Music | Ancient instruments
The soundscape of Seachd is littered with ancient and seldome heard sounds of ancient Gaelic instruments including the Triplepipes which are a predecessor of the bagpipes and whilst having been played in Sardinia since the Bronze Age, they were an important instrument in Medieval Scotland; the Carnyx which was a Celtic battle horn (c. 300 BC to 200 AD), a kind of bronze trumpet held vertically high into the air and used to incite troops to battle; the Sackbut which was a brass instrument from the Renaissance and Baroque Eras, and is an ancestor of the modern trombone; the wire-strung Clàrsach (Gaelic harp) which was until the end of the Middle Ages the most popular musical instrument of both Scotland and Ireland - and also the more widely heard sound of the Bodhrán, an Irish goatskin drum, and the haunting sound of the hammered Dulcimer, an ancient instrument which took hold across the world and was invented in Iran some 2,000 years ago. You can hear sample of these and other ancient Scottish instruments one the Kilmartin Sessions CD.
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The soundscape of Seachd is littered with ancient and seldome heard sounds of ancient Gaelic instruments including the Triplepipes which are a predecessor of the bagpipes and whilst having been played in Sardinia since the Bronze Age, they were an important instrument in Medieval Scotland; the Carnyx which was a Celtic battle horn (c. 300 BC to 200 AD), a kind of bronze trumpet held vertically high into the air and used to incite troops to battle; the Sackbut which was a brass instrument from the Renaissance and Baroque Eras, and is an ancestor of the modern trombone; the wire-strung Clàrsach (Gaelic harp) which was until the end of the Middle Ages the most popular musical instrument of both Scotland and Ireland - and also the more widely heard sound of the Bodhrán, an Irish goatskin drum, and the haunting sound of the hammered Dulcimer, an ancient instrument which took hold across the world and was invented in Iran some 2,000 years ago. You can hear sample of these and other ancient Scottish instruments one the Kilmartin Sessions CD.
More about Seachd's Gaelic vocalists...