User talk:Qleto007

Emphasis on kaba gaida at Bagpipes?
Greetings, when you changed the lede of Bagpipes to imply the the kaba gaida has as much international visibility as the Irish and Scottish pipes, did you have any justification for that, or just a prank? MatthewVanitas (talk) 07:03, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi, it is not a prank. The sounds of the Bulgarian Kaba gaida have been recorded on the Voyager Golden Album and sent into space on the Voyeger spacecraft in 1977. Bulgarian's have used the bagpipes for thousands of years. If the article means that international visibility is only limited to the USA and west europe, than I must apologize for my correction.


 * The article is not limited to a US/Western Europe view, but I find it very, very likely that the average person in Brazil, Ghana, Uzbekistan, and Japan would be more familiar with the Scottish bagpipe, and secondarily the Irish bagpipe, than with the Bulgarian gaida or any other similar competitor. There may be individual countries where local bagpipes are better-known to locals than Scottish bagpipes, but even in countries which have a bagpipe tradition the Highland pipe is often more widely recognised just due to the decline of the local tradition and the rise of international media which often references Scottish pipes. MatthewVanitas (talk) 21:51, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Well I guess you have a point, however the President of Brazil is from Bulgarian discent, and the avarage brazilian knows alot of Bulgarian culture and the kaba gaida. as well as Japan for that matter where the bulgarian yogurt is depicted with a guy playing the kaba gaida or a woman in traditional clothing. In fact, Japan has an achive of 9 000 different Bulgarian dances which are accompanied by the Bulgarian bagpipes.

So... I guess really nobody knows about the kaba gaida except the Bulgarians, the Macedonians, the Greeks, the Serbs, the Croatians, the Bosnians, the Turks, the Albanians the Romanians, the Brazilians and the Japanese.


 * If you go to the main Bagpipe article and click through the other-language wikis, the vast, vast majority feature the Scottish Highland pipe prominently at the top, or near the top, of the page, and almost all give more focus on the GHB than most any other pipe. I understand your objections, but I still sincerely doubt that there is any comparison whatsoever, in the English-speaking world or globally, between awareness of the Scottish pipe, to a lesser degree the uilleann pipe, and then the Bulgarian gaida. MatthewVanitas (talk) 13:12, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

English-speaking world? I love the Scottish bagpipe and the Irish uilleann, but the only reason they are so famous is that they have become as much a part of American (US) culture then Scottish or Irish, and Hollywood uses them alot. There hasn't been any blockbusters featuring Bulgarian Kaba gaidas, but it is still very well known in the SLAVIC-speaking world... So I think that objectively speaking you can rank them by global popularity - 1. Scottish bagpipe, 2. Bulgarian Kaba gaida and the uilleann pipe and 3rd the rest of the bagpipes.