality is the so called "flea hole": When opened, the played note sounds one semitone higher, thus making it possible to play a nearly complete chromatic octave range scale. The second bore of the chanter plays only the tonic and the domninant.

The chanter of my instrument is made after an instrument preserved in a museum, thus it has a more narrow bore (6 mm) than most modern Hungarian bagpipes. The tonality is A.

The first song to be heard is a Hungarian classic, "Aki dudás akar lenni":

Aki dudás akar lenni
Pokolra kell annak menni:
Ott vannak a férges kutyák
abból lesznek a jó dudák!

He who wants to become a bagpiper
Must go to hell for that:
That's where the lousy dogs are
Out of which come the good bagpipes!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• bagpipes
• dudelsack
• duda
• hungary
• hungarian
• magyar
• ungarn
• ungarisch
• vereno
• dufek

[ScotlandForever0]

Gle Mhath!!!!

This is beautiful, thank you for all of these wonderful videos!

I have a question though, i already play the Great Highland Bagpipes and i was wondering how long it took you to learn the Duda, and how hard it is to learn?

[vereno1986]

Tapadh leat!

I didn't find the duda hard to learn, you just have to get used to using your little finger separately from the others! The closed fingering is IMO even more comfortable to play than half closed or open fingering.

[smedaas]

Do you play fully or half closed? Sorry, but I can't tell from the video

[vereno1986]

Fully closed - as with all single beating bagpipes from Central Europe.

[popcornmuse1]

Das Dudda, habe ich wiederverkauft ( wegen geschlossene Fingergriff ! ).

Wie kommt es denn, dass Sie ebenso gut die Französishe Sprache sprechen ? .

Merci encore pour cette vidéo, et que pense Mozart de la Dudda ?

A + Claude.

[vereno1986]

Ma mère est professeur pour la langue francaise, est je passe mes vacances à St. Rémy de Provence;-)

Mozart? J'ai déjà joué la "Marriage des paysans" de son père Leopold, ou se trouvent la cornemuse, la vielle ainsi que le cymbal. Il existe aussi une pièce de Wolfgang pour la vielle, un danse allemand (KV 602, Nr. 3).

[tormatah]

Hiába... hihetetlen jó hangszer a duda. Főleg a magyar.

[nyuzoo]

Nagyon jó!

[PapaKumaMusic]

Sounds good!

[oxnard4023]

Szia! Hol lehet ilyen dudát beszerezni és megtanulni rajta játszani? Nagyon szeretnék dudálni :) Köszi

[jpstenino]

wonderful musical video thank you

[TULSABRACADAVER]

Love this horns ;) jejee ... and that sound... like a flaute... nice!

Best regrds from Mexico City...

Bianca

[JocoWolfHUN]

No comment!

Avagy magyarosan "Nem találok szavakat" :)

Ami jó!, az jó!!

[Surokh]

@cody1800212 Thats a fucking goat not a demon. :P

[AmyRoseHot]

@AmyRoseHot Lemme guess: Hungaria. (I call it that just to avoid confusion with "hungry".)

[AmyRoseHot]

Where can I buy a duda?

[LGivenUpP93]

Great!

An interesting bagpipe sound.