Before that, Archy taught herself to play it with an e-book and Youtube tutorials, and a guide in the US. The obsession began in 2012 when she saw a bagpipe artist play with the Swiss metal band Eluveitie. And I want to mention here that a bagpipe is not like the flute." She explains the complex process of blowing air into the bag which can then be used to regulate the flow and the sound. "India has a bagpipe culture but the Scottish instrument was different. I couldn’t find a teacher in India and I began sending random emails to people who played the bagpipe. A lot of them, who are my friends now, thought I was an Indian girl trying to get a visa. Finally one person - Sean Folsom - responded and he guided me on what to do. I first practised with a chanter that my brother bought me, learning from an e-book. I knew how to read music." She didn’t just know to read music, she was the vocalist of a metal band called RogueSaints. "So yes I used to scream a lot," she laughs.Īs a young girl Archy learnt to sing classical - at first Carnatic, then Hindustani, and when teenage came, she drifted to pop and rock. Because of her dad’s job in the air force the family had moved pretty often through Bengaluru, Delhi etc. But then her singer mom made sure Archy started her music lessons early. The singing has been on hold ever since she took the bagpipe. But for now, her focus is on that bagpipe, for which she even gave up her full time highly paid job at an MNC. "I began playing two to three hours every day." She put online the cover of the song that first attracted her to the instrument - Inis Mona by Eluveitie. Her cover of AC/DC’s Thunderstruck - called Dubstruck - got a lot of attention. Then came, of course that Lamb of God medley covering Walk with me in hell, Again we rise, Laid to rest, Broken hands, Hourglass and Descending. There have been a lot of frustrating times through all this. When she finally spent a lot of her savings to buy a bagpipe, no sound would come out of it. ![]() ![]() She figured it out finally from online bagpipe communities.
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