Re: [ARSCLIST] LP storage &c. (and bagpipes)

[George Brock-Nannestad <pattac@xxxxxxxx>]

From: Patent Tactics, George Brock-Nannestad

We have had small groups of dedicated bagpipe players in Denmark for a long 
time, each starting with a practice chanter and playing in some kind of 
tartan, complete with sporran, dirk, etc. However, lately, bagpipe music has 
become associated with death, burial, possibly of heroes. This is due to dead 
soldiers who come from the faraway war theaters we participate in. When the 
corpses arrive, airlifted from the theatre, there are bagpipers ready in 
Denmark for them. It was never a Danish tradition, but possibly Scottish. I 
like bagpipes less, now. But then I actually dislike Ode to Joy (Freude, 
schöner Götterfunken) in Beethoven's ninth, ever since the European Union 
appropriated it for its "Union Anthem".

Kind regards,


George
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> When my older sister got married, my father wanted to have bagpipes 
> playing after the ceremony. I asked a Scottish friend of mine if he 
> knew of any bagpipers that could play at my sister's wedding.
> 
> He replied, "Why?To frighten the guests?"
> 
> John Bondurant
> Sound Preservation & Access Assistant
> Berea College Appalachian Sound Archives
> 
> On Dec 3, 2005, at 2:56 PM, Don Tait wrote:
> 
> >   Regarding this diversion to bagpipes and bagpipers, I am reminded of
> > something I read many years ago: a child, seeing and hearing a 
> > bagpiper, supposedly
> > said to him later "maybe if you stopped squeezing it it would stop 
> > screaming."
> >
> >   That said, I confess that I enjoy hearing bagpipes once in a while.
> >
> >   Don Tait