Oldest pipe band member

[jim lynch]

im still shooting for being the oldest active pipe band member in colorado. our band, west wind, practices every week. i still play weddings (a couple a year)
and funerals ( 1 every month). i have trouble keeping my pipes going so sometimes i cork off the middle drone. i hope to open the durango celtic festival thuresday night performance for 15 minutes. i will be 84 this sept.
my dunsire log in number is 224.

if anyone knows of someone older, and still in a pipe band, in colorado, please let me know.
thanks, jim lynch

[BaggyMcPipes]

Re: oldest pipe band member

Congrats, Jim! I hope you set a world record- and then I hope I can break it someday!

Keep it up, buddy!

[Pip01]

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Jim,

Keep after it!! Just keep after it!!

And... "Th' Devil take th' hindmost!!"

All the Best!!

Pip01

[PMT]

Re: Oldest pipe band member

Bob Semple, City of Hawthorn (Melbourne, Australia) Drum Major, and Piper with The Rats of Tobruk (a former Rat himself) is currently 98 years old I believe! Just appeared on a postage stamp for remembrance day. Not Colorado I know, but certainly worth a mention! (and well done by the way Jim, not wanting to detract from your Stirling effort).

[piper Q]

Re: Oldest pipe band member

I plan to live longer than a certain biblical character, so far so good... but I'm yet a young piper at 61 currently.

[Klondike Waldo]

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I plan to live longer than a certain biblical character, so far so good...

So, I'm guessing not Abel

[piper01888]

Re: Oldest pipe band member

I believe in the old adage 'you are only as old as you feel'
Ergo, I am the oldest living piper because I feel like I am
about 110 years of age. Simple math. lol

[Pip01]

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Greetings to All,

I have a very good mate/friend... who was an
active... and very good drummer... well into his
far-late 80s... and is now... still in kit... as the
band's emeritus snare drummer... and as the
band's announcer... at 92!!

I aspire to do... half as well... If I'm lucky!!