Originally Posted by
unixken
Looks like they're hugging the whole sheep, to me.
Yes they pretty much are!
Bulgarian and Macedonian pipes use nearly a whole sheepskin (everything except the back legs).
The chanter is tied into the neck, the blowpipe and drone are tied into the fore-legs.
Interestingly, Scottish pipers call the part of the bag that the chanter is tied into the "neck" (though in fact it isn't, Highland pipe bags being cut to shape from a flat sheepskin).
Bulgarian bags have the hair left on (cut very short) and are turned inside-out, so that the entire inside of the bag is hairy.
Last edited by OC Richard; 31st December 15 at 06:19 PM.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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