Bagpipes - Threat or Menace?

[Ron Green]

Poll question: Bagpipes - Threat or Menace?

Once again on the anniversary of 9/11, memorial services everywhere are accompanied by the skirl of the pipes. Do you feel this is appropriate for American elegaic events, or could you just as soon do without?

[loveable liberal]

1. i like the bagpipes.

I wish i could play them. I'm a quarter scot tho. amazing grace isnt the only song, and there are a variety of bagpipes from around the world, not just scotland. anyway, thats probably more than you want to know. I do understand how people can think they are menacing. I certainly wouldnt want to wake up to them.

[Maple]

2. What???

They can play reggae on the pipes....git yer ears on mon!

[Lady Effingbroke]

3. Mull of Kintyre!

Mull Of Kintyre Lyrics
Artist: Paul McCartney

"Mull of Kintyre, oh mist rolling in from the sea
My desire is always to be here
Oh Mull of Kintyre

Far have I travelled and much have I seen
Darkest of mountains with valleys of green
Past painted deserts the sun sets on fire
As he carries me home to the Mull of Kintyre

Mull of Kintyre, oh mist rolling in from the sea
My desire is always to be here
Oh Mull of Kintyre

Sweep through the heather like deer in the glen
Carry me back to the days I knew then
Nights when we sang like a heavenly choir
Of the life and the times of the Mull of Kintyre

Mull of Kintyre, oh mist rolling in from the sea
My desire is always to be here
Oh Mull of Kintyre

Smiles in the sunshine and tears in the rain
Still take me back where my memories remain
Flickering embers go higher and higher
As they carry me back to the Mull of Kintyre

Mull of Kintyre, oh mist rolling in from the sea
My desire is always to be here
Oh Mull of Kintyre

Mull of Kintyre, oh mist rolling in from the sea
My desire is always to be here
Oh Mull of Kintyre"

Chock full'o pipes!

[Ron Green]

4. Lovely - I assume these lyrics are accompanied by bagpipes?

[Lady Effingbroke]

9. Oh, yes!

Paul McCartney wanted to write a 'traditional' Scottish song, and it does, indeed have quite an accompaniment of bagpipes - it's a great song (at least I think so)!

[name not needed]

5. I love bagpipes

You should hear the Dropkicks Murphys versions of Amazing Grace and Cadence to Arms.

[EstimatedProphet]

6. Bagpipes rock! n/t

[HEyHEY]

7. Awesome

[randr]

A bagpipe with perfect pitch

is one that lands squarely in the dumpster on the first toss.

[BlueJazz]

11. An honorable Gentleman is........

...someone who knows how to play the Bagpipes...but doesn't.

[BlueJazz]

15. Why do Bag-Pipers walk when they play?

To get away from the sound.

[JohnKleeb]

8. Love em

[partygirl]

10. I think they are

great. So mournful and sad. I was at a friend's funeral and nothing captured my feelings as much as the sad sad sound of that piper. And the funeral was gloomy too. So emotional. It just gets me every time.

[Tangledog]

12. I heard a bagpipe

We went to the park in the middle of the next town over and walked through. There was a "chalk talk" in which people wrote or drew their 9/11 thoughts/feelings.

There was one bagpiper walking around. Upon detecting said bagpiper's presence, Ms. Tangledog stated, and I quote, "I hate bagpipes."

I don't hate bagpipes. I have a mild problem with them because they only do one thing -- they wheeze, mournfully and off-key -- and once you catch that essence of the bagpipian spirit, there's not much of anyplace left you can really go. Wheeze. Moan. Wince ever so slightly at an especially awry tonefart.

But, for 9/11, they're okay. I don't think the bagpipe added to my experience of what was already a sort of uninspired remembrance, but it didn't really detract in the way a lot of forms of musical expression could have.

[DS1]

13. If you play bagpipes at my funeral

I will rise from the dead and zombie-slap you.

Go ahead, think I'm kidding.

[ChoralScholar]

14. I believe the legal term for Bagpipe is: Torture by Wind Instrument

[realisticphish]

16. trivia about amazing grace...

the only reason it's associated with bagpipes is that an early bagpipe group(dont remember which) needed a song of a certain length to fill the empty space on their record, and AG was the right length


btw, you do realize that bagpipes are WAR instruments. they are designed to terrify and act as signals for the troops, since they can be heard through the noise of battles. i happen to really like bagpipes. its a wierd, getting-chills kind of thing, really haunting to me...


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[PittPoliSci]

17. i love bagpipes.

n/t

[realisticphish]

18. also, ever heard shoots and ladders

by korn? awesome bagpipe solo at the beginning played by jon davis, the lead singer


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat