I love bagpipe music

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Originally Posted by BrianR

I Loudly!

The bagpipes cannot be played softlly, so that was unnecessary to point out.

Amazing Grace on the bagpipes brings me to tears. Too many cop and firefighter funerals.

I had a bagpipe related trauma as a teenager. It has taken me many years to be able to withstand the sound of pipes without flashbacks.

My high school marching band marched in a parade in Niagara Falls, crossing from the American to the Canadian Side.

This isn't where the trauma occured. That night we went to Toronto, and stayed in a lovely hotel. Unfortunately my band was housed on the same floor as the Ontario Police Pipe and Drum.

Drunken Ontario Policemen playing bagpipes at 3am.

That experience wounds a person deeply.

I still jolt awake sometimes, thinking I'm hearing Scotland the Brave.