From original video: 'She asked the audience if they wanted to hear a swing song on bag pipes. The crowd was not overly enthusiastic until they heard her. She surprised everyone.'
The instrument looks like what is called in French a “Cornemuse Flamande” in Flemish/Dutch a “Moezelsack” or in German a “Schäferpfeiffe.” It’s a type of instrument found throughout the regions surrounding the Lower Rhine.
"From original video"... Why TF copy it?! And obviously only a part. Ever heard of something called "copyright"? Not to mention that you not even give tribute to the artist by putting her name anywhere. 😠
This is a different type of bagpipes to Scottish highland pipes, they have multiple drone pipes and a much harsher sound, this only has one drone like Uilleann/Irish pipes or pibgorn/Welsh pipes.
@theothertonydutch my town does an annual Blues festival and every year there's this guy that comes and actually blows fire from his bagpipes when he plays
These aren’t scottish pipes, scottish highland pipes have multiple drone pipes and a much harsher sound, this only has one drone like Uilleann/Irish pipes or pibgorn/Welsh pipes.
You have to love the fact that, not only is she playing a blues jam on a bagpipe, she's doing so on a single-drone Renaissance-style pipe. It's like blues meets baroque.
That low rumbling you just heard was my Dad rolling over in his grave. My Dad loved Jazz/Blues but detested the bag pipes. It's a whole new world, Dad.
@@Whayleejay well the only thing stopping a traditional great highlands bagpipe from being played like that really is the fact that it isn't tuned to the same pitch standards as most instruments, similar reason as to why most old brass instruments in the UK can't play in an orchestra.
What people typically think of as "Bagpipes" are the Great Highland Bagpipes - these are the ones locked in a myxolidian key (I think). She's playing a different kind of bagpipe which can play a wider range of notes. The clickbait in the title relies on how most people don't know that.
i was so disapponted at how many likes you have. this shouöd have like 20K likes. and then i came for the comments... I thought it was only us old folk on youtube anymore
Wow! That was surprisingly good. I’ve been a blues/jazz fan for over 60 years and I have to admit that she took bagpipes to a new level. Perfect in every way. Well done.
@@RedRiverMan English is not my native language, let alone Scottish but it was pretty easy for me to read it as "how are we supposed to march to that, lady?". However, idk about the 7th Highlander reference.
99% agree. The only issue I see is that rests are nearly impossible, but that can be fixed by having a different style of bagpipe (such as uilleann pipes) that can stop playing instead of having a constant stream of air.
I only recently discovered her (playing a trombone) on YT she is extremely talented. Also, if you look around, she can play three trumpets at the same time 😄
Nothing surprises me about Gunhild’s insane array of skills. I’ve seen her play (live!) legitimate jazz on bagpipes. She half holes the notes to simulate chromatics. She plays jazz on a recorder and does that well. She plays bass, piano, harp, trombone, and even three trumpets at once. I’m short, she is a force of nature…as is her entire family!
Leave it to Gunhild Carling to transcend human limits and prove everyone wrong about everything. What a special performer, we won't see anyone quite like her again any time soon.
@@drdoom8793 Now, please timestamp where she's transcended a human limit because as a musician that didn't look like particularly insane sheet music at all.
This isn’t jazz, and she isn’t the “Wonder Woman” of ANY Black American art form. Stop being ridiculous. Leave it to white people to crown a white woman playing blues on a damn bagpipe as “the Wonder Woman of Jazz”. And then y’all wonder why no one likes you. 🙄 If this was a Black woman being called the queen of any European genre, y’all would RIOT, and you know it.
THE ABSOLUTE ONLY BAGPIPES I HAVE EVER HEARD THAT I EVEN REMOTELY LIKED! THANKS FOR THIS POST!!!! Well it does look like a clarinet with a leather bag attached to it.
This is a different type of bagpipes to Scottish highland pipes, they have multiple drone pipes and a much harsher sound, this only has one drone like Uilleann/Irish pipes or pibgorn/Welsh pipes which sound like a harmonica crossed with some sort of woodwind instrument.
I thought I was listening to a harmonica or some kinda ultra American stuff for a second It’s amazing how diverse instruments’ capabilities can be with enough time and creativity
Also how much of a sound gets wrapped up in the type of music it’s most often used in. Probably nobody here has heard bagpipes in anything other than some obnoxious ceremony.
@@thomasharris9059 There’s a busker on bagpipes who sometimes plays around where I live and he’s pretty cool, but yeah definitely the stereotype is a terribly played screech at a war memorial event or something.
@@ooka_booka lol good question It just reminded me of a lot of US country music with harmonica I guess. Very opposite of what I think of when I think of bagpipes.
@@DavidNefelimSlayer Your absolutely correct about this because once you've heard it I know I'll never be the same person. I never heard such a thing before and probably never will again. It's completely mind blowing. 👍✌🇺🇸 💯%
Not being a musician, the value of this channel for me is finding these fantastic performers I had never even heard of before. Please keep spotlighting these great people!
