The nice thing about Scottish bagpipes.

Subject: The nice thing about Scottish bagpipes.
From: The Shambles
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 07:49 AM

They sound very good when they are played on a Scottish hillside - and you are a long way away.

Subject: RE: The nice thing about Scottish bagpipes.
From: A Wandering Minstrel
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 08:07 AM

As the Earl of Bothwell was heard to remark:

"Aye the pipes, gey skirlin' on the moorland, but nae use at a' in a bedroom"

Subject: RE: The nice thing about Scottish bagpipes.
From: Fiona
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 08:11 AM

Um.... he'd probably never heard the Peatbog Faeries, excellent bedroom music IMO!

Fiona

Subject: RE: The nice thing about Scottish bagpipes.
From: Leadfingers
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 09:20 AM

As an ex Pipe Band member (Sergeant Piper RAF Cosford BE Band) I take
esception to impolite comments about the Pipes ! But I still wouldnt book a piper into ANY indoor folk club !!

Subject: RE: The nice thing about Scottish bagpipes.
From: Fiona
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 09:29 AM

Leadfingers,

I would have agreed with you at one time but having seen the Peatbogs indoors a couple of times I'd disagree now. I've seen them at the DeMontford Hall & the Komedia in Brighton (more or less a cellar) and they sounded great.

Fiona

Subject: RE: The nice thing about Scottish bagpipes.
From: fiddler
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 02:12 PM

Well can we call tehm Highland pipes!

I have set I want to get rid of - I can't manage the lung power!

And yes they are marvelous when heard from a hillside at a distance the skirl of the pipes indoors is too too much!

thinking about it hence the small pipes!

I think pipes would get a beter press if folk heard them in teh correct setting.

Andy

And if you know anyone interested in a set of Indian made pipes but upgraded to a goretex bag with syntetic reeds pm me pleas please please.

Subject: RE: The nice thing about Scottish bagpipes.
From: Leadfingers
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 02:28 PM

The only problem with Scottish Pipes indoors is VOLUME ! The pipes were intended for OUTDOOR use , particularly in BATTLE . Pipes in a band mean that all the other instruments HAVE to be amplified , simply for sound balance . The result in any thing but a large hall is DEAFENING !!!!
The last time I let myself be inveigled into an indoor event was Tannahill Weavers in a building with a quite low ceiling ! The music was very well played , but it was impossible to have any kind of a conversation , even in the seperate bar it was too loud .
And dont forget , I am an ex piper ! Earls Court is OK for Pipe bands , but its a bit big for a Folk Club !

Subject: RE: The nice thing about Scottish bagpipes.
From: Fiona
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 03:16 PM

I do understand what you mean Leadfingers (and I'm remembering you're a piper too)and yes, the Peatbog Faeries are loud and amplified, and the lad (can't remember his name) plays Highland pipes, but it sounds wonderful.

I wouldn't say you could have had a conversation over the top of them, but that wasn't the intention. They do dance music really, they're from Skye and they have pipes (Highland) & whistles, fiddles, guitar, bass, keyboards & drums.

I don't dance All night long anymore, but I'm happy enough listening to them too. And I'm a grown woman, no some wee lassie! They're not to everyones taste, but they're good lads and I enjoy their music.

The pipes are at their finest outside, I won't disagree with you there but you don't need to be battling for them to raise your spirits do you?

Subject: RE: The nice thing about Scottish bagpipes.
From: Megan L
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 03:38 PM

Aye i mind on a night in a wee hotel bar barely 15ft square in Nairn piper and entire rugby team, dont remember if they were celebrating or drowning thier sorrows, probably wouldn't have been able to tell the difference anyway. It took days for my ears to work properly again ah but it were a grand night >

Subject: RE: The nice thing about Scottish bagpipes.
From: kendall
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 04:26 PM

I love the highland pipes. There is more to music than what you hear; it's also what you feel, and when a good highland piper plays the Dark Island it makes me homesick.

Subject: RE: The nice thing about Scottish bagpipes.
From: Jim McLean
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 06:10 PM

I have played the pipes all over the world, outside in the hills and sitting down in a bus which is very difficult. 'There's meat and music here', as the fox said when it ran away with the bagpipes!

Subject: RE: The nice thing about Scottish bagpipes.
From: GUEST,hroth
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 07:53 PM

The same people that gave us golf and called it a game gave us the bagpipes and called it music.

Draw yer own conclusions.

(Any coincidence they also gave us whuskey?)

Subject: RE: The nice thing about Scottish bagpipes.
From: Leadfingers
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 08:53 PM

But the Irish gave the Scots the pipes and added the third drone as a joke - The Scots still havent seen the joke !!

Subject: RE: The nice thing about Scottish bagpipes.
From: LadyJean
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 09:58 PM

Every October, my church has Scottish Reformation Sunday, with a bagpipe band playing at the service. It isn't too loud. I could wish the band would tune up before they played. Indeed I have put it into the basket as a prayer request. But they aren't too loud.
Now, one year the man in the pew behind me was leaning up against one side, not concsious, and I went and alerted security, because I was fairly sure he wasn't asleep.
No I don't know what was the matter with him.

The really great thing about highland pipes is that they are frequently played by attractive men in kilts! Hubba hubba!

Subject: RE: The nice thing about Scottish bagpipes.
From: Boab
Date: 23 Apr 05 - 03:10 AM

Och, Lady Jean! Ah wear the kilt, cannae play the pipes, ---but I'm a grand whustler--?!!?

Subject: RE: The nice thing about Scottish bagpipes.
From: Mr Red
Date: 23 Apr 05 - 05:09 AM

what do you call a Scottish Bagpipe Band (in a small bedroom)?

anything you want - THEY CAN'T HEAR YOU.





PS notice how I avoided the blow and job jokes..........