Croatian Bagpipe from the Drava River Region in A

This is a Croatian Bagpipe from the Drava River Region. It is made and played here by Andor Vegh, who makes the best looking and sounding Croatian bagpipes. This video was shot in the kitchen door of Andor's residence during the Bagpipe Summer School in Szenna 2007.
The twobored bagpipe system is used by all nations within the Carpathians including Slovakians, Hungarians, Rumanians, Serbians and Croatians. This bagpipe system was used in the Northern part of Croatia because the major portion Croatia and Hungary were part of the same kingdom for about 800 years until 1918. The Drava river is today the border river between Hungary and Croatia. The Hungarian side of the river is (was) partly (mostly) populated by Croatian speaking people.
The four-reed chanter, you can see and hear here, is used by Croatian speaking people only. The four bores of this type of "Podravine" bagpipe are closed on the bottom. That is, when all the holes are coverd, no sound is coming out from the chanter. This makes possible staccato playing. The colsed bottom bores gives a special tone characteristic to the chanter, too. The bagpipes used by Hungarians have two bores, in some regions three, but never four. Plus, the bores are never closed at the end. Since this particular Drava-River Bagpipe set is in the key of A and most Hungarian sets of bagpipes are in A, they sound a bit similar. But, for a piper's trained ears they sound significantly/completely different. Also, the music played on these two types of bagpipes are really and totally different.

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• Croatian
• Bagpipe
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• Drava

[ceteracorsa]

Congratulations for your music and your instruments!

I have the feeling that croatian pipe music is the most "occidental" music from the balkans. It reminds me italian zampogna music a little bit. Am i right? :-)

[nemethmik]

IMHO, you are right. Keep in mind though that this instrument is not from the Mediterranian region of Croatia. Instead, it's from the Northern (Drava) region, the area partly belonging to Hungary. The instrument belongs to the family of Carpathian Area Bagpipes, but the music is more Mediterranian than Carpathian. IMHO, Croatian bagpipe music, in general, is (completely) different from the typical Balkan sound, to my ears.

[l23722]

Wow. What a clever bagpipe...hahaha

[archyJ03]

@mikharm how to contact him ?

[archyJ03]

@mikharm how to contact this man ?

[mikharm]

@archyJ03 The set was made by Andor Vegh. You should contact him if want to place an order.

[archyJ03]

Wut if one wants to buy this ....can u provide it ?

[gloripine]

awesome bag ,,front half of small goat/????

[00MSG]

@ceteracorsa

Watch this, this are the dalmatian,hercegovinian bagpipes where i come from

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[avnumber01]

Pre pre pre

[Ipiper2]

Very good.

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