Try out Gunhild Carling + Postmodern Jukebox. PMJ has lots of ultra-fantastic performances (...mostly in one take) -> ruclips.net/video/wAQ7autd61g/видео.html
Didgeridoo is pretty cool and that's also played with circular breathing. Check out Bakerboy. What more accomplished bag pipe players can do with the chanter and no bag.
No, its perfectly rated because if it got any bigger we would see it in disgusting places that would make every pipe instrument weep in unison Do you really want to spaibagpipes used in a lizzo song? Or Eminem? Or may the gods help us beyonce?
Holy cow the tone on that is like a cross between a harmonica and a wind instrument, soprano sax specifically. Super unique and wonderful tone to be heard in a blues
@@lred1383 I feel like they meant woodwind. but then again sax's aren't made of wood anymore. they could of also meant a reided instrument which most woodwind instruments are
Met her at a NAMM show in '19 and helper her schlep her trombone and luggage into the building and find the brass booth she was to meet her friends at. I played trumpet with her while her and her cohorts played trombones. Had no idea about her. Come to find out, she is absolutely dedicated to early jazz, though I saw her video where she performed SOLO on a friggin Harp, for the king of Sweden in a fancy music hall. She's equally adept at Trumpet, Piano, sings beautifully, and comes from a family of musicians. She's sweet as can be, and impressive on every instrument she touches.
So there's an old story from WW1 ... A Scots regiment is going "over the top" and a s was customary the pipers led them into battle. "Scotland the brave "...So they're advancing across no man's land and the Germans open fire with a merciless barrage of rifle fire and men start to go down one after another , still the Jocks advance , Pipers still blowing away "The Campbells are Coming" then the German machine guns join in "rat a tat tat" mowing down men by the dozen .Still the Jocks come on .... Then the howl of Mortars and artillery raining down shells on the advancing Jocks until, in a very short time there is only a single rifleman left .... and he turns to the piper and a says "Good grief man ! Can ye no' play sumthin they like ?? !!" :)
Yes, they are. You’d wouldn’t think so because with far too many American owners of Scottish Great Highland Bagpipes, those are the only tunes they know and they can’t be arsed to learn anything else. They give the tradition - and any associated with it, not to mention pipers in other, non-Scottish piping traditions, and their instruments, a bad name…seriously.
I’ve seen her live twice. Her TROMBONE playing is more precise and articulate than any trumpeter I’ve ever seen or heard-and then you should hear her on trumpet! The greatest of the great.
It’s like a saxophone and a harmonica had a weird, hard to play baby. She’s killing it with that circular breathing (I think that’s what she’s doing?!)
A bagpipe does not require circular breathing. Your breath goes into the bag, the pressure on the bag plays the instrument. Which makes it such a great instrument for this; There is no interruption since you're not using your breath to directly play the music.
I agree as I'd thought "alto - sax and a marine band in the key of A". Least we not forget that AC/DC's song "Long way to the top " wouldn't be the same without the bagpipe solo.
I really feel like no-one should be surprised she can do that on a bagpipe because it takes decades to learn how to play a bagpipe properly(which why you tend to only see old people playing bagpipes). It's a serious skill and if you're good at it, you can basically play whatever on it. Lol
Really ? Scottish bagpipes in the mist of the Highlands or bagadou in britanny always make me shiver. And that bagpipe scene in Dune was one of the most impactful moments I've seen in a while. I guess I always considered bagpipes to have a universal effect (regardless of whether people actually enjoy the sound or not)
I would encourage people to go listen to traditional music from other, non-Scottish piping traditions as well. E.g. Galician, Asturian, Auvergnois, Pays D’Oc, Calabrian/Sicilian, Bulgarian, Cornemuses de Centre, Bretagne, Catalonian/Mallorcan, Iranian, etc
Provided you choose a set of bag pipes without drones. Essentially she's playing a reeded recorder connected to a wind bag quite different to a Scottish set of pipes.
Worked with a guy who played the bag pipes. He was practicing in his lunch hour in the car park because he was going to a competition. He played Stairway To Heaven and about 50 people walked along the street to listen and were blown away. It sounded amazing.
I love how "musicians" on tiktok go into comment sections of bagpipe videos, commenting about how fake the playing is without having a single clue about how a bagpipe works
I haven’t seen any such comments, but there is ignorance aplenty regarding the larger bagpipes family of instruments and the music that is played on them traditionally
Fr, theres someone in this comment section calling this fake bcs She stopped blowing into the bagpipe at 0:52 or smth Like buddy... You dont need to be constantly blowing for a bagpipe to play
Thank you, Gunhild. You were extremely nice to share your talent with us on this occasion. I, for one, am grateful to have seen this. You are wildly creative and motivated.
This comment section to this video shows the separation between real lovers of music and people who always have to have an opinion on everything- because, as somebody who I like to think fits and the group one, that sounded amazing!
The original video was the first time I’d ever seen Gunhild Carling perform - I was instantly hooked. She plays many instruments, all at this level of skill or higher. Wonderful stuff!
