Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post
Very smart!

Seems that we've been doing this music for the same amount of time, pretty much: I got my first set of pipes in 1975 and joined my first Pipe Band in 1977.

I still have those first 1977 Ghillies, made by Keltic. They've always been very comfortable, but they just look too shabby now. And I have a Balmoral bonnet from the early 1980s that I still wear, a Mackie.

Here too, in Southern California, it's a bit warm for tweed! For my piping gigs I have a very comfortable and lightweight black Argyll, old ex-hire I got off Ebay. It wouldn't do to show up for a solo gig in shirtsleeves (but funny enough my avatar shows just that! It was an informal church gig).
We must be a similar vintage Richard
just come back to PB snare after a sabbatical of 30 years!
Incredibly I am training under my first great teacher Buzz Ennis who is a legendary Australian drummer and still going strong in his 80's!
We wear only vest and shirt here in Queensland in summer, it gets very humid and regularly 90 F +.
Not kilt weather!
Cheers!