Iraqi bagpipers?

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2 total messages Started by JASON WILLIAM JARVIS Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:51

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Author: JASON WILLIAM JARVIS
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:51

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From JASON WILLIAM JARVIS <003166j@axe.acadiau.ca>

	Last night on CNN I saw a news clip from Baghdad where everyone was 
celebrating Clinton's inauguration or something, and one frame showed an 
Iraqi drummer and what looked like two Iraqi *bagpipers*? Am I as blind as I 
think, or is there a Middle-Eastern instrument that just looks and sounds 
like the pipes? Maybe this isn't exactly a military question, but they were 
soldiers, and I can't think of any other groups to send this too.

					Jason

P.S: Maybe they were just left over when the British left . . . ?

Re: Iraqi bagpipers?

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Author: Stephen Jacobs
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:27

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From Stephen Jacobs <saj@chinet.chi.il.us>

Ranging far away from military science, I can confirm that bagpipes are
native to just about anyplace you can think of.  Iraq and Turkey, especially.
I recently heard a concert of Italian traditional bagpipe music.  Marching
to pipe music seems Northern European, but I wouldn't bet heavily on that.

                                 Steve          saj@chinet.chi.il.us

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