I loved this. Someone gets on their instrument of choice and plays whatever the hell they want and nails it. She’s amazing. Wish I could have heard this live from up front.
I’m not sure that a true Scot would appreciate this: it’s very clever, great musically and played fantastically, but I reckon that my Auchmithie-born Father-in-Law is spinning in his grave right now. She may be playing bagpipes, but they’re not “The Pipes”.
@@Zacharia503 I think that is the point of her saying Scottish american. Your mixing Scottish music with American music. And why would a true scott like it if their not true american lol. You can have pride in all your heritage you know ?
These aren’t Scottish pipes, this is a different type of bagpipes to Scottish highland pipes, they have multiple drone pipes and a much harsher sound, this only has one drone like Uilleann/Irish pipes or pibgorn/Welsh pipes.
In all the years I have been posting, I have never used this word, and I avoid using IRL due to ppl using it when it is not warranted; but that was *truly AWESOME!*
@@q12aw50 OK. For the most part, I think the way ppl use the word "awesome" is just stupid. It was, for the most part, brought into usage by the first Ninja Turtles movie, and to me, it reduced the word to meaninglessness by overuse. It has lost it's meaning of "inspiring awe". This clip, in me, inspires *AWE.*
These aren’t scottish highland pipes, they have multiple drone pipes and a much harsher sound, this only has one drone like Uilleann/Irish pipes or pibgorn/Welsh pipes.
It's so interesting and cool. The sound and groove feels like something from a harmonica. I just never would have suspected a sound like that could come from a bagpipe! Amazing.
Bagpipes like harmonicas are a single key instrument. When you play blues on a harmonica you play “cross harp” which means you play a harmonica in the key of the 4th note of the key of the music you are playing (ie to play blues in E you play an A harmonica). She’s doing the same thing with bagpipes. Pretty neat if you’re a music nerd.
She could also be playing blues in the relative minor key, e.g., playing blues in E using G bagpipes. That's not as commonly used on harmonica as cross harp because cross harp provides a lot of useful bent notes. But an instrument that strictly sticks to in-key notes -- either a full major scale or even just a major pentatonic -- matches better with relative minor (Aeolian mode). A major scale instrument with no bending can also play a decent blues using Dorian mode (playing E blues using a D instrument) or even Phrygian mode (playing over E blues with a C instrument)
Now I have heard really swinging blues played on a medieval bagpipe... My life is enriched! Music can be timeless stuff without cultural ties. Greetings from a violin-playing jazz guy from Norway...
By removing 2 of the drones, the pipes sticking up that play a constant series of notes, changes the instrument. She is now playing a modified clarinet. Still impressive
Aha! That explains it! I couldn't put my finger on what was different🤔 I saw that there were fewer little "chimneys" on her bagpipe but didn't notice....
One of the first Gunhild Carling videos I saw was about 15 years ago. She played a blues style Amazing Grace on bagpipes. It was amazing and it was graceful.
From original video: 'She asked the audience if they wanted to hear a swing song on bag pipes. The crowd was not overly enthusiastic until they heard her. She surprised everyone.'
Do you have the link of the og vid
@@usvei The link is in the description…
She's amazing; her channel is a real treat. Tons of live performances with her family.
The instrument looks like what is called in French a “Cornemuse Flamande” in Flemish/Dutch a “Moezelsack” or in German a “Schäferpfeiffe.” It’s a type of instrument found throughout the regions surrounding the Lower Rhine.
"From original video"... Why TF copy it?! And obviously only a part. Ever heard of something called "copyright"? Not to mention that you not even give tribute to the artist by putting her name anywhere. 😠
"We didn't know it could do that!" - Scotland
This is a different type of bagpipes to Scottish highland pipes, they have multiple drone pipes and a much harsher sound, this only has one drone like Uilleann/Irish pipes or pibgorn/Welsh pipes.
~ Shrek, probably
This comment made me laugh so hard . Absolutely brilliant 👏 😂
Best comment ever 😂😂😂
Wae dinnae noe i’ cou’ dew tha’!
“And now for something completely different “
"A man with two noses."
A man with a tape recorder up his nose.
"IT'S-"
Always a good time for some Monty Python!
@@jasonulloa MONTY PYTHONS FLYING CIRCUSSSSSS
That lady is SMOKING those bagpipes!!! My hat is off to her, what a performance.❤❤❤
Pretty sure I saw flames coming out at some point
@@theothertonydutchJESSE WE NEED TO GET BAGPIPES
@theothertonydutch my town does an annual Blues festival and every year there's this guy that comes and actually blows fire from his bagpipes when he plays
Swedish quality
That's not just any lady. That's the legendary Gunhild Carling-one of the greatest performing instrumentalists in history.
This is so cool. I'd have never imagined bagpipes sounding like this. Incredibly talented lady.
These aren’t scottish pipes, scottish highland pipes have multiple drone pipes and a much harsher sound, this only has one drone like Uilleann/Irish pipes or pibgorn/Welsh pipes.
It's almost like the bagpipes never found their true calling until someone did this!
