Vert Kezes (T16, arranged for Hungarian duda)

This is a popular dance tune "Vert Kezes" [kezesh] (translatable to something like Battering Hands) from the CD of Legedi László István "Csobános" [chobanosh] (Track 16). The tune is transcribed and arranged for the Hungarian bagpipes by Anna Nemeth in 2009 January. The tune on the CD is played in D, and Anna transposed it to A. When the tune is played for dancers, it should be played at a faster tempo of 130 - 140. You should practice this tune until you can play safely at 140. On this video I play at around 112.
The tune has four parts, the 2nd and 4th being the same. There are a number of tunes for the dance "Vert Kezes", and all are typical bagpipe tunes. They have no characteristic or comprehensive melody, they are composed of repeating streams of simple fragments played in a very fast virtuoso way. In Hungarian pipering we call this type of music "aprája". The dance "Vert Kezes" is the most complicated and challenging to learn of all the dances of the "csángó" [chaangoo] (Hungarian) people from the Moldva region in Rumania. This dance became a favorite (together with "Gergely" [gergey] dance) for the pros in the "Moldvai" [moldva-ee] dance houses.
There is no living "csángó" piper any more, but the Hungarian piping community tries to keep, revive and extend this fascinating "Hungarian" piping heritage and tradition as much as possible. We are sure that the same or similar tunes are extensively played and danced by Rumanians in Moldva as well. This tune (played by pipers) and dance can be seen and practiced soon in the famous folk music club in Budapest "Ifjú Muzsikás" (aka Csoóri) every Friday night in the Revicky street.

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Education

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• Hungarian
• Bagpipe
• Csoori

[leonbattista83]

wonderful, i'm musican and i would like to mqke a pipe, have you a video were you explain how to do this? plese is important, i' m a student and in this moment i cnnot to buy a tre pipe, you can contact me by mail... or if you know a site were it is explained hot to built it

[nemethmik]

The tune is really wonderful, my playing is far from wonderful; it is intended only for learning the tune. Making a set of Hungarian bagpipes is challenging. Making Scottish Small Pipes is much simpler. If you insist, you should come to Hungary and meet pipe makers face-to-face. The next event is a piping festival on the weekend February 20 - 22 in Mohacs.

[PalinkasBand]

thanx for the tune. we'll learn it ASAP to play together in Csoori klub.