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No Way
She hasn't the Gaelic in her, so how could she play the pipes, I be asking?
Hmmm
Doesn't she have some Scottish blood flowing through her veins - on Dave's side? I seem to faintly recall Maddy slipping that tidbit into one of her 'early' chapters.
PB
But Scottish isn't
But Scottish doesn't mean having the Erse, and so it isn't always being the Gaelic to be a Scot. Now I do know that they have the pipes in Brittany and even in parts of Spain, so mayhaps some of the Celts did once know how to play, but surely it were only those Celts with a bit of Eire in them that could, right? And I know that some will even say that the Greeks taught the Basque to play back then before the Mores and even the Romans came, but we do all know now that it is only, later, that the real pipe were made, and only the Gaels, those of Eire, that perfected them and, especially, those of the Highlands that kept the Art alive.
I've never heard
Star Wars on bagpipes before, does she ride the unicycle to make a quick getaway before anyone stop her? Unicycles like penny farthings are very inefficient forms of cycling.
Angharad
Angharad
Music Critic
Not that I recognized the Star Wars theme 'right off the bat' ... but back when I lived in an apartment, I once had a neighbour in the ajoining unit that loved to play Led Zeppelin on the bagpipes. I must say, he did a really commendable job on 'Stairway To Heaven' - just too bad he decided to debut it at 3am.
PB
BAGPIPES!? That was Eeeeeevil! -- grin --
Soooo very good to see you back, Karen.
I'll have to see if I have a Dr Pepper in the downstairs 'frige to toast your return with.
I'm -- 53 -- old enough to remember news articles about some either college or was it a private prep school -- probably a college prep school -- where everyone was required and encouraged to learn to ride a unicycle. I guess for purposes of fitness, balance and comic effect.
- snicker -
I think maybe Johnny Carson had some on The Tonight Show. They were amazing, taking even stair steps with them. Involved a lot of hopping the unicycle if I recall.
As to the bagpipes. I don't think there is any genera of music, any tune that cannot be make WORSE by bagpipes. I think they play Amazing Grace on them at funerals to ensure the dead are not just in a really deep coma.
John in Wauwatosa with not the least bit of Celtic blood in him... I HOPE. Still not sure about my namesake; the man who emigrated from somewhere in the UK between 1840 and 1850. Could be a touch there. Might explain my reluctance to spend money.
John in Wauwatosa
Evil music
When I was at university, the father of a fellow student once claimed that when he'd been in the army, he once somehow managed to play a recording of the 1812 Overture at top volume over the tannoy... at 5am. If true, that must have been an evil prank to play :)
Then again, I expect nobody was still asleep come the finale - especially if it was a recording using cannon rather than timpani...
There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't...
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
Let's see Gaby do this!
She ain't got a drop of Scottish blood, so she couldn't play the pipes, nor does she like haggis.
May Your Light Forever Shine
May Your Light Forever Shine
She might not be Scottish, aye?
...but she could play Uilleann Pipes if she had any Irish Gaelige blood in her, and Pipa Cŵd for sure with any Welsh in her. But even the MacDonald in me would bet you're probably right about the haggis, though.
Dio vi benedica tutti
Con grande amore e di affetto
Andrea Lena
Love, Andrea Lena
At least not a banjo or accordion
At least not a banjo or accordion. I cannot even imagine the Star Wars theme played on a banjo or accordion, nor would I want to try.
Unicycling bagpipers
It seems as though this chap isn't alone in successfully pulling off the stunt. There's one who turned up to a festival in Canberra, Australia; but the one in Portland, Oregon appears to be a local celebrity, who's even earned a page on the Portland Wiki - additionally raising a few eyebrows last December when he took to the streets in a Santa costume...
There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't...
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
Don't forget
Northumbrian pipes a la Katherine Tickell, and is it a woman on the unicycle? Looks more like a man.
Angharad
Angharad
skirt == kilt
I think it's a man in a kilt.
Abigail Drew.
you got to wonder
what is going through the mind of the other biker, the one on hte side street? Here it is a nice day when a person on a unicycle goes rolling past with bagpipes
I don't mind bagpipes, but I also love Polka music too I's weirdz
So the piper...
So the piper rides the cycle to mask the mediocre playing, huh.
No - I'll NOT critique the playing. As to cycling while playing? I've seen folks doing a lot of other things while on a unicycle so no reason a piper that rides couldn't. It's certainly "safer" than juggling knives or sabres while riding I'd think. And - perhaps the piping makes riding safer - I mean, only a deaf person could claim they didn't hear the piper coming.
Anne
P.S. I've considered using two "pots" when out piping. One that says "play" and one that says "don't play"... :-) And, which ever is the more full...