Roll Call: Pipes and Drums of The Free Republic

self | 4/06/2003 | self

[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.

[Prov3456]

What in the world is an Irish Bodhran??? I'd like to see it at the post office next Saturday.

[bluesagewoman]

(Irish Bodhran)

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

[Eala]

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...

[Jhoffa_]

I heard the LOTR bunch all wear skirts.

Does that help?

[Eala]

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...

[glasseye]

I've got a chanter....does that count?....*grin

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

[Eala]

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. *\;-)

[Jhoffa_]

Okay.. I think theirs are just plain old skirts though.

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

[Eala]

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

[GopherIt]

For cryin' out loud, if you throw in kazoos you'll have one hell of a band!

[tubebender]

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...

[Eala]

Ugh. Did you really have to post that??!

[Eala]

For cryin' out loud, if you throw in kazoos you'll have one hell of a band!

How many???

[Gumption]

Oh the humanity!

[DJ MacWoW]

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.

[pbear8]

Captain PBear is a piper for many years. His pipe master was the lead piper at the Kennedy funeral.

[Jhoffa_]

I think the big one on the left is Cmsgop..

[GopherIt]

Angelwood, see #33. I consider this a challenge to the DC Chapter.

[redangus]

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.

[DJ MacWoW]

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!)