The Bagpipes of Latvia

I got "The Bagpipes of Latvia" recently as a gift and I sat down and listened to it one afternoon. If you expect to hear a loud, bombastic, skirl indicative of the highland pipes emitting from your CD player, then prepare for disappointment. What you will hear is a buzzy and and somewhat reedy instrument. The pipes are called a "duda" or ""dudu" and are quite crude in design and sound, but still produce the fine music you hear on the album. Most of the tracks are dance tunes, many of them have signing. An interesting listen if you enjoy unusual music.