Piping in the Park

Piping Potential · 11-30-2018, 04:55 PM

This isn't a joke but something that recently happened. I went to a local park to play and when I arrived it was FILLED with people. May have just been coincidence, but after about 15 minutes the place was pretty much completely empty.

Garry · 12-07-2018, 11:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Piping Potential

This isn't a joke but something that recently happened. I went to a local park to play and when I arrived it was FILLED with people. May have just been coincidence, but after about 15 minutes the place was pretty much completely empty.

Maybe they all rushed off to get their own pipes and drums to get you into a massed bands situation?

el gaitero · 12-08-2018, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Piping Potential

This isn't a joke but something that recently happened. I went to a local park to play and when I arrived it was FILLED with people. May have just been coincidence, but after about 15 minutes the place was pretty much completely empty.

Maybe a flash un-mob..?

Pip01 · 12-23-2018, 10:59 AM

On the other hand... if the squirrels and birds
begin to gather 'round... then perhaps you have
hit upon something!! :)

John Blunt · 01-10-2019, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Pip01

On the other hand... if the squirrels and birds
begin to gather 'round... then perhaps you have
hit upon something!!

All I know is that when I begin my piobaireachd in the churchyard I use for practice, the pigeons line up on the roof ridgeline facing me and settle in wing-to-wing. I always get the mental picture of a group of judges, sitting and waiting for the competition to begin.

JMB

Linz · 01-10-2019, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Pip01

On the other hand... if the squirrels and birds
begin to gather 'round... then perhaps you have
hit upon something!!

I used to live pretty rural. Was playing at an abandoned cemetery way out in the country a few years ago. Not a soul in sight. Played a couple of tunes, then Hubby started laughing. Turned around, and there must have been 50 cows lined up at the fence, and more running down out of the hills... Does that mean I'm now a "Cow Whisperer?"

will granger · 01-13-2019, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Linz

I used to live pretty rural. Was playing at an abandoned cemetery way out in the country a few years ago. Not a soul in sight. Played a couple of tunes, then Hubby started laughing. Turned around, and there must have been 50 cows lined up at the fence, and more running down out of the hills... Does that mean I'm now a "Cow Whisperer?"

I had the same experience once. The cows seemed to appear out of nowhere!

David · 01-13-2019, 08:32 AM

Goat herds and dolphin pods, too.

el gaitero · 01-13-2019, 09:11 AM

My wife was wishing for jackasses....

Pip01 · 01-13-2019, 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Linz

Turned around, and there must have been 50 cows lined up at the fence, and more running down out of the hills...

Greetings to All,

I would have also included a second quote... about the
pigeons lining up upon the wire... when John Blunt played...
had I the I.T. facility for such... but and alas... I am still
rather like a monkey with a cello... when it comes to such...
so I can but mention the pigeons here...

There is a rather wonderful old story (pub. 1920s?) by
Frank Stockton... entitled "Old Pipes and the Dryad"...
that brings these... and such things... into clearer view...

When we play outside... and perhaps even the more so...
when it is just as a single piper... we oft times can never
know... nor can it be gainsaid... what effect... the pipes
may have... upon any being... that may hear them.

Our forest friends... or some small child who may hear the
playing at a distance... and then some dozen or two years
later... again hear the playing... and know that that sound is
the one that they want to learn... how to make!!

And so... The Music... still progresses... "As the Old Chariot
Rolls Along"...

Regards... and Happy Piping... to All... :)

Pip01

11-30-2018, 04:55 PM	#1
Piping Potential Forum Member Join Date: May 2018 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 60	Piping in the Park This isn't a joke but something that recently happened. I went to a local park to play and when I arrived it was FILLED with people. May have just been coincidence, but after about 15 minutes the place was pretty much completely empty.

12-23-2018, 10:59 AM	#4
Pip01 Holy smoking keyboard! Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: North America Posts: 3,214	Re: Piping in the Park On the other hand... if the squirrels and birds begin to gather 'round... then perhaps you have hit upon something!! :) __________________ My friends all know, With what a brave carouse...

01-13-2019, 08:32 AM	#8
David Holy smoking keyboard! Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Haifa, ISRAEL Posts: 4,333	Re: Piping in the Park Goat herds and dolphin pods, too. __________________ TEL AVIV ST ANDREW'S DAY GATHERING-2/4 March JON QUIGG'S REEL A BEGGAR'S SOUL-Air (Score) A BEGGAR'S SOUL-Air (Sound)

01-13-2019, 09:11 AM	#9
el gaitero Holy smoking keyboard! Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Estados Unidos Posts: 6,109	Re: Piping in the Park My wife was wishing for jackasses....