In the history of the development of musical instruments, there is a special bagpipe called the Greek bagpipe, which has not changed a single bit since it was made, and once it is blown, we can relive the oldest sound of two thousand years ago. What exactly does a Greek bagpipe look like? How can it maintain its "original heart"? If you want to know, let Xiaobian reveal the secret for you:
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When it comes to musical instruments, presumably the flute is a common instrument used by various ethnic groups in various regions, but because of the difference in culture, the style of the flute is very different, but the principle of the qi itself is exactly the same, relying on the flow of air to produce a strong vibration, thus emitting all kinds of pleasant sounds. Of course, among the many flute instruments, there is a flute style that is very comedic, and it is the Scottish bagpipe.
The Scottish bagpipe, also known as the bag pipe, is a type of air-sounding instrument that uses reeds. From ancient times to the present, bagpipes have been very popular in The Scottish region of the United Kingdom, and even it has been completed as an inseparable part of scottish traditional culture. It is said that bagpipes are a difficult instrument to play, and only one bagpiper is produced out of every 500 people who play bagpipes, which shows that it is extremely difficult to play bagpipes well. According to historians, Scottish bagpipes appeared in the fifteenth century and became popular two centuries later, and every time on an important occasion, a Scottish bagpiper was seen, and the nobles of the time also believed that it was a particularly face-saving thing to be able to hire a bagpipe player to play for themselves.
It has to be said that the Scottish love for bagpipes has reached an incomparable point. As early as hundreds of years ago, many aristocratic families had spent a lot of money to train their children to play Scottish bagpipes, hoping to make them the most popular Scottish bagpipe players. However, the results are often not satisfactory, and even if the child studies hard, it is rare to have a real bagpipe player. At the same time, the special shape of the Scottish bagpipe has also become one of its important symbols. Once the bagpiper plays the Scottish bagpipe, he carries a huge sheepskin air bag on his back, and the bulging air bag will rise and fall with the breath of the bagpiper, and then the beautiful notes will jump into people's ears, giving people an indescribable sense of comfort. Of course, the times are progressing, and the shape of the Scottish bagpipe is constantly changing, and before that, its oldest ancestor was the Greek bagpipe.
Greek bagpipes were produced very early, about thousands of years ago, and interestingly, although time flies, the foreign trade of Greek bagpipes has not changed in the slightest. The Greek bagpipes generally include a blowpipe, a wind bag, a sound pipe and a single sound pipe in structure. The material of bag materials for bag pipes is made of pigs, cattle, sheep and other livestock fur, or modern plastic products. When playing Greek bagpipes, the way the blower will provide air to the bag is to blow air to the blowpipe, and the role of the bag is to store gas, even if the blower will interrupt, but the sound of the bagpipe can still be sustained. If the blower presses all the pipe holes, the sound stops and becomes "dumb". The monophonic tube of the bagpipe is cylindrical in shape, most of them have only one reed, and the main role is to vibrate sound.
As an extremely old instrument, musicians have a strikingly unanimous attitude toward it, that is, to praise it, believing that the Greek bagpipe not only provided inspiration for the invention of the Scottish bagpipe in later generations, but also left the purest and most original flavor. Once we play it, we can travel back in time and listen to the beautiful sounds that ancient people heard more than two thousand years ago.
At this time, a question arises, the continuous evolution of musical instruments represents the improvement of people's aesthetic tastes, but does the immutable process of Greek bagpipes represent conformism? In fact, music can exist in many styles, and there is no so-called high and low distinction in itself, so as far as it is concerned, it is not seen, but it is actually adhering to the ancient spirit of music. We can give an example, during the Tang Dynasty on the mainland, there was a musical instrument called "shakuhachi", which was later extradited by the Tang envoys and became the most popular instrument in Dongying. Over the millennia, the mainland has gradually changed it to a harp, but Toei shakuhachi has not made any changes, and its sound is still lingering, and the theme song of the famous anime "Naruto" is played by shakuhachi, and the response is extremely strong.
From this we can also find that for musical instruments, the original has the original wild beauty, and the modern has the length of the modern rhyme, and the two cannot be compared and confused. Because from an artistic point of view, any beautiful sound is unique, and it cannot be completely replaced by other instruments.
References: The Gift of History, by Yang Yuqing published by Liaoning Publishing House
Wen xiucai, editor-in-chief of Wenlan Hairun Studio, written by: Special history writer: Changshan Zhao Zi worm