Hey Snoogie. Thanks for noticing the painting, writing, and the pipering. Look for an excerpt from my travel journal/book being prepared for publication in the next Pipers Review. It'll consist of one days journal entry, a B&W of a painting inspired by the trip, and a tune I learned from Neillidh Mulligan in Ireland that I had transcribed by Kynch O'Kaine.Lewis, get out of the medical profession...your true calling is as a landscape artist and author. Not to mention a darn good piper.
You are correct in your ascertainment. Most would agree that I need psychiatric help...they just don't agree as to why...most having different firmly held opinions regarding many aspects of my behavior and personality.I have ascertained that you are definately one of the outrightly insane pipers
The story above just came to me sitting here reading thru the responses to the poll. Many of you know that I consider bridle crafting and placement as the most mysterious and least understood of all the aspects of reedmaking. I figure it will be a good while before I can reliably make good reeds work when one considers that I have some fair amount of difficulty placing bridles on great reeds made by Benedict Koehler. Of course, he takes the reed in question, wraps a piece of copper around it without fuss or apparent forethought, and presto....perfect.....until I foul it up that is.
(we might be able to arrange some follow-up treatment to cure you of your illness too!).
