kilted at NAMM

[OC Richard]

Went to the NAMM show yesterday morning, on my way to a 90th Birthday party piping gig.

The NAMM show is a huge music industry trade show. Instrument, instrument accessory, software, etc manufacturers have pavillions or booths and retailers check out what's new. (NAMM=National Association of Music Manufacturers, I think.)

Every year the LA Scots Pipe Band plays at a Thursday night tribute for all those in the music industry who have passed the previous year.

Anyhow here I am posing with Tony Dixon, the wonderful English maker of whistles and flutes. I'm holding Tony's newest creation, a prototype conical-bore Low D whistle, which by the way plays great.



I spotted other kilts:

-a Scottish guy working at the booth of an Italian cymbal manufacturer wearing an Italian football shirt and a kilt of the "Italian tartan"

-a guy wearing a black Utilikilt