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Pay the Piper

Posted by Sidonie (Sydney, Australia) on 21 February 2007 in People & Portraits and Portfolio.

Musical accompaniment to the Greek dances at the Canberra Food and Dance Festival, February 10th 2007, was provided by a drummer and bagpipe player.

According to Wiki's definition, the Greek bagpipe is a -

"Tsampouna (also tsambouna, tsabouna, etc.) : Greek island bagpipe with a double chanter, no drone and a bag made from an entire goatskin."

IMPORTANT UPDATE:

From a reader:

"The instrument you have pictured above is the northern Greek gaida, essentially the same instrument as the Djura Gaida of Bulgaria. The Tsambouna, as described by Wiki, has two five finger-hole (usually) cane pipes mounted side by side in a carved mount ('bikipia'); each is sounded by its own cane (Arundo donax) single-bladed reed. It's played with the bag in front of the body (which old pictorial evidence suggests my be a very ancient way to play, but it'd only work with fairly low bag pressures); it's a widely spread but not not commonly heard instrument in the Greek Islands of the Aegean. It's place seems tp have been largely taken over by the clarinet. More in a forthcoming edition of 'Piping Today' magazine.
<www.thepipingcentre.co.uk>"

Many thanks, Mike.
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