You have to love the fact that, not only is she playing a blues jam on a bagpipe, she's doing so on a single-drone Renaissance-style pipe. It's like blues meets baroque.
Are we sure it's a she? Can't tell these days
@@b.c.4902 take your bigotry elsewhere. It's pathetic. And yes, Gunhild Carling is a woman.
@@b.c.4902 what does this have to do with anything here you silly goose
Also Gunnhild Carling is a cis woman
@@TryinaD B.C. is a troll
@@b.c.4902 what's even the point in worrying?
That low rumbling you just heard was my Dad rolling over in his grave. My Dad loved Jazz/Blues but detested the bag pipes. It's a whole new world, Dad.
If he liked Dixieland at all he might've liked this
😅😅😅 way to go!!! ❤ bet he’s dancing not rolling 🎉🎉🎉🎉
😂😂😂😂❤
😂 😂 😂
No one cares.
Not only have I never heard the bagpipes played like that, but it never even crossed my mind that they COULD be
They can't be, she is playing what is essentially a conventional woodwind.
@@Whayleejay well the only thing stopping a traditional great highlands bagpipe from being played like that really is the fact that it isn't tuned to the same pitch standards as most instruments, similar reason as to why most old brass instruments in the UK can't play in an orchestra.
@@xander1052 And there aren't the couple of sustained drones that completely alter the tone.
you need to watch ally the piper
What people typically think of as "Bagpipes" are the Great Highland Bagpipes - these are the ones locked in a myxolidian key (I think). She's playing a different kind of bagpipe which can play a wider range of notes. The clickbait in the title relies on how most people don't know that.
“I guess you guys aren’t ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it.”
I understood that reference -late 90s baby
OK Dad, Dad, Daddy Oh.
i was so disapponted at how many likes you have. this shouöd have like 20K likes. and then i came for the comments... I thought it was only us old folk on youtube anymore
@@gabewarwick2002 well, I am surprised it even got more than 2 likes, I am very proud of myself :)
When Marty said it, it was true. Sadly, coming generations won't like anything, let alone this.
Sounds like a clarinet and a harmonica combined haha
True
Lol
You liked it
theres also a bit of fiddle there lol
Sooo basically an oboe lol
@@slimyturtle4665 no, the oboe is warmer
Wow! That was surprisingly good. I’ve been a blues/jazz fan for over 60 years and I have to admit that she took bagpipes to a new level. Perfect in every way. Well done.
“Hae we ta march ta that, laddie?”
- 7th Highlander
Was frauen so mit den Händen alles könnem😂
@@TatjanaReuter It just turned out that not a single one is interested in playing your pipe.
@@CorePathway now why does google not translate scots?
@@RedRiverMan English is not my native language, let alone Scottish but it was pretty easy for me to read it as "how are we supposed to march to that, lady?". However, idk about the 7th Highlander reference.
That not only worked, this instrument is actually perfect for blues!! It sounds like a harmonica with a more piercing, intense sound. Love it!
I feel like this would work as a replacement for a violin in a pinch
99% agree. The only issue I see is that rests are nearly impossible, but that can be fixed by having a different style of bagpipe (such as uilleann pipes) that can stop playing instead of having a constant stream of air.
@@TheShire26 I feel like this would work in a pinch if a Folley Artist needed to simulate a bag full of cats.
@@DavidNefelimSlayer 🤣🤣🤣 perfect
i bet she could put down some sort of down and dirty bassline too ?? Killer Sound....just Wow and Boooom !
This is simultaneously the most Southern, Scottish, sci-fi, _and_ steampunk thing I've seen in quite a while.
She's scandinavian though :)
Wtf does this have to do with sci-fi or steampunk??
@@lachlanbell8390steampunk fanatics think anything that's rustic automatically belongs in their weirdo genre
I’m currently on tour with Gunhild, and it is truly a mind blowing experience. She’s absolutely incredible to work with.
Wow! It must be amazing!
Ever tried to talk politics with her?
I only recently discovered her (playing a trombone) on YT she is extremely talented.
Also, if you look around, she can play three trumpets at the same time 😄
@@jrmusic8556 yes, and she is in no way a “Nazi sympathizer” as you’ve suggested. Be gone, troll.
@@jrmusic8556 That's how I got my black-eye!
Nothing surprises me about Gunhild’s insane array of skills. I’ve seen her play (live!) legitimate jazz on bagpipes. She half holes the notes to simulate chromatics. She plays jazz on a recorder and does that well. She plays bass, piano, harp, trombone, and even three trumpets at once. I’m short, she is a force of nature…as is her entire family!
Legitimately saw her balance a trumpet on her head with no hands and play it live
@@Taylor-eg4ud Like a dolphin would I guess? Does she have a hole on top of her head?
LUCKY! I'm so jealous
Marks n Schwartz - 3 trumpets at once, the mind boggles !!!
I didn't catch the half holing, but I was a self-taught piper pre-internet and RUclips. I pretty sure she overblew some notes though.
