Forum: Beer Tent
12-25-2020, 05:46 PM
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Replies: 49
Views: 3,674
Re: Tunes you absolutely HATE!
I could go another 100 or so years without hearing Pikeman's March again. And I don't need another crappy rendition of Pumpkin's Fancy either, thank you.
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Forum: Beer Tent
11-13-2020, 03:04 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,241
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Forum: Beer Tent
10-14-2020, 09:27 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 1,682
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Forum: Beer Tent
09-16-2020, 03:19 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 815
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Forum: Beer Tent
09-11-2020, 08:45 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 2,244
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Forum: Beer Tent
09-05-2020, 06:01 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 784
Re: Retired Pipes
People have kindly donated pipes to the Lyon College Pipe Band, and we use them as loaner sets for college students who have substandard pipes when they get here and can't afford to immediately buy a...
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Forum: Beer Tent
08-25-2020, 07:11 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 993
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Forum: Piobaireachd
08-20-2020, 03:21 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 2,363
Re: Your first piobaireachd and who taught you it
The first Piobaireachd lesson I ever got was with Bob Worrall at a workshop, and it was Munro's Salute. The first tune I committed to memory was The MacIntosh's Banner, and I was taught that by...
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Forum: Beer Tent
05-13-2020, 01:12 PM
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Replies: 70
Views: 7,804
Re: Worst Advice Ever?
Knowing what I know now, I would never have played a Canmore bag. Leather is much better under my arm. And I wouldn't have used that first, "water trap," which was a piece of copper staple pushed...
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Forum: Beer Tent
04-27-2020, 05:39 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 858
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Forum: Beer Tent
04-24-2020, 10:13 AM
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Replies: 52
Views: 6,294
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Forum: Beer Tent
01-15-2020, 03:39 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,284
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Forum: Beer Tent
01-07-2020, 11:16 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 1,974
Re: Wedding dilemma
It's the bride's day. Ask her.
Some options might be: Pay someone else to pipe, and be the father. You to play out front as guests arrive, then walk her down the aisle as you play a...
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Forum: Beer Tent
12-20-2019, 10:01 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,214
Re: Pipe Tunes for the Season
In the Bleak Midwinter works very well on the pipe. As does, Good King Wenceslaus, O' Come All ye Faithful, I Saw Three Ships, and a slew of others. I seem to recall that I had Angels We Have Heard...
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Forum: Music
12-18-2019, 02:20 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 3,075
Re: Lament at funerals
Barry,
I more often get asked to pipe at funerals, and memorials for men. I don't know that I've ever played a military, police, or fire dept. funeral for a woman. I did have a female EMT one...
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Forum: Music
12-12-2019, 02:05 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 3,075
Re: Lament at funerals
In Arkansas we get requests for Amazing Grace more than any other tune. Usually either for the memorial service, or at the end of the graveside service. Sometimes both. I often play Suo Gan and...
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Forum: Competing Pipers
09-09-2019, 08:57 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,577
Re: Solo Competition Breakdown
I agree with Jim. Going off the tune is not a Breakdown. Even if it was a big mistake, as long as you kept playing, and finished that should not have ben a BD.
Last time I competed was about a...
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Forum: Beer Tent
08-21-2019, 11:11 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 4,496
Re: Worlds - filling and test their bags
I think the reason the testing of the bags was more noticeable on Friday was that there was a guy with a microphone right there at the line. He was doing a little bit of talking between bands, and I...
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Forum: Beer Tent
08-13-2019, 10:07 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 5,594
Re: Head shakers
I was tuning up for competition over in Tulsa one morning some years ago, and was just playing a scale, and a tuning phrase. I was listening to the chanter, and the drones. I stopped, and a woman...
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Forum: Beer Tent
08-13-2019, 10:04 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,594
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Forum: Beginners, Intermediate, +
05-31-2019, 01:35 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,897
Re: Pipe chanter reeds
There is NO benefit. If anything, you'll probably explode your head trying. It's probably not possible on several levels.
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Forum: Beer Tent
04-04-2019, 11:02 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,232
Re: Quick question
Respectfully and graciously decline to play The Star Spangled Banner on the Great Highland Bagpipe. Suggest some other patriotic tunes if they insist on having GHB.
Do not believe anyone who...
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Forum: Beer Tent
02-14-2019, 10:27 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 3,111
Re: Your own funeral
I definitely want piper friends, and pipes at my memorial service.
I want to be cremated, but I still want a casket at the memorial. And in it, I want somebody to put an MP3 player of some sort,...
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Forum: Beer Tent
01-25-2019, 01:24 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 3,210
Re: Sharpness War
I don't think chanter pitch creeping up is about the drones at all. I think it's about clarity. Especially in a band setting.
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Forum: Beer Tent
10-31-2018, 08:46 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,546
Re: Bruce Gandy's Piob. at the Glenfiddich
I also thought Bruce's tune was splendid. But he made reference to an error elsewhere, and I'm guessing that's what took him out. At that level one little hiccup can do the trick. GREAT contest...
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