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Thread #62533   Message #1012926
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
04-Sep-03 - 06:26 PM
Thread Name: Uilleann Pipes
Subject: RE: Ullean Pipes
Quite right, back to the pipes on this thread.

"The bagpipe from India is known as a mushug"

A rapid Google hasn't been able to find the term, and all "Indian bagpipes" came up with were Scottish style instruments made there, Stewart tartan and all. And yet Ganesha was definitely holding elbow pipes of soem type in that photo. There must be some reason for that. (Of course the Hindu temple in London is in Neasden, hard by Cricklewood which is very Irish, so maybe there's some cross-cultural fertilisation going around.

Apropos of nothing I've got a nice little wooden statue of Ganesha - I bought it in a Catholic Christmas bazaar in Harlow. Very ecumenical. (St Ganesha, patron saint of elephants...and maybe of uilleann pipers.)