There was a female piper doing it too! Thank God for sports bras!
> Chris said "I've just had a horrible recollection of some
> Eastern European pipers I came across at the Sackpfiefen in Schwaben
> festival. These pipers obtained vibrato not from their fingers but by
> jiggling their whole bodies up and down! Now, who does that remind you
> of.......? "
>
> That sounds like Szokolay Balasz - an amazing piper, and what a vibrato
> technique. There's a younger guy I met in Budapest last year, Bese Botond,
> who although he isn't into the body-vibrato thing is a very fine player
> too. He has a way of playing close-fingered on an open chanter, popping
> off of A, B and C# to 'accompany himself'. Sounds mindblowing... I'm
> trying to emulate him on the Scottish smallpipes, but it's going to take
> some thinking.
>
> Don
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