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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000078.txt from 2007/11

From: Dan Duncan <danjduncan@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Bagpipes
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:57:02 -0500

I believe that there ARE things called "chamber pipes" that sound
very well inside.

A "lovely" pipe organ can sound horrible if it is voiced incorrectly
or if the pipes are played at the incorrect wind pressure. The shawm
is usually considered a 'loud' (the old term was 'high') instrument
but even that rather loud instrument can be played indoors to good
effect.

I get it that some folks don't care for bagpipes. OK, enough said.
I believe you. Now something else to discuss perhaps?

Dan

On Nov 28, 2007, at 11:36 PM, Judith and James Preston wrote:

> <Call me a tonality or aural snob if you like, but I'll take a
> lovely choir
> with organ over ciarmella and drums almost any day.>
>
> A wise man once defined a "gentleman" as a man who can play the
> bagpipes,
> and doesn't.
>
> I do enjoy the sound of bagpipes on occasion, but only outside and
> at a
> distance. They have no "indoor voice."
>
> -Jim
>
>
>
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