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...returning (some time after a wonderfull festival in Schwaben with no less than 22 nations presenting their most different bagpipes :P ) to the Bouha: I discovered this: http://www.tununtunumba.com/busqueda/articulo.asp?id=1526&s=3854&cid=GG12ie5989´ ...another traditional bagpipe from Gas...

In Italian Restaurants here, it's called "Penne Arrabiata", with differing mixtures of the ingredients You mentioned...

I guess, it would be highly interesting for both of You to visit Mr. Robson in Heartburn/Northumberland with his extensive collection of Robertson Pastoral, UP and both of them double-chanters and complete sets. Unfortunately, this is not my speciality - I am more interested in the general evolution...

...that would make the GHB as we know it today a rather english instrument, then...

Well - as right as You are - we shouldn't forget, that the only serious difference between a french cornemuse-chanter and a borderpipe-chanter is the 2nd thumbhole, which is an invention of 20th century only... Also, there was no real difference between early GHB and all the other 2-drone-conical-ch...

...though I have to say - like many writers of british ancestory - at least in his older books, Cheape's somewhat narrowminded and focussed only on instruments and sources found in Scotland and other parts of the UK, and sometimes rather patriotic than logical... :( Haven't read this latest book, th...

It's interesting that someone from the Netherlands doesn't come up with a solution that's, err, stronger than whisky (I'd rather skip the "e" for the better taste - single malt only! :thumbsup: ) and legal in Your country. I guess, that would make Your playing either sound (subjectively) a...

That's right. And, without any irony: How many people get killed or seriously injured by dogs every year, and how many by cats? (Though I recently read about a cat that killed it's owner by sitting on his face while he was sleeping. Probably the revenge for his snoring...). Even when You only compar...

...yeah, the media are full of all those dangerous cats that bite and even kill little children - as well as of all those peacefull wolves and coyotes that would never harm any human being...

Mark Twain said: "Cats don't like humans for food, but for entertainment."

I used to have a "psychocat" as well - she was "raised" by my ex-girlfriend's sister who used to leave her alone in the flat all day and never touched her (she was tactilephobic). We were able to give the poor animal at least some love - well - in fact, she used to sit on our cus...

I guess, a dog would rather try to dominate You, if You were small enough... Cats challenge You and thus foster Your intelligence. Dogs are way too easy to undertand and thus boring. I just love to take care of my neighbours' retriever each time they go on holiday (even if it's for some weeks) - but...

...still tend to think, the problem's not on the cat's side...

Yep, sounds like. Tell Your local barber to give You a "Kojak"-hair&beardcut, that should solve the problem...