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Thread #20632 Message #833040
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
22-Nov-02 - 07:52 PM
Thread Name: Bagpipes in America
Subject: RE: MusicalBS: Bagpipes in America
What I find more surprising is that the French in America don't seem to have carried on the tradition, either in Canada or in Louisiana.
Actually what I'm really after isn't reasons why the pipes never went native across the Atlantic (as Greg points out, there's really no explanation of fashions). What I was really hoping for was some indication that we've got it all wrong, and that there is in fcat some kind of continuing Americanized tradition, but that it's been overlooked for some reason.
(Of course, even if there hasn't been such a tradition, there probably will be in the future, as pipers experiment with playing other types of American music.)