LOL! Shame on you! For some strange reason, I love bagpipe music. I don't understand why people don't like it.
On a serious note, these instruments are how the musicians earn their living. A bang, a dent, can ruin a guitar as much as it can a concert violin. We need to get smart about airline travel and start PROFILING. Leave grandma and Yo Yo Ma alone.
I love pipe music too...and pipe jokes.
And I quite agree re the musicians - I play, and I'd never check an instrument.
Musical instruments are not the only ones at risk. Sometimes I travel with carefully calibrated electronic instruments. Having those bashed in the baggage hold would negate the purpose of the trip, even if the instruments weren't permanently damaged and could be re-calibrated once I got home again.
P.S. I meant I play guitar-family instruments. I don't play bagpipes - my hands are too small.
I like bagpipe music as well but I think they should have a bagpipe convention for the good of the genre and all agree NOT to play "Amazing Grace" for the common good.
Must be something about that tune that is REALLY easy to play on the pipes. Sort of like STHeaven on the guitar. (tip of hat to Wayne's World the Movie)
Good bagpipe music is like good Mariachis -- hard to find but worth the search.
Right Sionnsar?