I was born and raised in New Orleans , Jazz and the Blues I have heard all my life ...I've Never heard a bagpipe play the Blues ...Great talent !
She's a multiinstrumentalist. But her main instrument is trumpet or trombone, and she's pretty deeply into old style jazz.
Satchmo would have loved it
Leave it to Gunhild Carling to transcend human limits and prove everyone wrong about everything. What a special performer, we won't see anyone quite like her again any time soon.
Okay bud, way to over hype something
@@THEEJONESY Try googling before you speak on something you know nothing about. She’s a fantastic musician
Man you scared me half to death. The way you phrased that made me think she died or something 😂
@@mariacrane4511 now I look at it again, it does look a bit like an obituary 😂 my bad
@@drdoom8793 Now, please timestamp where she's transcended a human limit because as a musician that didn't look like particularly insane sheet music at all.
Wow, they really do call her "The wonder woman of jazz" for good reason. That's incredible
Have you seen her play 3 trumpets at once? Or a banjo and trumpet at the same time?
The über woman of jazz, if you will.
This isn’t jazz, and she isn’t the “Wonder Woman” of ANY Black American art form. Stop being ridiculous. Leave it to white people to crown a white woman playing blues on a damn bagpipe as “the Wonder Woman of Jazz”. And then y’all wonder why no one likes you. 🙄
If this was a Black woman being called the queen of any European genre, y’all would RIOT, and you know it.
That's a woman who has really learned to play the bagpipe - and taken it to an entirely different level.
Nothing but respect from here.
As Eugene would say, She took it to a 'hole 'nother level! 🤚
THE ABSOLUTE ONLY BAGPIPES I HAVE EVER HEARD THAT I EVEN REMOTELY LIKED! THANKS FOR THIS POST!!!! Well it does look like a clarinet with a leather bag attached to it.
This is a different type of bagpipes to Scottish highland pipes, they have multiple drone pipes and a much harsher sound, this only has one drone like Uilleann/Irish pipes or pibgorn/Welsh pipes which sound like a harmonica crossed with some sort of woodwind instrument.
I thought I was listening to a harmonica or some kinda ultra American stuff for a second
It’s amazing how diverse instruments’ capabilities can be with enough time and creativity
Also how much of a sound gets wrapped up in the type of music it’s most often used in. Probably nobody here has heard bagpipes in anything other than some obnoxious ceremony.
@@thomasharris9059 There’s a busker on bagpipes who sometimes plays around where I live and he’s pretty cool, but yeah definitely the stereotype is a terribly played screech at a war memorial event or something.
What does ultra American sound like
@@ooka_booka lol good question
It just reminded me of a lot of US country music with harmonica I guess. Very opposite of what I think of when I think of bagpipes.
And fyi harmonica is a German invention.
She's broken a sound barrier. This is just plain great and talent beyond the norms. Thank you for sharing this.
Impossible to unhear for sure
@@DavidNefelimSlayer Your absolutely correct about this because once you've heard it I know I'll never be the same person. I never heard such a thing before and probably never will again. It's completely mind blowing. 👍✌🇺🇸 💯%
find some rufus harley, the pied 'piper' of jazz . 1965.
*she’s baroquen a sound barrier
First time I ever stank faced to a damn bagpipe
Not being a musician, the value of this channel for me is finding these fantastic performers I had never even heard of before. Please keep spotlighting these great people!
Try out Gunhild Carling + Postmodern Jukebox. PMJ has lots of ultra-fantastic performances (...mostly in one take) -> ruclips.net/video/wAQ7autd61g/видео.html
indeed indeed indeed indeed
Same here😍 Love seeing talented people!
Bag pipes are literally the most underrated instrument they make every song better
Funny because this video is a combination of most hated things in music: jazz, bagpipes and instrumental solos 😂
Didgeridoo is pretty cool and that's also played with circular breathing. Check out Bakerboy.
What more accomplished bag pipe players can do with the chanter and no bag.
No, its perfectly rated because if it got any bigger we would see it in disgusting places that would make every pipe instrument weep in unison
Do you really want to spaibagpipes used in a lizzo song? Or Eminem? Or may the gods help us beyonce?
Holy cow the tone on that is like a cross between a harmonica and a wind instrument, soprano sax specifically. Super unique and wonderful tone to be heard in a blues
And from Majestic War Pipes which were banned in Scotland for hundreds of years. That sound resonates with the human ear like no other.
I'm sorry, but isn't harmonica already a wind instrument? You do play it using your breath
@@lred1383 I feel like they meant woodwind. but then again sax's aren't made of wood anymore. they could of also meant a reided instrument which most woodwind instruments are
@@yournosebleedonmylap But a harmonica is a reeded instrument.
Sounds like an oboe to me, tbh maybe just with a bigger range, with a little less of the oboe sound
When you think you've seen about everything unusual on RUclips, this gem comes along. She is wonderful !
Your not wrong there Stu!
I mean, of all the things on youtube, this is the weirdest?? You lucky, sheltered man....
