Collectors - Macedonian bagpipe

This clip is extracted from a popular Australian documentary TV series.

This episode features an Australian collector of bagpipes with an expressed taste for the Macedonian bagpipe and Macedonian music.

Rob Bester and Anne Hildyard are so entranced with Balkan music that they visited the Balkans, and collected the music, instruments, clothing and recipes from this area. When Rob heard the Macedonian bagpipes played, it really struck a chord with him.

A favourite is the biniou, a bagpipe from Brittany, which is an octave higher than Scottish pipes. Rob explains that while bagpipes are shepherds instruments, practised during summers on the high plateaus, the main instrument used for weddings and other celebrations is the zurna, a wooden reed instrument mostly played by professional musicians.

In the Balkans, each village has its own variations of instruments and ways of playing them so that you dont have to go far before things have changed quite a lot. Music is a most important part of Balkan cultural identity. The music you play or listen to says a lot about who you are. A babys development is measured by its ability not to walk or talk but to clap in time to music.

Rob and Annes band Xenos has performed to attentive audiences all over the world, and when they can their children play too.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Macedonian
• bagpipe
• Macedonia
• Australia
• music
• Македонија
• Австралија
• gajda
• гајда
• музика
• muzika
• Македония
• ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ

[europeanstranger]

the guy said this is the kaba Gajda from southern Bulgaria...

[MechkinKamen]

And your point is?

[MAKGIRL333]

Ajde Tatarski hieni!

Patetichni leshinari!

Abe sto imate vie?

Nisto, za zalenje ste!

LONG LIVE MACEDONIA

[aristotelpiperka]

thanks for uploading !

5*

[JANDAR69]

I can not comprehend wich idiots would nor why one would select

dislike ??

what is there to dis like ???

THESE PEOPLE ARE FANTASTIC AND THERE SHOULD & ARE MANY MORE LIKE THEM !!!

FANTASTIC STUFF :)))

[gajda1984]

It is a Kaba Gajda. Kaba Gajda's are similar to the Macedonian one but have a reverse conical bore chanter. Macedonian ones are cylindrical. and the standard buglarian one has a standard conical bore chanter. But it is obvious that the bulgarians did not use the bagpipes until upon their arrival to the balkans from central asia. Thanks to the Macedonians!!

[BoriMoli]

Ha-ha-ha!!!

Macedonianan Invention!!!

[jeffdotturp]

they are a very inspiring family, good fun to play with, and a wealth of tunes , songs and knowledge of dances. great way to bring in the new year.

[tosevska1]

Thank you for this video!

Macedonia is timeless!

[MAKGIRL333]

Yes it is Macedonian Gajda!

LONG LIVE MACEDONIA!!!

[angomako]

Very very well said,Makgirl!

That's exactly how it was,and in the 19 century we suddenly see all these "national awakenings",staged nations baked by the west,little statelets easy to manipulate and fight for the interests of the western countries that helped to create them.

[Wiligot]

Што ти е па на тебе гајле за Македонија,кога си бугарски помак?