Bagpipe Comix: PIPRZ by Vince Janoski

Get Ready to Hack Your Piping with Dojo University’s Fall Lineup by Vince Janoski

Get ready for your fall bagpipe-gasm. Dojo University, the world’s first online piping school, has announced an autumn “semester” lineup with all drones a-blazin’. The instructor list views like the best of piping summer schools smashed together. And all in the “off-season” from the comfort of your ain hame. The fall and winter months are [...]

Pipehacker Review: A Unan by Vince Janoski

Sometimes all you need is a good bagpipe and a good tune. Breton pipers Xavier Boderiou, Sylvain Hamon, Hervé Le Floc’h, and Alex Meunier realize this as well and have produced an album of bagpipe music that is truly, all about the bagpipes and the tunes. A Unan (translation from the Breton: “Of One”) takes [...]

Bagpiping and the Search for Meaning by Vince Janoski

The poet John Keats once described the ideal state of the psyche as negative capability—the ability “of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” Which brings to mind another quote by Gilbert Chesterton: “If a thing is worth doing it is worth doing badly.” Chesterton was a staunch advocate [...]

Cracking the Millstone II: Long Live Bagpipe Competitions! by Vince Janoski

Go back and read Part I: Bagpipe Competitions are Dead The merry-go-round goes round and round… The sheer monotony of bagpipe competition here in the US can wear you down after a while. As I mentioned in Part I of this piece, Bill Livingstone once likened competition to a “millstone,” and he’s right. Lots of [...]

Bagpipe Comix: PIPRZ by Vince Janoski

Bagpipe Comix: PIPRZ by Vince Janoski

Small Tunes Podcast: “Bung Your Eye!” by Vince Janoski

This happy little jig is often heard as “Lord Dunmore’s Jig” or simply “Lord Dunmore” but is predated by the tune “Bung Your Eye.” A “bung” is typically the hole in the whiskey barrel where the spigot inserts before bottling or dispensing. It could also be the act of inserting the spigot itself, thus the [...]

Small Tunes: Vintage Melodies from the Bagpipe Tradition 006 Bung Your Eye! [ 3:30 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (844)