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| DrPazo | Propper term for bagpipe player | 4 | Jul 5 2011, 7:55 PM EDT by charlie_catt | ||
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Thread started: Jun 14 2011, 5:21 AM EDT
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I've been playing the bagpipes for over 25 years and now play in "professional" grade and serve as an adjudicatorin GHB competitions. I speak 12 languages and play about 14 different kinds of bagpipes. My comment is that I was "perplexed" when I traveled to Buenos Aires, Santiago, Bogotá, and hear bagpipers calling themselves "gaiteros" instead of the propper Spanish tern "Gaitista". We do not call someone who play the violin a "violinero" or someone who plays the guitar "Guitarrero". I am a graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid and have sudied at the College of Piping in Glasgow.
Can someone please enlighten me in this usage of the word "gaitero"? Even in Spain we do not use that term. Thank you and kindest regards to all. Dr. Raphael Pazo Lodi, California U.S.A. www.californiabagpiper.com |
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