Met her at a NAMM show in '19 and helper her schlep her trombone and luggage into the building and find the brass booth she was to meet her friends at. I played trumpet with her while her and her cohorts played trombones. Had no idea about her. Come to find out, she is absolutely dedicated to early jazz, though I saw her video where she performed SOLO on a friggin Harp, for the king of Sweden in a fancy music hall. She's equally adept at Trumpet, Piano, sings beautifully, and comes from a family of musicians. She's sweet as can be, and impressive on every instrument she touches.
What is this multi talented musicians name? This is fantastic 😊
@@curtcaudle5900 Her name is Gunhild Carling.
She's got skills!! She kills on piano while singing torch tunes. Amazing woman.
@@reminaya thanks 👍🌹
Great story! Thanks ❤
'Impressive on every instrument she touches'. ...🤐
As far as I'm concerned, any instrument can play the Blues. It's all in how the instrument is played.
I love playing blues on a traditional flute you know the straight pipe with holes.
what about a harpsichord?
yes, i play the blues on a traditional bamboo flute.
My mouth was hanging open the entire time in disbelief. Not only does it work, but it sounds excellent.
This is, quite frankly, actually insane.
Actually?
#DavidVanwye:
He didn't expect it to be awesome.
No what would be insane is to leave your head in that bag full of cats.
We may have painted our faces blue, they may have taken our pipes, but they won't take our FREEDOM! 🗡
@@DavidNefelimSlayer 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I KNEW bagpipes were capable of more than just Amazing Grace and Scotland the Brave
Let us give thanks.
So there's an old story from WW1 ... A Scots regiment is going "over the top" and a s was customary the pipers led them into battle. "Scotland the brave "...So they're advancing across no man's land and the Germans open fire with a merciless barrage of rifle fire and men start to go down one after another , still the Jocks advance , Pipers still blowing away "The Campbells are Coming" then the German machine guns join in "rat a tat tat" mowing down men by the dozen .Still the Jocks come on .... Then the howl of Mortars and artillery raining down shells on the advancing Jocks until, in a very short time there is only a single rifleman left .... and he turns to the piper and a says "Good grief man ! Can ye no' play sumthin they like ?? !!" :)
Yeh...and "Going Home".
Yes, they are. You’d wouldn’t think so because with far too many American owners of Scottish Great Highland Bagpipes, those are the only tunes they know and they can’t be arsed to learn anything else. They give the tradition - and any associated with it, not to mention pipers in other, non-Scottish piping traditions, and their instruments, a bad name…seriously.
And Danny Boy.
I’ve seen her live twice. Her TROMBONE playing is more precise and articulate than any trumpeter I’ve ever seen or heard-and then you should hear her on trumpet! The greatest of the great.
Thank God the algorithm got me here! this woman is unbelievable! I want more!
This sounds a lot like a clarinet, without any pauses needed to breathe since the bag holds air that can be used while she breathes. Very cool.
It reminds me of trying sleep next to a bag full of cats a continuous melody
It’s like a saxophone and a harmonica had a weird, hard to play baby.
She’s killing it with that circular breathing (I think that’s what she’s doing?!)
A bagpipe does not require circular breathing. Your breath goes into the bag, the pressure on the bag plays the instrument. Which makes it such a great instrument for this; There is no interruption since you're not using your breath to directly play the music.
its a bagpie not a digeridoo
I agree as I'd thought "alto - sax and a marine band in the key of A". Least we not forget that AC/DC's song "Long way to the top " wouldn't be the same without the bagpipe solo.
I misread that as the bagpipes are a weird, hard to play baby. I'm fairly sure that's still accurate though.
@@alexythemechanic8056 thats correct tho or am I stoopid?
I really feel like no-one should be surprised she can do that on a bagpipe because it takes decades to learn how to play a bagpipe properly(which why you tend to only see old people playing bagpipes). It's a serious skill and if you're good at it, you can basically play whatever on it. Lol
First time I can honestly say that I've gotten chills from hearing a bagpipe play. Incredible stuff.
Really ? Scottish bagpipes in the mist of the Highlands or bagadou in britanny always make me shiver. And that bagpipe scene in Dune was one of the most impactful moments I've seen in a while. I guess I always considered bagpipes to have a universal effect (regardless of whether people actually enjoy the sound or not)
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Must be your first time hearing bagpipes! Congrats!
Didn’t expect this comment. Awesome performer btw!!
You should hear someone who is just learning the bagpipe. That will give you the chills.
You need lungs of steel to even play the bagpipes, so this woman immediately gets my respect!
What an absolute unit!
She looks like she has a set of healthy lungs on her...
Looks exhausting
@@ffjsb sounds like you wanna sell them on the black market
@@monke9386 ?????
😂😂😂
If its slightly strange bagpipe music you want, go check out the 'red hot chilli pipers'. My personal favorite of theirs is 'Jazz Badger'
I would encourage people to go listen to traditional music from other, non-Scottish piping traditions as well. E.g. Galician, Asturian, Auvergnois, Pays D’Oc, Calabrian/Sicilian, Bulgarian, Cornemuses de Centre, Bretagne, Catalonian/Mallorcan, Iranian, etc
And Irish and Border pipes.
