Learn The Bagpipe-You’ll Always Have a Job at Funerals
There are somethings that will always be a mystery to me, the Bagpipes are one them. I used to take portraits of Shriners, and a number of them played the Bagpipe and they said that this was a difficult instrument and that they often had a hard time getting new people to take the bagpipe up. Well, duh.
First off, it is an odd sounding thing and it does tend to make the cheeks puff out in a most unflattering manner. And everyone will always want you to play Amazing Grace. But then, you could play whatever you liked.
I saw a bagpiper in Edinburgh a few years back, he was dressed in the kilts and the whole nine yards. He was busking on the High Street and we gave him a couple of pounds as I recall. Bloody cold that day, but then, it was in Edinburgh. The great thing about those bagpipes is that you could hear them all over the middle of town-the bagpipes are Loud.
To me the bagpipes are not so much an acquired taste as they are best taken in small doses. I like a lot of music with bagpipes, and I will not be taking them up, but for me a little goes a long ways. But someone needs to learn to play the bagpipes, maybe you. I’d never heard of a beginner bagpipe, but hey, you have to start somehwere, right?
Smaller and quieter than a full-sized bagpipe. Authentic high-quality sound, an excellent way to learn and practice. Reed self-contained in fingering pipe. Nylon bag with soft velour bag cover and brass drones. From Scotland.
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November 20, 2009
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Well, if I only get to read one bagpipe post this week, I’m glad it was yours. I didn’t quite make it all the way through the whole 9 minutes, but I listened to enough to get the drift. Honest.
Well, maybe 9 minutes was a tad much.
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