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Uploaded by on Jan 7, 2007

An amazing performance by Gold Medal/World Champion level piper Jack Lee at the Red River Workshop in Shreveport, LA, 2006
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For more on Jack Lee, check:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Lee_(bagpiper)

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  • Okay, I've got a question for all bagpipers. When you do a birl (on low A) you slide your thumb over the low G hole, then back up again, but is it completely necessary to afterward pull your pinky right off the chanter, or can you just let it sit on the chanter below your ring finger until needed again?

  • Birls are done with the little finger on the lower hand, not the thumb. There are different ways of doing it, most people slide down over the hole, then quickly pull the little finger back (a '7' style).. Some people just tap twice.. Some people tap then drag.. Some people slide down then up, some people slide up then down.. As long as you hear a leading A and then two clean Gs, it's a birl no matter how you do it..

  • OK pipers, what is the embellishment he does on the high A at 1:19-1:20?

  • Looks like some quick high-A doublings to me as he plays "Fiddler's Rally".. If you have two or three right after each other, you can flick your thumb up and down to get them all in..

  • does anyone know were i can get the music for the second tune he plays

  • The second tune is called "The Fiddlers Rally"

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  • THIS IS,... SO F***ING GOOD.

    If you come come over to holland, I pay you a beer!

  • FUCK YEA!Now thats a good bag piper!

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  • @N9686W tripple back thumb

  • Curious thing about that Union flag is that it's the First Union Flag from 1606.

    The Second Union Flag is the more common one with the red X of the Irish St Patricks Cross which dates from 1801.

  • @N9686W

    It is usually referred to as a birl, but on high a. Its the same as a normal birl, but an octave higher. It has two g's in it separated by high a's

  • Who ever said the bagpipes were dead?! Haha.

  • @carteru93 I actually do what's called a "Tap Drag" style. It's where you just simply tap your finger on the "low G" hole, bring it under the hole, and slide it back up. but to answer your question, I don't see a problem with it, as long as you can make the same low G noise as you would be able to without.

  • @BHoenders if hes in holland he can come to Belgium, we got way better beer :D

  • @00MORDRED

    lol

  • @00MORDRED

    I am using an iPod touch to comment so sometimes when I spell something wrong it automatically changes to what it thinks I meant instead of what I actually mean

    But seriously, anyone know what maker's shop those pipes came out of?

    Jack

  • @redbike2008 birl is a small town in ireland where

    women dress like boys...

    they aren't girls...but birls.

  • @jackhawkpiper97

    those are your pipes??

    j/k mate

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