Amazing Grace Bagpipes [UPDATED] Free Download Mp3

Have you ever wondered if the local bagpiper that played at the Irish festival in your town was any good? Ever suspected that the rendition of Amazing Grace on the bagpipes that you heard was not actually how the instrument is supposed to sound? Well, you are not alone. As a professional bagpiper, I frequently hear horror stories from audiences. In fact, on many occasions people have come up to me to tell me that they used to hate bagpipes because they thought they were an ugly instrument until hearing me play.

Why is Amazing Grace a great bagpipe song to judge a bagpiper? First, most people know what Amazing Grace should sound like. And unlike other common bagpipe tunes like Scotland the Brave or Highland Cathedral, most people have heard Amazing Grace on a different instrument. Second, Amazing Grace is slow and less technical which allows the listener to focus on the sounds coming from the bagpipes. Third, the high note that dominates Amazing Grace is very sensitive to poor tuning of the drones, unsteady pressure, and bad finger posture.

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Now to test your newfound bagpipe judgement, here is a good example of Amazing Grace on the bagpipes followed by a bad example. See if you can tell the difference! For more examples of what a bagpipe should sound like check out our YouTube channel or this digital album. Enjoy!

The general impact of Olney Hymns was immediate and it became a widely popular tool for evangelicals in Britain for many years. Scholars appreciated Cowper's poetry somewhat more than Newton's plaintive and plain language, expressing his forceful personality. The most prevalent themes in the verses written by Newton in Olney Hymns are faith in salvation, wonder at God's grace, his love for Jesus, and his cheerful exclamations of the joy he found in his faith.[26] As a reflection of Newton's connection to his parishioners, he wrote many of the hymns in first person, admitting his own experience with sin. Bruce Hindmarsh in Sing Them Over Again To Me: Hymns and Hymnbooks in America considers "Amazing Grace" an excellent example of Newton's testimonial style afforded by the use of this perspective.[27] Several of Newton's hymns were recognised as great work ("Amazing Grace" was not among them), while others seem to have been included to fill in when Cowper was unable to write.[28] Jonathan Aitken calls Newton, specifically referring to "Amazing Grace", an "unashamedly middlebrow lyricist writing for a lowbrow congregation", noting that only twenty-one of the nearly 150 words used in all six verses have more than one syllable.[29]

The New Testament served as the basis for many of the lyrics of "Amazing Grace". The first verse, for example, can be traced to the story of the Prodigal Son. In the Gospel of Luke the father says, "For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost, and is found". The story of Jesus healing a blind man who tells the Pharisees that he can now see is told in the Gospel of John. Newton used the words "I was blind but now I see" and declared "Oh to grace how great a debtor!" in his letters and diary entries as early as 1752.[37] The effect of the lyrical arrangement, according to Bruce Hindmarsh, allows an instant release of energy in the exclamation "Amazing grace!", to be followed by a qualifying reply in "how sweet the sound". In An Annotated Anthology of Hymns, Newton's use of an exclamation at the beginning of his verse is called "crude but effective" in an overall composition that "suggest(s) a forceful, if simple, statement of faith".[36] Grace is recalled three times in the following verse, culminating in Newton's most personal story of his conversion, underscoring the use of his personal testimony with his parishioners.[27]

"Amazing Grace", with the words written by Newton and joined with "New Britain", the melody most currently associated with it, appeared for the first time in Walker's shape note tunebook Southern Harmony in 1847.[48] It was, according to author Steve Turner, a "marriage made in heaven ... The music behind 'amazing' had a sense of awe to it. The music behind 'grace' sounded graceful. There was a rise at the point of confession, as though the author was stepping out into the open and making a bold declaration, but a corresponding fall when admitting his blindness."[49] Walker's collection was enormously popular, selling about 600,000 copies all over the US when the total population was just over 20 million. Another shape note tunebook named The Sacred Harp (1844) by Georgia residents Benjamin Franklin White and Elisha J. King became widely influential and continues to be used.[50]

In 1972, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, the senior Scottish regiment of the British Army, recorded an instrumental version featuring a bagpipe soloist accompanied by a pipe band. The tempo of their arrangement was slowed to allow for the bagpipes, but it was based on Collins's: it began with a bagpipe solo introduction similar to her lone voice, then it was accompanied by the band of bagpipes and horns, whereas in her version she is backed up by a chorus. It became an international hit, spending five weeks at number-one in the UK Singles Chart,[79] topping the RPM national singles chart in Canada for three weeks,[80] and also peaking at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.[81][82] It is also a controversial instrumental, as it combined pipes with a military band. The Pipe Major of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards was summoned to Edinburgh Castle and chastised for demeaning the bagpipes.[83]

In recent years, the words of the hymn have been changed in some religious publications to downplay a sense of imposed self-loathing by its singers. The second line, "That saved a wretch like me!" has been rewritten as "That saved and strengthened me", "save a soul like me", or "that saved and set me free".[91] Kathleen Norris in her book Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith characterises this transformation of the original words as "wretched English" making the line that replaces the original "laughably bland".[92] Part of the reason for this change has been the altered interpretations of what wretchedness and grace means. Newton's Calvinistic view of redemption and divine grace formed his perspective that he considered himself a sinner so vile that he was unable to change his life or be redeemed without God's help. Yet his lyrical subtlety, in Steve Turner's opinion, leaves the hymn's meaning open to a variety of Christian and non-Christian interpretations.[93] "Wretch" also represents a period in Newton's life when he saw himself outcast and miserable, as he was when he was enslaved in Sierra Leone; his own arrogance was matched by how far he had fallen in his life.[94]

The transformative power of the song was investigated by journalist Bill Moyers in a documentary released in 1990. Moyers was inspired to focus on the song's power after watching a performance at Lincoln Center, where the audience consisted of Christians and non-Christians, and he noticed that it had an equal impact on everybody in attendance, unifying them.[22] James Basker also acknowledged this force when he explained why he chose "Amazing Grace" to represent a collection of anti-slavery poetry: "there is a transformative power that is applicable ... : the transformation of sin and sorrow into grace, of suffering into beauty, of alienation into empathy and connection, of the unspeakable into imaginative literature."[97]

The Dictionary of American Hymnology claims it is included in more than a thousand published hymnals, and recommends its use for "occasions of worship when we need to confess with joy that we are saved by God's grace alone; as a hymn of response to forgiveness of sin or as an assurance of pardon; as a confession of faith or after the sermon".[4]

Years ago Hewlett Packard would crank up their sound system and play Amazing Grace the moment the show closed. Somewhere along the way, this got switched to real bagpipes and, once HP no longer had a booth at DAC, Forte Design Systems took over arranging for the bagpiper to close the show. Cadence acquired Forte and has kept the tradition going, and even the name "The Forte Bagpipes".

By the way, if you want to see the most impressive display of bagpipes, go to the San Francisco Caledonian Society Highland Games, which are in Pleasanton the Saturday and Sunday of every Labor Day weekend. All the bands in competition play at the end of the day, so you have about 600 bagpipers playing Amazing Grace (the tune that the Forte Bagpipers play to close the show).

US astronaut Kjell Lindgren plays a rendition of Amazing Grace on the International Space Station on Saturday. The video is a tribute to a former colleague, research scientist Victor Hurst, who passed away last month. The bagpipes are reportedly made out of plastic, making them lighter and easier to clean be457b7860