[sionnsar]

If I don’t listen to my voices in my head they will sing stupid annoying songs to get my attention like Duke of Earl. But they don’t like Sousa marches which is kinda a problem because Sousa marches don’t have any words usually.

Do like me and memorize bagpipe tunes.

Not the common tunes everybody knows including "Amazing Grace," "Dark Island" and all that. I mean the slightly more esoteric (that means the "in stuff -- we know this and you don't" for pipers) "little-music" such as "Itchy Fingers" or "The Clumsy Lover" or "The Gravel Walk" or even "Farewell to Nigg" which, if I remember aright, is the only pipe tune to commemorate an oil rig! (It's in my collection somewhere.)

If you're really ambitious, go for the Piobaireachd such as "The Desperate Battle (of The Birds)" or, if you're really into sinister material try "Lasan Phadruig Caogach" (look it up) which is in English "A Flame of Wrath For Squinting Peter" -- a melody that can take up to 40 minutes or more to play through will be less irritatingly repeated.

Of course, it helps if you can finger along to the tune in your head. Which means you need to learn to play the bagpipe.

It keeps the voices down. Trust us.

You just have to like "Farewell to Nigg."

[ThomasThomas]

The Coast Guard has some pipers up your way.

http://www.bagpiper.com/info/n-46/Coast-Guard-Pipers.html

I found it while trying to remember the song Scotland the brave. Helix High School Highlander was in the same area I lived when I was in High School. Their band played it a lot. I think it was the only one they played.

[Robert A Cook PE]

You mean there is more than one bagpipe song?

(Robt is confused ....)