I don't think I'll ever truly enjoy the sound of the pipes

[Martin_Milner]

They put me in mind of a screaming snotty-nosed toddler.

[GaryKelly]

I wonder what Joseph and his mates will have to say about that!!

[Flyingcursor]

Oh Oh. Martin is spoiling for a fight this morning.

[Feadan]

“the pipes”…Uilleann?..GHB?..NSP?..all of the above???

Cheers,
David

[Cayden1]

So you were really bulshittign us when you said :

… plays his pipes beautifully. I heard him in one session out of town and later on at a lunchtime recital, and enjoyed both occasions immensely.

[jbarter]

@Peter Laban

So you were really bulshittign us when you said :

… plays his pipes beautifully. I heard him in one session out of town and later on at a lunchtime recital, and enjoyed both occasions immensely.

Maybe Martin’s been subjected to some second rate piping lately. All that’s needed is a dose of the good stuff and he’ll be cured.

[Martin_Milner]

@Peter Laban

So you were really bulshitting us when you said :

… plays his pipes beautifully. I heard him in one session out of town and later on at a lunchtime recital, and enjoyed both occasions immensely.

Yes and no. Weren’t you playing C pipes, or something lower than usual? That’s more like a snarking teenager.

[MarkB]

Ah Martin, you are just droning over the fact that you might have a little irregulators-arity in your life at the moment.

Some good Cod Liver oil will help that!

MarkB

[Wombat]

OT!!! I think this one incurs a punishment. You are hereby banished to the UP board for Lent.

[susnfx]

I spent an evening in the freezing cold in Wyoming, in a sparsely furnished room (no curtains, high ceilings, hardwood floors), listening to a young woman play GHB and loved every minute of it. My ears rang for a week. I love the sound of any kind of pipes unless played poorly–and I’ve heard some of that too.

Susan

(I have a beautiful 23-year-old daughter who was once a snotty-nosed screaming toddler and I can tell you the sound is quite different, Martin. I’ll take the pipes any day. )

[Nanohedron]

@Martin Milner

@Peter Laban

So you were really bulshitting us when you said :

… plays his pipes beautifully. I heard him in one session out of town and later on at a lunchtime recital, and enjoyed both occasions immensely.

Yes and no. Weren’t you playing C pipes, or something lower than usual? That’s more like a snarking teenager.

C sets and the sound of teenagers…I suppose this has something to do with my latest midlife crisis.

[Wormdiet]

@susnfx

I spent an evening in the freezing cold in Wyoming, in a sparsely furnished room (no curtains, high ceilings, hardwood floors), listening to a young woman play GHB and loved every minute of it. My ears rang for a week. I love the sound of any kind of pipes unless played poorly–and I’ve heard some of that too.

I’m convinced that 99% of the people who dislike bagpipes have not figured out the difference between in-tune competent playing and out-of-tune warbling with shoddy, slurred embellishments.

The other 1% are just weird.

[burnsbyrne]

@Wormdiet

@susnfx

I spent an evening in the freezing cold in Wyoming, in a sparsely furnished room (no curtains, high ceilings, hardwood floors), listening to a young woman play GHB and loved every minute of it. My ears rang for a week. I love the sound of any kind of pipes unless played poorly–and I’ve heard some of that too.

I’m convinced that 99% of the people who dislike bagpipes have not figured out the difference between in-tune competent playing and out-of-tune warbling with shoddy, slurred embellishments.

The other 1% are just weird.

Speaking of in-tune pipes, I attended a funeral in the Detroit area about two weeks ago which had a GHB player in the church and at the cemetery. In the church the piper played together with the organist and was perfectly in tune. It made an otherwise sad day a little brighter.
Mike

[izzarina]

@Martin Milner

That’s more like a snarking teenager.

shhhhh!!! MarMil!!! Don’t SAY that word!!! It’s so yesterday!

[Nanohedron]

@Martin Milner

They put me in mind of a screaming snotty-nosed toddler.

Been listening to Clancy lately, have you?

(ducking and running)

[Jeff_Stallard]

@Wormdiet

I’m convinced that 99% of the people who dislike bagpipes have not figured out the difference between in-tune competent playing and out-of-tune warbling with shoddy, slurred embellishments.

:roll:

Sorry, but that’s ridiculous. I don’t like mushrooms. Is that because I haven’t had “good” mushrooms? Someone else might say that 99% of people who LIKE bagpipes only like them because they haven’t heard what GOOD music sounds like.

[feadogin]

@Feadan

“the pipes”…Uilleann?..GHB?..NSP?..all of the above???

Cheers,
David

It better be Highland Pipes…

J.

[No_E]

Some people just don’t like the sound of the pipes. Some people don’t like the taste of whiskey, some can’t stand opera. Poor bastards.

No E

[avanutria]

@susnfx

I spent an evening in the freezing cold in Wyoming, in a sparsely furnished room (no curtains, high ceilings, hardwood floors), listening to a young woman play GHB and loved every minute of it. My ears rang for a week.

Hey Susan, I have a MP3 of one of the tune sets that young woman played; if you’d like it let me know.

[The_Weekenders]

Trollbait.

The longer I listen to irish music, the more I love the pipes. And I love the variety of playing styles within.

But still, I only whistle for this lifetime. I do want to just get good on it and I will be happy to enjoy others.

See you at the SF Tionol. I will be the guy auditing pipe classes just to listen.