Swedish bagpipes: Säckpipslåt efter Jont Lars Olsson

Instructional video. How to play "Säckpipslåt efter Jont Lars Olsson" (bagpipe tune after Jont Lars Olsson) on Swedish bagpipes.

This is one of very few 'real' Swedish bagpipe tunes, i.e. tunes with a known connection to a bagpiper in the old tradition. There are only about a dozen of those, and all of them were written down second hand. In other words, they were all played by someone else, on some other instrument, when first written down. Since most other instruments have a greater range and flexibility than bagpipes, many of these tunes had already then, when written down, transformed into something which is no longer playable on pipes. This tune is an exception, possibly because Jont Lars Olsson, after whom this tune was written down, sang (lilted) the tune.

Jont Lars had this tune after the bagpiper Gucku Olof Olsson (b. 1828). Olof often played with his younger brother, Anders, who played the fiddle. Together they were known as "Guckupojkarna" (the Gucku lads).

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Swedish
• bagpipes
• säckpipa
• instructional
• traditional
• folk
• Olle
• Gällmo

[Offtofott]

I like this music. Really nice sound.

[ogallmo]

Thanks! Bad sound and video quality, though. It was shot with a plain pocket camera under bad lighting conditions (obviously).

[Ditch2012]

This is the last thing you hear... before the vikings are upon you.

[maarhoefe]

@ogallmo i know but i felt like making a joke abouth it. iam alot into the history of these 2 instruments and early warfare as well

[viper90988]

@maarhoefe true dat! lol

[ogallmo]

@maarhoefe Not a problem. The GHB didn't exist then.

[maarhoefe]

@viper90988 thats becus the GHB pipe of the scots was so loud the vikings couldnt even hear their own warcry xD

[viper90988]

@Ditch2012 didnt seem to work against the Scots lol

[ogallmo]

@Dagvalda Actually, most evidence of cultural influence between the two point in the other direction. As for bagpipes, there is hardly any relation at all (in either direction). Swedish bagpipes are east-european in their construction.

[Dagvalda]

@Ditch2012 vikings are just trying to be celts... they have done all throughout their history :P

[termometen]

the bagpipe i not origionaly (can't spell, sorry) from Scotland but from the orients. It came to Sweden about the same time it came to Scotland (16th centuary)

[boatpiper]

Brilliant!!!!!!!!