

Dropping my backpack I ran around a corner and was overjoyed to see a traditional group of 2 pipers, gaiteiros, a bass drummer, a small snare drummer and a man playing pandeireta, the small tambourine played virtuosically in Galicia. After asking excitedly in deeply flawed Spanish about the location of the bagpipe museum, and being met with confused looks, I suddenly heard the unmistakable sound of piping. So when I found myself in Santiago de Compostela, capital of Galicia, I assumed that this was where the museum would be located. I had recently become fascinated by the world of bagpipes and had read in Baines’ book (Bagpipes, Anthony Baines,1995, Pitt River Museum, University of Oxford) that there was a bagpipe museum in Northern Spain. My first trip to Galicia, an autonomous region in the northwestern corner of Spain, was in 1978. Lenz, Jr.Kevin Carr playing his gaita at a recent Magostos. Contents of this page may not be published elsewhere without the permission of Andrew T.

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