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Bagpipes for me- I have tried to understand them but as a person who has dabbled with musical instruments for years they are unfathomable. Yodeling has (did have) a practical purpose in communication and takes great voice control - I may be biased as I have Austrian blood

Yodelling.


I can listen to a pipe band longer than I can a yodeller.


However, I suspect I'd find both equally irritating if there was a learner within any vicinity of me... then again, any musical instrument can be excruciating to the ears in close proximity (i.e. the poor piano being abused in the flat below even now)

Yodelling is exceptionally more irritating than bagpipes will ever be.


Mind you if your only experience of bagpipes is an unaccompanied, out of practice and out of tune piper trying to make a quick buck at a tourist spot then I can see why you'd dislike them.


Yodelling is right up there, along with Gregorian chanting and tubular bells. A frightful dirge.

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