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Old 03-23-2019, 02:56 PM   #61
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Better that than the bagpipes...
Nothing is better than the bagpipes!
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Old 03-23-2019, 03:22 PM   #62
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Nothing is better than the bagpipes!
Agreed - but then so is the sound of someone slaughtering geese.
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Old 03-23-2019, 03:59 PM   #63
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Agreed - but then so is the sound of someone slaughtering geese.
Not unless you can get the geese to screech the tonic note.
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Old 03-26-2019, 07:33 PM   #64
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Agreed - but then so is the sound of someone slaughtering geese.
You just need the right venue. Pipes work fine for drill, or similar things and they can sound well in a Celtic ballad as long as they are not to loud.
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Old 04-14-2019, 07:53 AM   #65
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Oh, great...So now dwarves yodel?
Traditional Swiss yodeling is slower and a capella, unlike the uptempo Bavarian or cowboy pop-yodeling that might be more familiar. Still doesn't sound terribly dwarf-ish, although the principle of communicating by echoes off mountain sides (or between cavern chambers) certainly is.

The Alphorn is definitely a dwarf thing, though.
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Old 04-15-2019, 04:53 PM   #66
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Traditional Swiss yodeling is slower and a capella, unlike the uptempo Bavarian or cowboy pop-yodeling that might be more familiar. Still doesn't sound terribly dwarf-ish, although the principle of communicating by echoes off mountain sides (or between cavern chambers) certainly is.

The Alphorn is definitely a dwarf thing, though.
Now that I think of it, I could imagine a Dwarf named Achtdorf.
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