October 18, 2004

Moldie-Oldie Monkey Monday Music Mania An (almost) hundred-year-old recording of one of the legends of piping: PM Willie Ross. Isn't it freaky that you can hear the living hands of someone who's been dead and gone for so long? And what hands they were...

For more early piping recordings, head here.

posted by Torluath 20 years ago
  • Nice pipes. You can tell how old this is, there's a horrible droning in the background:-) This Ross Anderson dude is seriously geek too! Thanks Torluath, now I know a bit more about piping than I really need.
  • Thanks, Torluath. And since my new computer has a cd r/w, now all my friends (ok, both of them) can hear the sound of the past too. Excellent link.
  • En-chanter-ing links, Torluath, thanks.
  • made me want to dust off my chanter and play but the other monkey in the house has hidden it :(
  • Aye, they do this on ye, the unappreciative fools!
  • Lived next door to a piper who considered it his duty to inundate the square kilometre surrounding him with Scottish pride every Sunday afternoon. Mark me off as an unappreciative fool.
  • I think I've told this story before, but our best man is in a pipe band and used to bring out the bagpipes at parties. It was always entertaining to rock out to the bagpipe version of "Bohemian Rhapsody".
  • It doesn't have anything to do with bagpipes, but by accident a couple of weeks ago I found this Edison cylinder recording from 1901.
  • This is really cool. I'll be passing it on to some family friends who play the pipes.
  • It was always entertaining to rock out to the bagpipe version of "Bohemian Rhapsody". *head explodes*
  • very nice I love the sound of pipes. The best is when their live. Wolof, I envy you.
  • And here's veteran BBC Radio 4 newsreader, the lovely lovely Charlotte Green having a fit of the giggles as a result of hearing it. Bless.
  • I liked the "bee in a bottle" giggle fit story.
  • Ack!