at Glentress and it's awesome! Kinda made our holiday!
And I thought a bloke with a guitar was hellish.
Swap his drones for frozen sausages.
Stuff frozen chipolata sausages up his drones…
Enough of the suggestions already!
In a similar vein, we were driving back south through Lanarkshire a few weeks ago, and found ourselves stuck in stationary traffic on the way out of Biggar. The reason being that the road had been blocked temporarily to allow the local parade to take place, marching northwards through the town to some event or other. An entire drum and pipe band struck up right outside the car; they were well-practiced, very tuneful and the sound was impressive to say the least, and it certainly raised the goosebumps on my arms. The dog, I suspect, was somewhat less enthusiastic 🙂
We once went to a campsite in Wales where some young lads across the way had brought a trombone. They could only play it very badly, but they played it at length. It was quite funny as they were so bad, it was quite a long way away, seemed pretty harmless fun and it wasn't too loud for us.
Bloke on the next pitch to them didn't like it though and told them to stop.
The lads got pissed and started playing it again at 1am. Woke up to the sound of the trombone, then the sound of the bloke next door smashing it up and telling the lads he'd shove it up their arses.
Cool story bro
Two of ours played in a marching band, mainly brass but occasionally pipes. They were very good as a band, did some of the fancy marching stuff too.
Highlight for me was a parade in St Andrews with multiple military pipe and brass musicians after a music camp. 170+ of them playing everything from Flower of Scotland, through Wallace and Grommit theme, to Happy by Pharel Williams for over 30 mins.
But a campsite and pipes is pretty antisocial IMO.
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Why has somebody laid a patio on a campsite in the middle of the night?
telling the lads he’d shove it up their arses.
Second only to the swanny whistle in terms of appropriate musical instruments to threaten to shove up someones arse
If they insist on playing at a campsite ,I'd rather it was this bevy of beauties
Drown him out using your Boxxers as a flute
Or as a club.
We were in Ireland a couple of weeks ago and a girl was sat outside a motorhome playing a harp.
Have to say I quite like the sound of the pipes, especially the "modernised" stuff like the clips above.
Eldest (flautist) played in an orchestra at the Fringe last year and we were half expecting him to come home with a set of bagpipes, he likes a challenge.
Eldest (flautist) played in an orchestra at the Fringe last year and we were half expecting him to come home with a set of bagpipes, he likes a challenge.
Lapsed flautist and piper here.
Pipes aren't hard once you get your head round them.
However, there are pipes and there are PSOs. There isn't really a yamaha equivalent in the pipe world.
There's some folks who cannot comprehend the concept of the difference between "their home" and "public places" and act at the latter as if they in the former. Those people are the sorts of folks who bring bagpipes to camp-sites.
OP says it was awesome. STW massive roundly naysay it without much information.
“Bagpipes” is all the information needed.
dyna-ti that’d need bombers instead.
OP says it was awesome. STW massive roundly naysay it without much information
Pretty much what you would expect.
I am glad its been a treat OP played well and with enough space ie outside. Pipes a perfectly lovely. If your version of piping is based on what you hear busking on he streets of Edinburgh every august... You haven't even heard mediocre playing.
OP says it was awesome. STW massive roundly naysay it without much information.
Bagpipes are never acceptable. Thats all the information thats needed.
At least being on the edge of the forest there are plenty of places to drag their body along with offending bagpipes to find a shallow grave.
Bagpipes = a grown up version of the recorder and penny whistle.
So... Perfectly acceptable legitimate musica instruments?
The mother****er.
Bagpipes = a grown up version of the recorder and penny whistle.
Thank you for just proving that you know phük all about traditional music, and the instruments used to play it.
I love pipes of all types, Highland pipes, Northumbrian Smallpipes, Uilleann Pipes, flutes and whistles used in traditional music, particularly the more upbeat tunes, which are proper dance music, but also more melancholy tunes.
I envy musicians who can take a simple aluminium tube with a mouthpiece and some holes and make sounds that either have you bouncing up and down, or making the room go dusty.
Northumbrian Smallpipes on ‘Later…’
Looks like someone was playing bagpipes near Loch Ness, to the distress of a couple of tourists who mistook it for the Loch Ness monster.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/ghosthunters-new-loch-ness-monster-33330176
I envy musicians who can take a simple aluminium tube with a mouthpiece and some holes and make sounds that either have you bouncing up and down, or making the room go dusty.
LittleMissMC got back late last night from a four day/four country tour with music centre. Cracking video of a group of British teenagers playing a wind band version of YMCA in a square in Maastricht with a crowd of all ages dancing away in the background.
Neither I nor MrsMC have any musical ability snd suspect both kids were somehow swapped at birth.
Years ago I was on a dusty road near Nijmegen with a mixed military contingent at dawn. One of the boys started up the pipes. It suddenly went silent and everyone present understood the power of the pipes. Especially as later that day we crossed the bridge that was too far.
Years ago I was on a dusty road near Nijmegen with a mixed military contingent at dawn. One of the boys started up the pipes. It suddenly went silent and everyone present understood the power of the pipes. Especially as later that day we crossed the bridge that was too far.
When the pipes and drums start, you know it's time to fix spicy sticks and get to watering the grass.
One of the “joys” of living in an Aberdeenshire village is that there is always some kid trying to learn the bagpipes. So, anytime the weather is decent their parents kick them out of the house and you will be serenaded by the sound of a strangled cat. I quite like it actually and it can sound awesome on a summer evening once they’ve got decent.
So clearly a geezer and not a gentleman*
(Widely attributed quote, possibly Wilde, I'm surprised not to have seen on the thread re the definition of a gentleman as "someone who knows how to play the bagpipes and doesn't".)