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[ Thread revival ] Push :) Hi there. Two years ago, we already talk about sorbish Bagpipes. 1. Are there any Mechawka Makers and/or Mechawka Pipers in the Sorb community ? Meanwhile I ordered a "Mechawka" (actually a Mulitanky) from Juraj Dufek ( http://www.bagpipes.sk/historical-bagpipes...

Hi there! I looking forward to go to Paisley for the next summer term (Januar - June). :D :D :D It would be great if I could find some contacts to pipers there and maybe I could learn this 5 Month to play GHB ^^. (I am playing a Sorbian Bagpipe and a German Pipe (I think there is no special name for...

Hallo!
Today I want to invite you to the 6. International Bagpipe Festival in Schleife at 18. - 20. June 2010.
The Homepage is: http://www.dudelsackfestival-lausitz.de/, unfortunatly only in german. You can also get Information at bergbau@sorben.com. The final programm is not known yet.

I asked our oldes bagpipe played, who was one of the founders of our ensemble 30 years ago, and he had never heared of MechawKa before, too
I will ask my bagpipe teacher in the next week. I think he will know more about that.

Im not sure if you know it, but the plant reed is in german Schilf or Schilfrohr. It looks like a tube. And reeds are made of reeds, so its a thin sheet of Schilfrohr.
In our english lesson it was called "false friend".

Sorry, I really twisted Mechawa and Mechawka in my hole answer. Actually I never heard of Mechaw k a until now. I will ask about this Bagpipe today too. Balingen: Nicht dass ich wüßte. Wann ist da was? Because of Fingering: Yes, we play it open and afaik our polnish guest or when we were in Poland, ...

1. I also only know Karl Tillich, who makes the pipes for our ensemble. 2. I think there is, but I havnt seen it until know. I know one of our pipers played the Mechawa last year on an "sorb wedding". It was no real wedding, but reacted by the socalled "Sorbischer Hochzeitszug", ...

Hi there ;) ! I just readed, that somebody is talking about me. I think the following link may be interessting for you: http://www.sorbisches-folkloreensemble-schleife.de/ You mentioned somethink like this in your first thread above. Until now i never dealed with Bagpipe English and the last time i ...