Can G-Fiss be played with a bagpipe? 

oh yeah audiogalaxy! it might have been there, I dunno I thought napster was kind of like stepping out into a brave new musical world thingumy!

Excellent question. I know nothing about bagpipes, except that they're really Irish, and a couple of jokes I learned in Ireland (sitting in a pub, obviously, listening to the live music - bagpipes). Since I love to contribute, I'm going to throw in those and hope they'll help solve the question.

Q. What's the definition of a gentleman?
A. Someone who knows how to play the bagpipe and doesn't.


Donald MacDonald from the Isle of Skye went to study at an English university and was living in the residence hall. After he had been there a semester, his mother came to visit.
"And how do you find the English students, Donald?" she asked.
"Mother," he replied, "they're such terrible, noisy people. The one on that side keeps banging his head on the wall and won't stop. The one on the other side screams and screams all night."
"Oh Donald! How do you manage to put up with these awful noisy English neighbours?"
"Well, mother, I just ignore them and stay in my room and play my pipes."


Now that I think about it, I don't think bagpipes can play more than one tone at a time. So no, probably not. Though if they could, G-Fiss is probably what they'd play.

I think that should be another of the Musmakers legends. The Bagpipe G-Fiss.

It's like the tree falling in the empty forest question: It can be played, but who cares? ... or something.

Well, Napster was thebeginning, but personally I think Audiogalaxy was better. You could find everything there and it also added articles about bands, recomendations and things.

See? Even the irish agree with me :P I'm sure U2 and [font] also agree with me.

Lol, (I think that first joke applies to the banjo too!)

(I should probably point out that when I know next to nothing about something I get uppy when I am unsure whether the things that I think I know or true or not :P)
I thought that the bagpipes came for the East? used in a military context again.. well anyway the brief history of pipes that I heard was that they came from the east, were popular across europe; leaving the scots now behind musical fashion sense by about 1000 years.

I think there has been a lot of music shared between England, Ireland and Scotland; I (for instance) continue to find in books the same tunes (even in name) attributed to different countries, though I thought that Ullian pipes were the staple of Irish folk piping... anway i was sad enough to check on this- the Scottish bagpipes have three harmony pipes one bass and two tenor, tuned two octaves and one octave below the tonic note of the scale of that instrument. do you need more than two notes to make a chord?

Has Hedda inadvertently just made up a new zen story?... though
"Can G-Fiss be played with a bagpipe?"
sounds a bit rhetorical.

He's been a zen master for several years now... at least since I've known him.

Lol, apparently they scared the hell out of Crusaders in the holy land with them; why we adopted them after, if that is the case, is a little confusing perhaps... as an instrument of leasure, though they might only have become that because of our quaint notions of the past I suppose.