@@patrickcannady2066 Yep enjoy!
blues ----- bagpipe
I never even THOUGHT
of a way to put those two words together
in the same sentence.
(never had a reason to)
After viewing this video in its entirety, I can indeed confirm that you CAN play jazz on bagpipes.
You can play jazz in whatever meets your fancy.
As a pipe of bags, can confirm
Provided you choose a set of bag pipes without drones. Essentially she's playing a reeded recorder connected to a wind bag quite different to a Scottish set of pipes.
You could also arrange an aria of flatulent sphincters, butt why?
@@Squirrel-zq6oe or a bag of cats
I love how as soon as she starts playing everyone in the audience is like “OH! OH MY AH WHAT AH WHAT OH MY GOD WHAT”
Not only can she do it, the sound works extremely well. Like a mix of harmonics and a a clarinet.
Worked with a guy who played the bag pipes. He was practicing in his lunch hour in the car park because he was going to a competition. He played Stairway To Heaven and about 50 people walked along the street to listen and were blown away. It sounded amazing.
I love how "musicians" on tiktok go into comment sections of bagpipe videos, commenting about how fake the playing is without having a single clue about how a bagpipe works
I haven’t seen any such comments, but there is ignorance aplenty regarding the larger bagpipes family of instruments and the music that is played on them traditionally
Fr, theres someone in this comment section calling this fake bcs She stopped blowing into the bagpipe at 0:52 or smth
Like buddy... You dont need to be constantly blowing for a bagpipe to play
Gunhild Carling is the best jazz performer of the modern age…change my mind.
Wrong .....i am
Miles Davis? Like be more specific if you’re going to make such a stupid claim.
@@Jaxck77 not sure miles Davis counts as "modern age" considering he died over 30 years ago
@@napilopez the "modern age" historically ended around 1930, and postmodernity set in after WWII.
@@jeffredfern3744 Technical definitions aside, I just assume that OP meant someone who has, you know, been alive recently.
Thank you, Gunhild. You were extremely nice to share your talent with us on this occasion. I, for one, am grateful to have seen this. You are wildly creative and motivated.
This comment section to this video shows the separation between real lovers of music and people who always have to have an opinion on everything- because, as somebody who I like to think fits and the group one, that sounded amazing!
she tap dances, can play 3 trumpets at the same time, and now bagpipes? gawddamn this woman is the definition of gifted!
You forgot balancing and playing trumpet while playing upright bass at the same time ruclips.net/video/YPJMcxXerxM/видео.html
That woman could rip out my lung and play it perfectly.
How, exactly, does she play three trumpets at the same time?
@@sheldoniusRex top 10 mysteries of the universe
The original video was the first time I’d ever seen Gunhild Carling perform - I was instantly hooked. She plays many instruments, all at this level of skill or higher. Wonderful stuff!
Smoothest thing I’ve ever heard come out of a bladder flute! 😮
I loved this. Someone gets on their instrument of choice and plays whatever the hell they want and nails it. She’s amazing. Wish I could have heard this live from up front.
Well, it's certainly the best I've ever heard bagpipes sound 😂
Honestly, she is pretty awesome!
Probably because it's not a scottish military pipe
@@KP3droflxp horrible things.
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@@IRQ1Conflict thanks for sharing , that was badass!
@@sampreece3900 A Scottis frind of mine might say blow off!
That is just ridiculous! Crazy talent.
That's amazing!!! It's incredible how well this instrument suits the blues
As a Scottish-American, this warms my heart. I wish my mother was alive to hear it. I'm sending the clip to my grandson, who is starting the bagpipes.
I’m not sure that a true Scot would appreciate this: it’s very clever, great musically and played fantastically, but I reckon that my Auchmithie-born Father-in-Law is spinning in his grave right now. She may be playing bagpipes, but they’re not “The Pipes”.
@@Zacharia503 I think that is the point of her saying Scottish american. Your mixing Scottish music with American music. And why would a true scott like it if their not true american lol. You can have pride in all your heritage you know ?
@@anthonygordon9483 My fiercely Scottish Brother-in-Law was certainly not happy when he discovered that he was 1/16th English....
These aren’t Scottish pipes, this is a different type of bagpipes to Scottish highland pipes, they have multiple drone pipes and a much harsher sound, this only has one drone like Uilleann/Irish pipes or pibgorn/Welsh pipes.
@@Blaidd7542 Good to know!
This lady never fails to amaze me. She’s so crazy talented.
She took them to church! She obviously can so play some awesome blues on those pipes! 👍💯💙🎶🎵🎼🔥🔥
In all the years I have been posting, I have never used this word, and I avoid using IRL due to ppl using it when it is not warranted; but that was *truly AWESOME!*
What
@@q12aw50 OK. For the most part, I think the way ppl use the word "awesome" is just stupid. It was, for the most part, brought into usage by the first Ninja Turtles movie, and to me, it reduced the word to meaninglessness by overuse.
