I love bagpipe music

richlevy • Dec 16, 2009 10:32 pm

Ok, I'm not ashamed to say that I love bagpipe music.

From the most popular..
Amazing Grace
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to the more obscure
The Rowan Tree
[YOUTUBE]Kd3zwj7oDOc[/YOUTUBE]

Highland Cathedral is a bit more modern
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busterb • Dec 16, 2009 10:58 pm

TNXS

limey • Dec 17, 2009 4:51 am

richlevy;618187 wrote:
Ok, I'm not ashamed to say that I love bagpipe music.

From the most popular..
...to the more obscure
The Rowan Tree
[YOUTUBE]Kd3zwj7oDOc[/YOUTUBE]

...

[scottish resident]Ahem. Rowan Tree is not obscure ...
Rich - when are you going to come visiting?[/scottish resident]

skysidhe • Dec 17, 2009 7:38 am

I'll go to Scotland after I pass through Italy, France and Ireland.

dar512 • Dec 17, 2009 9:32 am

limey, do you know about North Sea Gas? (Not bagpipes, but Scottish)

I've got a couple of their early cds. I like them quite a bit.

Flint • Dec 17, 2009 10:18 am

If you're ever in North Texas, try to make the North Texas Irish Festival (March 5th-7th, Fair Park, Dallas) or the Texas Scottish Festival & Highland Games (June 4th-6th, Maverick Stadium, Arlington). I'll be the guy wearing the donegal beard and the utilikilt.

limey • Dec 17, 2009 2:16 pm

Flint;618341 wrote:
Here's some bagpipes: http://cellar.org/showpost.php?p=428285&postcount=27

That's fab, Flint! I took part in a bagpipe, didgeridoo, penny whistle and concertina thang but it wasn't as funky as that!

Sperlock • Dec 17, 2009 10:47 pm

Then you get stuff like this that I discovered while in Scotland last year.

BrianR • Dec 27, 2009 11:20 am

I can play the bagpipes. My neighbors once banded together to insist that I STOP playing. I was drunk and played Auld Lang Syne at midnight one New Year's Eve. Loudly!

wolf • Dec 27, 2009 12:42 pm

BrianR;620823 wrote:
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.