As musical interests go – Northumbrian Piping is unsurprisingly fairly geographically limited …\u00a0 to Northumberland.There are a fair number of pipers out there around the world and there a couple of annual gatherings in the US as well as a week long course in Germany.<\/p>\n
25th-30th\u00a0 April<\/strong> – the Blankenheim Bordunale<\/a> is a fantastic event – French pipes, hurdy gurdy, song, dance as well as Northumbrian pipes. I met up with Ruprecht Niepold<\/a> last year- he plays the cornemuse, a Baroque relative of the Northumbrian pipes. The plan is to play some duets together since we’re the instruments are both effectively in ‘old pitch’.<\/p>\n I always look forward to travelling there, the mix of languages is great and the people are a joy to be with. I also get to relearn the mazurka…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As musical interests go – Northumbrian Piping is unsurprisingly fairly geographically limited …\u00a0 to Northumberland.There are a fair number of pipers out there around the world and there a couple of annual gatherings in the US as well as a week long course in Germany. 25th-30th\u00a0 April – the Blankenheim Bordunale is a fantastic eventRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,7],"tags":[22,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milecastle27.co.uk\/rob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}