Hi Kevin. How’s the weather in Portland? 
I wanted to send you some CDs, but lost your address.
Yeah, well, right man, there are many facets to this, uh, you know, many interested parties.
Yeah, I know them all.
Are you employed, sir?
You don’t go out and make a living dressed like that in the middle of a weekday.
Dude, you really love that movie, don’t you? 
With my limber lifestyle, I don’t value one day over the next, so I would never adhere to an exact Shabbos rule anyway, Dude.
We agree then!
- And I’m not ducking! In the first place I was just trying to point out that it is not uncommon. And it isn’t very common to play a solo or whatever while singing. On any instrument. Ornamentation would normally go between verses or such. Or something… Faulkners song were just an example how it could be done.
Pointless discussion - but entertaining…
Morten
Take a look at this:
I’ve put two popular old photos of a XIX century galician bagpipers. The first piper has a Gaita de Barquín, similar to lowland or scottish border pipes. To inflate the bag we don’t need to blow with the mouth (have a bellow) and the gaiteiro (piper) can sings while plays the melody on the chanter or simply accompanied with the drones, like the tradicional zanfoneiros (galician hurdy-gurdy players) do, singing melodies or telling old histories. One must note that this is a very old pipe style, almost lost today. Although this summer I’ve playing in a session at the Ortigueira Interceltic Festival (Féile Domhanda Ceilteach Idirnáisiúnta) http://www.festivaldeortigueira.com/english.php?lang=ing with many southern galician pipers who sang phrases of the dance tune while played the melody on the chanter. Of course, only can be sung simple dance songs like slow alalas (airs), muiñeiras (jigs), mazurcas, waltz, at the cost of digitation technical losses.
But in festas and romarías (galician trad parties) or repichocas (sessions) a moment arrives in which the fingering, singing or not, becomes non important, you know what I mean? 
well since this post came back up I must say, Joseph the clips not bad sounding at all. 
yes, let me emphasise: this topic is not premised on playing solo tracts while singing but on playing supporting notes etc with some ornamentations and then some riffs during the lulls in singing. I think I expressed this better earlier on. I do this with harmonium.
I am still cogitating a Bb chanter for songs in D Phrygian and C and G nat minor …
Any non nasty comments?
… ummmmm, so…uh… how’s the weather in your half of the hemsphere?
I must say I am surprised to see this thread again.
I must say I have forgotten the cut and thrust of this topic.
But I did wake up this muggy summer morning thinking again about D Phrygian accompaniment on a pipe instrument while singing.
Am I seriously ill. do you think? 
Naw, just a little left of center.
Personally, I am open to all ideas musically and would be interested in giving a listen to what you come up with… and I am mentally ill. 
I hope you are not clinically depressive. Bhairavi (Phrygian) is especially melancholic. Very very so …
Yup, and throw in a little ADD for good measure.
Mmmm raga bhairav…makes me think of chickpeas…
I had the odd fortune of knowing a Galician piper in college. He was an exchange student from Santiago de Compostela and had a very nice gaita made from boxwood. Got to play it once…easiest damn thing I’ve ever played. Lovely. According to him, highly skilled gaiteiros can play for about a minute or so without blowing into the bag…Judging from my brief encounter with the instrument, this does seem within the realm of possibility…although you’d be better off getting a bellows-blown instrument for that kinda thing.
I’ve never been too big into singing and playing an instrument at the same time. I’m not Roger f**kin’ Whittaker, after all…
No not “bhairav”. I was talking of “bhairavi”.
They are different.
For instance,
the scale for D Bhairav =
D Eb F# G A Bb C# D+
(Thats the Middle Eastern Hejaz)
whereas the scale for D Bhairavi (Phrygian) =
D Eb F G A Bb C D+
Whether I am singing or f**kin I don’t need to be anyone else but me.
See?
Ah, but can you … um … never mind. 
djm
I just don’t get why this has to be such an emotionally charged subject… children, please, don’t force me to send you bed without your suppers. :roll: