Oh, dear. Yes. I mean, no. You don't want Scottish jobbies on your leg.Peter Duggan wrote:No, you don't want jobbies! (Said the Scot...)Nanohedron wrote:You know, one of these jobbies, split in half
Apron/Popping Strap Traditional Material?
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Or your chanter. Even if it's traditional for a working man's working man using what he naturally had on hand!Nanohedron wrote:Oh, dear. Yes. I mean, no. You don't want Scottish jobbies on your leg.
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My linguistic horizons thus broadened, I feel ever so much more a citizen of the world, now...
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You know, I was coming around to that. Seems that my blue jeans did a perfectly fine job sealing the chanter end. I had a popping strap and used it, but not every time.PJ wrote:Don't know about the seal. Chamois tends to be porous.
There was someone - David Power, was it? - who had a particularly large popping strap that draped down, and I was told by someone else that enhancing sound reflection was exactly the reason for it.PJ wrote:Apart from the seal, leather helps reflect the sound, which I doubt chamois does.
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Or you could just wear leather trousers, no issues then.
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Ooh. Chaps.
Lends a certain je ne sais quoi to a piper's getup, to be sure.
Lends a certain je ne sais quoi to a piper's getup, to be sure.
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Andy Conroy would apparently roll up his trouser leg and place the chanter on his thigh!!
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Not in polite company, one would hope.PJ wrote:Andy Conroy would apparently roll up his trouser leg and place the chanter on his thigh!!
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Would that be Mr. Jim Smith, once a lumberjack up your way, and now a farmer in Indiana? He is my piping inspiration and sometime advisor when I am back in Indiana. He and his wife say no matter how many times he has "lost" that glove, it always finds its way back to him!Nanohedron wrote:I seem to recall a fellow who used the top side of an old, beat-up work glove, fingers and all. You know, one of these jobbies, split in half:
He was a working man's working man, so it was perfect not so much because of the association, but that he'd used what he naturally had on hand. I thought that had to be about the coolest and fiercest popping strap ever on the whole darned planet.
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It's been years, so I don't remember the name now, but I know we're talking about the very same guy: a compact, wiry, tough-as-nails fellow who was friendly, yet quietly commanded respect without even trying. You could tell he'd seen a thing or two. He was on a visit from his farm in Indiana along with his daughter (I don't remember what she played, but I recall she was no slouch, herself), and I heard the tale of the mysterious, ever-returning popping glove. He played a half set when I saw him, and that seemed to suit him just fine, thank you very much. A great guy, and I liked his playing a lot.Ken_C wrote:Would that be Mr. Jim Smith, once a lumberjack up your way, and now a farmer in Indiana? He is my piping inspiration and sometime advisor when I am back in Indiana. He and his wife say no matter how many times he has "lost" that glove, it always finds its way back to him!
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Yeah, that’s Jim Smith. Terrific guy. He was in town not so long ago, sessoning (with his fiddler wife, Kate) at Merlin’s. He had the same logging-mitten popping strap!
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yep, you're over thinking this one but O'Farrell says...
such as these...
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=sc ... r&_sacat=0
'White leather' refers to aldehyde-tanned leather (chrome-free). The gentlemen pipers of the protestant clergy may have used the pale skins of altar boys for all I know but I suspect common pipers used whatever was to hand and probably just the breeches. There are a million pieces of scrap upholstery leather available on Ebay for pennies in any colour you would like....the chanter must there rest on the knee, and for that purpose it would be requisite to provide a small piece of white leather to place on the knee, under the chanter as nothing else will stop the wind so well.
such as these...
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=sc ... r&_sacat=0
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Perfect!Nanohedron wrote:Ooh. Chaps.
Lends a certain je ne sais quoi to a piper's getup, to be sure.
I wonder if the Village People need a piper?
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I loved their piping instruction video on triplets: "Why A-C-A?"Aldwyn wrote:Nanohedron wrote:Ooh. Chaps.
Perfect!
I wonder if the Village People need a piper?
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Ha! Nice!
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