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If you actually want to hear an Asturian Piper...




The gentleman playing, Jose Remis Ovalle, was the brother of my maternal grandfather's fourth wife, so I guess I'm slightly related to him, if only by marriage. I heard him play in my living room when he came to the USA for a series of concerts when I was about 12 years old (He stayed with us for a few days). He even dressed up for us in his full clan livery. He died in 1987, recognized as "El Mayor gaitero de Asturias", "the greatest piper in Asturias". He still has many followers and admirers in Spain. The video in the second youtube is the only known video of Senor Remis, although innumerable recodings of his artistry survive.

And I bet you didn't even know Spaniards had the pipes. Actually, they are still played wherever the ancient Celts once reigned, Spain, France, the Low Countries, and the British Isles.

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