Dark Side of the Horse by Samson for February 20, 2015

When someone plays the bagpipes it certainly makes me go to another place.

When I hear bagpipes, images start going through my mind… mostly involving physical violence being inflicted on bagpipers…

Hey, I LOVE the pipes! Though I did hear recently that one piper was having trouble renting a practice space.

Haha, love the bagpipes! ;-)

Back when I was a student archaeologist and we had a dig in the Inner Hebrides, we arrived by ferry boat and the pipers ‘piped’ us into the little harbor. It was great!-I’ve also appreciated the pipers in local parades over the years. We have Scottish games here in Central Florida, and pipers are always a feature.-I guess it’s one type of music you either love or not so much…

I remember hiking through some woods and hearing a piper practicing. It seemed really natural in that setting. It had a really lonely sound; like some kind of strange echoing bird call. He probably practiced out there so his wife wouldn’t kill him.

My only problem with bagpipes is that they are almost always sad: police funerals, Danny Boy.

If the bagpipes aren’t your thing, you might try the Northumbrian smalllpipes, as played by Kathryn Tickell: try https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=INoXpsQ23sQ

Ön the other musical hand, I do NOT rcommend you search out the Moroccan Bagpipe. It’s everything I was led to believe about it, and more.

You might also think of the Northumbrian pipes as the erotic pipes; just watch the chanter, and you’ll understsand. :)