[sionnsar]

"like Paisley's Santa parade"

Need anything more be said?

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[kingu]

What a crock. Yes, they're loud, and it makes sense to have training pipes, but please - does a kid with a drum get treated the same way? Just as load (and sometimes louder.)

[Khurkris]

BASTIDS!

[Welsh Rabbit]

There used to be a guy who practiced the pipes deep in some woods where I would walk my dog sometimes. Good thing for his neighbors, he was awful. The pipes can be beautiful; but in the hands of an amateur, they're an instrument of torture.

[metmom]

...the same council to encourage kids to take up the traditional instrument.

People should be careful what they wish for, they just might get it.

[SoDak]

The guy across the street from me has a set of bagpipes and plays them in his backyard from time to time in the summer. He's pretty good, so no one's complained or shot at him yet.

[Mordacious]

Schoolboy facing ban on bagpipes

Yeah, like that'll work. Everyone knows that you can't stop a schoolboy from playing with his bagpipes.

[Redleg Duke]

There is a new invention here in the "Colonies". It is call the hearing protector. Let those intolerant jerks buy some and put them on.

I suppose I could express my surprise that the cheeks of their butts didn't suppress the music sufficiently, but that would be politically incorrect and intolerant. :-)