Customer Reviews

Bagpipe Funeral Music

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

I repeat, do NOT buy this CD! The recording is not an actual person playing a bagpipe. It is an electronic recreation, probably played in a computer. Amazon's rating system forced me to give it at least one star--If I could've I would've given it negative 5!

I have been piping for over 20 years, and I've never heard such crap! I have no financial stake in having you not buy this cd, I just want you to have an authentic bagpipe. I've contacted Amazon to tell them it's a bogus product, and to have it removed from their inventory, but they do not respond. Buy something by Alasdair Gillies, Willie McCallum, Roddy MacLeod, Jack Lee, Bill Livingstone, Michael Grey, Bruce Gandy, or John Cairns instead.

I've only listened to the Amazon.com-provided samples. Holy crap! The sound is so awful; I could barely get through even the short samples (and I'm not even a piper [...yet.] How on earth does this CD get so many rave reviews? I can only guess that the 5-star reviews are shill reviews.

As for the "performances," the individual bagpipe notes seem to be authentic sample recordings, much akin to piano notes sampled for keys on a digital piano. Simply feed/play the proper notes and you'll have an authentic-sounding bagpipe, right? WRONG! Since the bagpipe chanter is monophonic, mimicking bagpipes in this manner does not work the same as a digital piano.

These reproductions are just too artificial-sounding.

Just going by the song samples of this crappily electronically recreated sound of bagpipes crap, I implore you to not buy this. Listen to other recordings of the real thing. Try the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band, for instance. That'll bring your blood up instead of making you cringe. Beware of this guys other stuff too, I'm thinkin'.

This recording of Funeral Tunes is absolutely the worst I have ever listened to! I am so sorry I purchased it. Since I love the bagpipes, I can honestly tell you I would hate the bagpipes if this is what I had to judge them on! It HURTS my ears!

The tunes on this CD are not being paid on a bagpipe, but on some sort of synthesizer. I didn't even recognize some of the tunes they are so poorly "played."

Well - it did not sound much like a bagpipe at all. The instrument actually sounded kind of electronic. The tunes are not very accurate eather. Maybe it did not download very well or something.

After 20 years of Piping I still love cds like this. I found it positively haunting and moving!

I can't believe anyone would want to buy this rubbish

I can see it moving anyone with any knowledge of the pipes to tears.

Bagpipe funeral music is not as opressive as the the title suggests. In fact I was hoping for something a little more mournful, a bit more stirring - something like the lone piper on top of Vimy Ridge would play. But at least it didn't contain Amazing Grace among it's tracks!!!

Purchased this CD looking for funeral music to play during military funerals for the Patriot Guard Riders. Music was satisfactory altho the selections are rather short, however, the duration doesn't make a difference to me since they are recorded on an MP3 player that I use on the motorcycle and can be played over and over.