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

[Cayden]

So you were really sh*t 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]

So you were really sh*t 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]

So you were really sh*t 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]

So you were really sh*t 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]

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]

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]

That's more like a snarking teenager.

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

[Nanohedron]

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

Been listening to Clancy lately, have you?

(ducking and running)