Posted on 06/05/2025 6:17:11 AM PDT by fruser1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0JMCaKwOUY
One of my favorite McAuslan stories by George MacDonald Fraser is “Johnnie Cope in the Morning”. Lots of other good stuff about piping in those stories, too.
To the ducking stool.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducking_stool
“Second only to finger nails on a chalk board, bagpipes have to be the worst sound in the world.....”
With a bit of Reverb Bagpipes sound hauntingly melancholy...
I used to live next to a private school athletic field sometimes in the spring and summer, around sunset, a piper and a snare drummer would go out there and rehearse their colonial repertoire. It was absolutely marvelous.
Like I said, bagpipes are an acquired taste.
I really like bagpipe music, but as you say, it’s better for a bit of distance. When I was a kid there was a piper who lived about half a mile away through the woods and you could hear him clearly as he practiced in the evenings. Don’t know what his immediate neighbors thought of it.
Awww, c’mon. That is like dropping napalm in your back yard to get rid of skeeters.
As to the Karen, people need to start defending themselves. If someone strikes you, pop them. Treat them like the bullies they are, and we all know that bullies only stop when confronted. Even limp-wristed liberals admit that.
Rudimentary bagpipes were invented in the Middle East, maybe 3000 years ago but certainly by the hundreds BC. That was before the tidy distinct musical notes we’re used to. Middle Eastern music is still somewhat jarring to the Western ear.
Heavy Metal bagpipe?!? How about “Crazy Train” by a “babe” piper:
https://youtu.be/n2yFNWQRiU0?si=GhImneHxaaLCloJd
Eeewww. Power-tripper.
That park is in my part of Houston. It’s pretty nice. That woman needs to stay away from there.
Love it!
What tyrants? They’ve been a sign the British are coming to rock someone’s sht since 1707.
Two nuts were walking in the park, one was a salted.
That said I am usually tolerant of buskers or folks getting some practice in.
Not bagpipe related but Long John Baldry has a tale about being brought before the magistrate for a busking session cut short by the cops.
Long John Baldry - "Don't Try To Lay No Boogie-Woogie On The King of Rock & Roll"
I have been checking out some Flaco Jiménez and Tejano music . I have to wonder what her tolerance level of accordion is?
You can hear the sound they produce over artillery fire, that’s why the Scots love them. Pisses off the English.
Maybe Trump should revise his Alcatrez plans to include a free bagpipe practice area.
I want them played at my funeral - Scotland the Brave, Loch Lomond, and Amazing Grace.
"More 'Flower of Scotland'!"
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