what type of pipes are these vid clip

[Whistling Archer]

pipes start at 17.00 minutes in. what are these called?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txipz9T34RY

thanks
Steve

[rorybbellows]

I dont know what the pipes are called , but how is he keeping the drone going. Is some kind of circular breathing ?

RORY

[ChristianRo]

Launeddas. Probably the oldest form of "bagpipes". Still popular in Sardinia. Google Luigi Lai for instance.

[Whistling Archer]

thanks close up vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tIUYQQcEmo

[Whistling Archer]

ok last vid post on this,, I just find it interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MgFmoEpBwY

[daveboling]

I dont know what the pipes are called , but how is he keeping the drone going. Is some kind of circular breathing ?

RORY

Yes, he is circular breathing. Look at his throat. It looks like he's getting a mild case of Diz throat.

[Ted]

The double pipes like the launeddas are survivors of double pipes also played in ancient Greece and Rome as the aulos. The launeddas has an added drone. The Roman aulos survived by the addition of a bag and later drones were added. This is the zampogna. The drone was considered a later addition to the launeddas, until a statue was discovered from 1500BC with a player with 3 pipes in his mouth. There are pictures of launeddas with two drones, but that is not used today.

[CHasR]

ok, now go do that with 3 whistles

[uillmann]

thanks close up vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tIUYQQcEmo

That was wonderful. Thanks! I laughed and cried.

[chaos97]

ok, now go do that with 3 whistles

Here's a vid of Cathal McConnell (Boys of the Lough) basically doing something like it on whistles. I would guess that adding a third as a drone wouldn't be too difficult.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvRT1Ab_g8w

[rorybbellows]

I would guess that adding a third as a drone wouldn't be too difficult.

The circular breathing technique seems a difficult thing to learn and I think it would be next to impossible with a whistle.
Heres how its done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-LMiZHWdbU

RORY

[Calum]

It's not difficult in itself - couple of minutes, a straw, and a glass of water and you're done - but the difficulty comes in making it sufficiently steady and then adding playing an instrument as well. Pat your tummy and rub your head stuff. But given Uilleann pipers already manage a bag, bellows, chanter and regulators independently, it shouldn't be that much of a stretch!

[rorybbellows]

It's not difficult in itself - couple of minutes, a straw, and a glass of water and you're done -

I dont play any mouth blown instruments so I dont know, but can you as a flautist play a continuous note on the flute using circular breathing ?

RORY

[uillmann]

imagine your cranium as the mainstock, and the reeds coupled to your ears!

[daveboling]

It's not difficult in itself - couple of minutes, a straw, and a glass of water and you're done -

I dont play any mouth blown instruments so I dont know, but can you as a flautist play a continuous note on the flute using circular breathing ?

RORY

The large volume of air required to play a flute makes it one of the hardest to use circular breathing, but I have seen flutists do it on several occasions.