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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2006-07-24 16:48
British bagpipers must wear earplugs and limit practicing to 24 minutes a day (15 minutes indoors), except in combat zones.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2282915,00.html
The rest of the population is advised to run as fast as possible away from the skirted man torturing a cat in his armpit.
And you thought the Chicago brass section was loud.
Post Edited (2006-07-24 20:21)
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Author: Bassie
Date: 2006-07-24 17:50
Bagpipes played indoors is something worth hearing... once...
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Author: Tony Beck
Date: 2006-07-24 17:58
My dad was a wonderful bagpipe player, but on the rare occasions he played in the house, I would go down to the pond and listen from a safe 1/4 mile away (and get a swim if the weather was like we are having now)!
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Author: Bradley
Date: 2006-07-24 18:08
Hahaha....
Our graduation processional at my HS is led by our Calculus teacher and his friend playing bagpipes as we march from our science building into the performing arts center......People are busy with the hustle and bustle of downtown until they all glance over and stare at them while we're marching. Good times.
Bradley
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Author: Lobo
Date: 2006-07-24 21:06
Why should they need to practice more than this? Aren't there only 2 or 3 bagpipe tunes in existance--Scotland the Brave, Amazing Grace, and I forget the other one, if it exists?
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Author: Bigno16
Date: 2006-07-24 21:20
Lobo, pretend for a moment that the only clarinet work written was the Mozart concerto. So why practice more than 24 minutes a day for us?
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Author: clarinetwife
Date: 2006-07-24 21:25
Ahh, another reason to play Irish music -- they use the small pipes. Not exactly suitable for military use, though, since you can't march with them.
Barb
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2006-07-24 21:37
What is it in its acoustic design that makes a bagpipe so much louder than an oboe?
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2006-07-24 22:14
I was once on a chartered airline flight from Frankfurt to New York (returning from a ski trip) with another, much larger ski club (from Atlanta, Georgia) sharing the Stretch DC-8 with us. They got quite inebriated on the flight, and one of their members pulled out a set of bagpipes and began playing them inside the cabin of the aircraft (he was actually quite a competent player, fortunately). Once the plane landed, he continued serenading us while we were all waiting for our luggage at Baggage Claim.
In Dave Barry's words, "I'm not making this up".
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Author: saxlite
Date: 2006-07-24 22:55
Along with David's experience- I love to run in the hills of California; one day while climbing a particularly high and difficult hill, I heard a strange but familiar noise- yes, it was a bagpipe, the piper in kilts and all.......here we were, several thousand feet above the valley floor; me, exhausted from the strenuous climb and he, blatting away nonchalanlty and effortlessly. We exchanged pleasantries for a moment, then I said "Scotland The Brave", at which he rent the air and I made my escape. I am still wondering if he was the ghost of some ancient Scottish warrior.......
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Author: Phat Cat
Date: 2006-07-25 00:03
This raises so many questions.
Dave S: Sounds like quite a traumatic experience. Is this why you can no longer hear the difference between clarinets made from different materials?
Lobo: What, you've never heard Flight of the Bumblebee played on the pipes?
Bigno16: Don't you know Mozart originally wrote K622 for bagpipe? Stadler lost most of his setup while gambling, slapped a reed on what was left, and the rest is clarinet history.
Gordon: Do you think it might have anything to do with a sympathetic resonance originating in the cavity of the player's skirt...I mean kilt? The shape of the kilt makes a huge difference in the resulting tone.
Do you suppose the players go thru endless searches for a bladder that maximizes projection?
Does a dark bagpip tone mean that it sounds like a black cat whose tail is being stepped on?
Does Backun make custom parts for the pipes?
Do bagpipe players practice short tones?
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2006-07-25 02:53
Dear Obese Feline,
To answer the first of your many good questions: No, it's because I have potatoes in my ears.
Afraid I can't help you with your other questions. We need GBK for those.
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Author: Robert Small
Date: 2006-07-25 03:47
Question: Why do bagpipers always walk when they play? Answer: to get away from the noise.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2006-07-25 03:54
Robert Small wrote:
> Question: Why do bagpipers always walk when they play? Answer:
> to get away from the noise.
Alternate answer: Because moving targets are harder to hit ![[wink]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie3.gif) ...GBK
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2006-07-25 04:32
Why do they walk nonchalantly out of time with the music?
I think the sympathetic resonance is more likely to be in the sporran than in the kilt.
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Author: Cowchick
Date: 2006-07-25 14:15
The REAL definition of perfect pitch:
When you throw an accordian into a dumpster...
And it lands on a bagpipe. :-)
Sheri
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2006-07-26 22:33
When I had a church choir years ago, one of my recorder students who was a good piper came to the church to do 'Amazing Grace' -- with pipes, organ full blast, choir and congregation it was a mighty wind.
Best,
Mary V.
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Author: 3dogmom
Date: 2006-07-27 02:28
I actually just came from our local fairgrounds, where a bagpipe band including a few of my friends was performing. One of my friends, a flute player, was describing her difficulty with the bagpipe, reporting that you play for six beats and breathe for four. She's so used to breathing and playing as we all do, that this weirdness is disconcerting. That might account for the weird marching.
Sue Tansey
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Author: BobD
Date: 2006-07-27 10:25
Actually the bagpipe originated in Eastern Europe where it was much smaller and mellower. Is it possible to play the Northern pipes quietly?
Bob Draznik
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Author: BobD
Date: 2006-07-27 10:36
If you squeeze a piper's bladder......you will discover why they wear a skirt.
Bob Draznik
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