I need warp speed Mr. Scott!

[OC Richard]

A side note to the scene where Scott plays Amazing Grace on the pipes in the movie:

I read an article several years ago about the composer of the film soundtrack which stated that he was dead-set against using bagpipes in his music track.

The director insisted, but to show his displeasure the composer intentionally made the pipes sound as bad as possible, according to that article.

Note that when the orchestra comes in playing its lovely rendition of Amazing Grace it's in a key which clashes with the key the pipes are playing it in. As the pipes fade out and the orchestra fades in there's a moment of horrid dissonance. A composer of his savvy could only have done this on purpose. It would have been child's play to have the orchestra play Amazing Grace in E flat, match the piper's timing, and have a seamless blended transition. (I've played Amazing Grace with orchestras many times and it's easy to do it right.)

Another thing, he used a poor "take" of the piping. The piper used was quite good and it's inexcusable for the movie to use the "take" they did. I wasn't there but I know the piper and it's very unlikely that the "take" heard in the movie was the best "take" they got in the studio that day. I've done a lot of studio work myself and it's common for them to record things you don't want them to record, like when you're tuning up the pipes, etc. Perhaps something like that happened.