bagpipes
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- rafalski
for 5 hours, behind my window. bands marching, blowing, being judged and stuff. Bagpipes are lovely. For up to half an hour.
My windows are shut, but I can hear it all the time, piercing my brain and while music is down I hear stuff like "all bands prepare to assemble for the Great Finale!".Yeah, Great Finale, I can't wait!
- bolus0
you should be glad you're still alive, get away while you can!
- Jaline0
I love the mechanics behind the instrument itself.
But I wouldn't be able to take hours of the sound.
- rafalski0
They've finished now. To be honest, it was pretty powerful. It's local communities having fun competing, which is great stuff. One might want to say at least it keeps them off the street, but actually all the bands marched along Harbour Road in the end..
- AndyRoss0
If you don't like bagpipes, why do you live in Scotland?
- rafalski0
I don't! :)
I saw a Romanian accordion player today, his bag packed, waiting for the bus back to the city long befere he'd normally leave the harbour.
That was a clash of two most dreadful instruments on Earth. This time the bagpipers won, but I'm afraid he'll be back next weekend with an army of accordionists!
- AndyRoss0
Bagpipes and accordions?
Fuck! Sounds like war, if you ask me. Rent a piledriver, and drown the bastards out!
Not Scotland, huh? Sounds like a bad dream then. Wherever it is you live, it's all wrong, and you've got to get the hell out of there. If only for my sake!
lol
- Jaline0
You should do a little jig outside near the parade and tape it.
- foreign0
fuckin' hate bagpipes.
bagpipes and soprano saxophones.
- foreign0
at least it keeps them off the street
rafalski
(Jun 24 07, 08:31)haha.
people who play the bagpipes aren't really the kind you need to keep of your streets.
- emecks0
at least it keeps them off the street
rafalski
(Jun 24 07, 08:31)haha.
people who play the bagpipes aren't really the kind you need to keep of your streets.foreign
(Jun 24 07, 21:22)they fucking ARE the kind you want off the streets, noisy bastarts.
- blaw0
i lost my appreciation for bagpipes when a piper played the postlude at an indoor wedding.
bagpipes indoors!? i think they may have been trying to kill off the elder generation to earn an early inheritance.
- kelpie0
horrible, nasty sound. On a pentatonic scale too, which means that like the harmonica, you can't really play a bum note. This of course leads to any crusty idiot who can learn to blow into a stick deciding its his calling and busking heedorum-hoderum, hurdy gurdy aural cancer all over the country.
erses.
- paraselene0
you don't hear them very often down here. there's one bloke on waterloo bridge all the time, but he's the only one i see regularly.
i think they sound great. skt once took me to a rad warehouse party in wapping where a mate of his played them along with a house dj and it was superb.
- madirish0
i truly love the sound of a bagged pipe.
much like fireworks and fountains- they are a superfoulus luxury to the senses that just make me feel good.
- Jaline0
fuckin' hate bagpipes.
bagpipes and soprano saxophones.foreign
(Jun 24 07, 21:20)heh, I almost played the soprano saxophone just for a change once, but (there's a long story as to why I couldn't play it eventually) I stuck with my alto sax instead.
They're all okay in moderation.
- pascii0
fartpipes...
- skt0
i think they sound great. skt once took me to a rad warehouse party in wapping where a mate of his played them along with a house dj and it was superb.
paraselene
(Jun 25 07, 03:08)good times... was just a house party by the way... but yeah, mr deans plays a good tune every now and again.