Official word from my HR dept...

[Jock Scot]

Wife wrote: “There is nothing ‘wrong’ with the other 32%. Most of my friends are not fans. We are normal women that just don't care for it.”

Now that’s a bucket of cold water!
But then my wife isn’t too keen on things Scottish either.
She calls my bagpipe CDs squashed cats . . .
Ciao,
Mike

Pipes when played near to one do sound like squashed cats!

However, a pipe band and more particularly a solo piper from afar---200yards or more-----is a wonderful sound and still after too many decades, stir the blood.

[artificer]

Pipes when played near to one do sound like squashed cats!

However, a pipe band and more particularly a solo piper from afar---200yards or more-----is a wonderful sound and still after too many decades, stir the blood.

The Great Highland Bagpipes- the only instrument designed to sound better when you're not around them.

JK_ Although they can be a bit shrill when close to.

Mike- It took my wife seeing me wear the kilt a few times before she warmed up to it. She would still rather I wear a suit when dressing things up, but I'm slowly wearing her down there as well I don't think ANYTHING will sway her to liking a full mask sporran though.

[Kornkob]

The Great Highland Bagpipes- the only instrument designed to sound better when you're not around them.

Reminds me of a time 15 years ago.

I was sitting on my back porch about sundown having a little drink and reading a book when I heard bagpipes and I thought to myself: Someone must be watching Breaveheart or some such.

Then 20 minutes later the pipes were still going.

I set down my book and my glass and started walking towards the sound.

Some 3/4 of a mile later I came to a park shelter and within the shelter was a piper practicing. I sat at a sane distance listening to him play till he stopped to rest or get a fresh cat--- whatever it is the pipers do between songs-- and then engaged him in a conversation for a time.

He apparently moves from park to park to practice so as not to annoy the neighbors too long in any one place.

But I still remember how clear it sounded on my porch with the piper 3/4 of a mile away, on the other side of a neighborhood and a small wooded area in a shelter and it makes me smile.