It has lost it's meaning of "inspiring awe". This clip, in me, inspires *AWE.*
@@FistandFootMartialArts schizoposting
WOW... GAVE ME CHILLS..
She has some real TALENT...
Undeniable... You CAN PLAY the BLUES on a BAGPIPE.
This is so amazing I am sitting here just stunned and grateful to have ears.
She’s really baggin’ those pipes
Holy...... that is simply amazing. Sounds great!
Scotland just sobered up when they heard this. "You mean we can play it differently laddy?"
Lassie
These aren’t scottish highland pipes, they have multiple drone pipes and a much harsher sound, this only has one drone like Uilleann/Irish pipes or pibgorn/Welsh pipes.
I love the sound and tradition of the bagpipes but that was absolutely terrific .
Not I'm a million years would I have thought to combine these two things but it works PERFECTLY. Amazing performance!
Sounds FANTASTIC! Love someone who pushes the envelope, and does not take "You can't" seriously!
WOW! She just added another instrument to the jazz array!
Gunhild Carling's talent and love for music is a gift. They do multiple live streams every week too, so lots of opportunities to enjoy their talents
She just made musical history! 🙏🔥🔥🔥
It's so interesting and cool. The sound and groove feels like something from a harmonica. I just never would have suspected a sound like that could come from a bagpipe! Amazing.
Stunningly talented musician. Just, WOW.
Incredible. Loved seeing her fellow musicians enjoying her performance behind her!
She is so gifted!!!!! Whatever she picks up to play she plays so flawlessly.
Love the Technique , awesome possibilities for this .
Bagpipes like harmonicas are a single key instrument. When you play blues on a harmonica you play “cross harp” which means you play a harmonica in the key of the 4th note of the key of the music you are playing (ie to play blues in E you play an A harmonica). She’s doing the same thing with bagpipes. Pretty neat if you’re a music nerd.
She could also be playing blues in the relative minor key, e.g., playing blues in E using G bagpipes. That's not as commonly used on harmonica as cross harp because cross harp provides a lot of useful bent notes. But an instrument that strictly sticks to in-key notes -- either a full major scale or even just a major pentatonic -- matches better with relative minor (Aeolian mode). A major scale instrument with no bending can also play a decent blues using Dorian mode (playing E blues using a D instrument) or even Phrygian mode (playing over E blues with a C instrument)
Keep on playing. So talented. Do more videos. You go girl
Gunhild is so incredibly talented - this is completely unexpected and superb.
Now that is just too fabulous.
it's like a harmonica mixed with a clarinet... brilliant!
Now I have heard really swinging blues played on a medieval bagpipe... My life is enriched! Music can be timeless stuff without cultural ties. Greetings from a violin-playing jazz guy from Norway...
Absolutely floored me!!! When music is good it's JUST good, no matter WHAT instrument 🎷 she rocked that music hall 😁🤘
It's a shame about the cut off at the end.
Thanks for putting a link to the original video.
Okay, this totally makes my day, thank you, wonderful woman in gold sequins, playing that lovely bagpipe for all it's worth! Joy!
Absolutely brilliant. I have a new found love for that instrument . This lady is brilliant . 😊
Mind blowing. This is what jazz is all about. One bad ass jam by a talented artist.
What did I just watch?! I'm amazed, confused, elated, and giddy all at once! She's a legend.
One of the most beautiful and versatile instruments today!
By removing 2 of the drones, the pipes sticking up that play a constant series of notes, changes the instrument. She is now playing a modified clarinet. Still impressive
Aha! That explains it! I couldn't put my finger on what was different🤔
I saw that there were fewer little "chimneys" on her bagpipe but didn't notice....
That's what was different. Thanks.
It's an older style of pipe. She didn't remove drones, it never had them.
That's good to know too.
@@adamliebreich-johnsen6104 I didn't say she removed them.
WOW!!! That was incredible, why havent we seen the bagpipes used in this way before? AMAZING!!!!!
You should be able to play any type of music with any instrument, it just takes the skill to do so.
Yeah, Easy Peasy……
You try playing any piece of pipe organ music (or any music, for that matter) on a triangle... See how you get on.
Someone finally connected my favourite music genre with my favourite instrument. I am in awe!
WOW! Not only is she playing genuine swing blues on bagpipe, she really has it all down cold and settin' it on
🔥fire'🔥...!
⚡👍🥴👍⚡
First time hearing this and it sent shivers down this old dudes’ spine!! Keep rockin’ the pipes, sister‼️😉🇺🇸
I love this!!! Truly masterful!❤
C Jam Blues solos always sound great no matter the instrument!
Impressive how good it sounds... blues musicians have been missing out...
I admit I started watching this with low expectations and I was ready for an "ear sore" but it was much better than I thought.
One of the first Gunhild Carling videos I saw was about 15 years ago. She played a blues style Amazing Grace on bagpipes. It was amazing and it was graceful.
Can we just give her the title of musician of the year for this ? Groundbreaking