I need more bagpipe!

[davedove]

Sounds like the Cowbell sketch from Sat Night Live.

That's just what I was thinking.

"I've got a fever, and the only prescription... is more bagpipes!"

[Streetcar]

Indeed. My 2 year old was channeling Christopher Walken. She wasn't happy until I turned the Wicked Tinkers up.

My 6 year old went on to tell me she thought I should learn the bagpipes so I could play a lullaby to her new baby brother.

That would be one hellava lullaby......!

[Oldhiker]

That's just what I was thinking.

"I've got a fever, and the only prescription... is more bagpipes!"

Kyle and gaggle... "need more pipes". His girls are very cute and cultured in the highland ways.

[EagleJCS]

Niiice. We need more kids/people like that! (We also need more pipers that know how to tune their instrument properly - bagpipes can be tuned?!? - before subjecting the public to their playing.)

Jim McGillivray (world-renowned piper) told my piping instructor recently that as he was leaving the Kentucky Scottish Weekend last month - where he had been judging the piping competitions that day - he overheard a couple of ladies leaving the venue ahead of him. (Imagine this in a broad Kentucky accent): "I like the sound of them bagpipes, but a little bagpipe shore goes a loong way."

[Spartan]

The Pipes Are Calling!

[Tartan Shortbread Jock]

Your family have a good taste in music.
Give them my kind wishes.

[M. A. C. Newsome]

While driving my daughters to school today, my girls said something that nearly brought a tear to my eye.
My 6 year old asked, "Daddy, can we hear some more of that bagpipe music?" My 2 year old followed with, "Yeah, more bagpipe!"

I'm so proud!

My daughter, soon to turn 7, routinely falls asleep at night listening to one of my Gordon Duncan CDs. Her favorite is "Just for Seamus."

[Kilted Jeeper]

that's awesome!!!! My 5 year old son walks around the house pretending to imitate me on my pratice chanter whenever he hears bagpipes playing.

[terialka]

I have 34 and hallucinate with the music of bagpipe, I have not had the pleasure to listen in live... but...

someday… someday


Terialka

[Pleater]

I can hear higher up the frequencies than most people - with a corresponding deficit in the low notes, and until the advent of electronic instrument tuners I found it best to hear bagpipes and some reed instruments from a distance as the harmonics were painful, and an 'overblown' accordion could reduce me to hysterics.

On top of a tendency for the music of the pipes to make my blood fizz and make me want to find things and do things to them - it could have been dangerous!!

Recordings of pipes - and many other instruments, tend to filter out the higher sounds anyway, so they are far easier on my ears, but as youngsters can hear a wider range of frequencies they might hear discords which are outside the adult range of hearing.

However - properly tuned pipes are really sweet sounding, and I can actually get moderately close to them and enjoy the sound.

After decades of feeling that my head was about to explode whenever I heard bagpipes 'live', it is really great.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: