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Roll Call: Pipes and Drums of The Free Republic
self | 4/06/2003 | self

Posted on 04/06/2003 12:53:02 PM PDT by Clint Williams

Reading A_Conservative_in_Cambridge's question about FReeper musicians (noting how the Left likes to turn out with their silly little drums), in his excellent report on the Rally in Harvard Square (that's right!), I got to wondering how many pipers and Scottish drummers there are among Freepers (I know of one locally). This would be an excellent opportunity to put down the Left even further, by turning out for rallies.


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KEYWORDS: bagpipes; bands; drums; michaeldobbs; pipers
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To: bluesagewoman
What in the world is an Irish Bodhran??? I'd like to see it at the post office next Saturday.
21 posted on 04/06/2003 5:11:53 PM PDT by Prov3456
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To: Prov3456
(Irish Bodhran)

The one shown at this site is more rustic looking than DogRobber's drum.

22 posted on 04/06/2003 5:18:57 PM PDT by bluesagewoman
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To: Per-Ling
I've been known to blow a mean tuba...

LOL. Me too, before I took up the pipes. OTOH, I once saw a bagpipe band marching with a tuba (and I do mean tuba, not sousaphone)! You're in...

23 posted on 04/06/2003 5:38:25 PM PDT by Eala
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To: Clint Williams
I heard the LOTR bunch all wear skirts.

Does that help?

24 posted on 04/06/2003 5:41:32 PM PDT by Jhoffa_ (Frodo sleeps with men...)
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To: cyborg; Preech1; bluesagewoman; deathscythex; Per-Ling; strela; turbojugend; M0sby
Okay, so far we have:

four pipes (WA, VA, FL & Iraq)
one bugle or drum
one bodhran drum
one snare drum / guitar
one mean tuba
one djembe drum
one 1st clarinet
spoons on Heine bottles / zydeco

This is shaping up to be one interesting band...

25 posted on 04/06/2003 5:48:38 PM PDT by Eala
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To: Clint Williams
I've got a chanter....does that count?....*grin

(My niece plays the highland pipes with the Los Angeles county sheriffs pipe band)

26 posted on 04/06/2003 5:50:55 PM PDT by glasseye
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To: Jhoffa_
I heard the LOTR bunch all wear skirts. Does that help?

Nay, laddie. There's a wee bit o' diffairence 'tween a kilt an' a skirt. Call a skirt a kilt ye'll juist look stupit, call a kilt a skirt an ye'll get yersel' kilt. *\;-)

27 posted on 04/06/2003 5:51:58 PM PDT by Eala
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To: Eala
Okay.. I think theirs are just plain old skirts though.

"Lord Of The Rings" Fan Club Meet, San Francisco Chapter..

28 posted on 04/06/2003 6:04:52 PM PDT by Jhoffa_ (Frodo sleeps with men...)
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To: glasseye; Clint Williams
Sure does. That makes it:

four pipes + chanter (CA, WA, VA, FL & Iraq)
one bugle or drum
one bodhran drum
one snare drum / guitar
one mean tuba
one djembe drum
one 1st clarinet
spoons on Heine bottles / zydeco

29 posted on 04/06/2003 6:06:33 PM PDT by Eala
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To: Eala
For cryin' out loud, if you throw in kazoos you'll have one hell of a band!
30 posted on 04/06/2003 6:07:54 PM PDT by GopherIt
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To: Jhoffa_
I think I saw these guys on a street in SF when I was nearly lost and the low gas lite had been on for 55 miles...
31 posted on 04/06/2003 6:12:30 PM PDT by tubebender (?)
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To: Jhoffa_
Ugh. Did you really have to post that??!
32 posted on 04/06/2003 6:21:46 PM PDT by Eala (no, they're not kilts...)
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To: GopherIt
For cryin' out loud, if you throw in kazoos you'll have one hell of a band!

How many???

33 posted on 04/06/2003 6:22:44 PM PDT by Eala
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To: Jhoffa_
Oh the humanity!
34 posted on 04/06/2003 6:24:33 PM PDT by Gumption
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To: Jhoffa_
These guys really don't look like "the Ladies from Hell" in the original meaning of the term. LOL!!! For those who don't know anything about Scots, in battle they were refered to as the Ladies from Hell.
35 posted on 04/06/2003 6:48:02 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW
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To: Clint Williams
Captain PBear is a piper for many years. His pipe master was the lead piper at the Kennedy funeral.
36 posted on 04/06/2003 6:50:59 PM PDT by pbear8 ( sed libera nos a malo)
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To: Eala; cmsgop
I think the big one on the left is Cmsgop..
37 posted on 04/06/2003 7:05:11 PM PDT by Jhoffa_ (Frodo sleeps with men...)
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To: Eala; Angelwood
Angelwood, see #33. I consider this a challenge to the DC Chapter.
38 posted on 04/06/2003 7:20:27 PM PDT by GopherIt
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To: DJ MacWoW
Actually it was the pipes themselves that were known as the "Ladies From Hell". The Germans during WWI were the first to use this term during a battle when the Scots came out of the trenches behind a piper and turned the tide. As the Germans said they "sounded like Ladies from Hell".

As a Scotsman by heritage I proudly own and wear a kilt, and own a wonderful collection of bagpipe CDs, plus a great video "The Ladies From Hell" which tells the history of the Highlanders and Pipes in battle down through the ages.

39 posted on 04/06/2003 7:51:21 PM PDT by redangus
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To: redangus
and own a wonderful collection of bagpipe CDs,

Unfortunately, all of my bagpipe music is on vinyl and I haven't a record player at the moment. *sigh* However, I do have Highland Cradle Song and the Skye Boat song downloaded on my PC.

As a Scotsman by heritage

I haven't proven my line of Hutchinsons is a sept of MacDonald of Sleat yet but I hope to. Doesn't matter though as I've loved Scottish history since I discovered the Stuarts at the age of 14 while eating history books from the library. (guess I was a weird kid!)

40 posted on 04/06/2003 8:07:50 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW
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