@ DigitalFrog: Having once known a professional bagpiper, I’ll tell you what he told me. Pipers walk as they play because they have to blow very hard into the blowpipe in order to keep the bag inflated. Unfortunately this can lead to fainting because, if done for long periods of time, not enough blood will get to the brain. Walking simply keeps the blood circulating properly.
BTW: I absolutely LOVE bagpipe music! But then, I have a lot of Scots ancestry on both sides of my bloodline.
Actually, I have a wee bit of Scot blood as well, I have Robert the Bruce among my ancestors. I do respect a good bagpiper, but they’re just fun to make sport of :)
DigitalFrog says:
Actually, I have a wee bit of Scot blood as well, I have Robert the Bruce among my ancestors.
Ok, R the B died in 1329 it is now 2008 so that is 679 years. 20 years in a generation gives, we’ll round that up to 34. Now if each generation had 2 kids live long enough to have kids them selves that would be 2^34 or almost 18 billion descendants.
On the other hand I claim to be a descendant of King Volsung of Norway using the same math.
I think bagpipes is something you either like or don’t like. Sometimes, after a while, you get more used to it and find you do like it. I have CD of Scottish music, but I don’t usually listen to the whole thing. But there are numbers I have heard that I really like.
h20man: I wonder what kind of reaction that would produce! However, I’ll let you do it for me, as I’m not sure how an “old” woman would be received! Too many guns in that area! I’d hate to lose my Scottish CD!!!!!
Jml58 about 16 years ago
Thank You for not playing.
attyush about 16 years ago
Hey, I am a good musician. It’s just that I make more money this way.
wndrwrthg about 16 years ago
The piper at the gates of dawn in his sunset years.
BirishB about 16 years ago
It took me a minute, but I figured it out: the piper must be Congress … I mean, we do pay them to do nothing, right?
circuit7 about 16 years ago
No, they get paid. We just wish they would do nothing.
Wildmustang1262 about 16 years ago
I never like riding the bus. Waste time to be waited forever! I never like the bagpipes because it sounds so horrible!
Digital Frog about 16 years ago
Why do bagpipers usually walk as they play? They’re trying to get away from the noise….
reynard61 about 16 years ago
@ DigitalFrog: Having once known a professional bagpiper, I’ll tell you what he told me. Pipers walk as they play because they have to blow very hard into the blowpipe in order to keep the bag inflated. Unfortunately this can lead to fainting because, if done for long periods of time, not enough blood will get to the brain. Walking simply keeps the blood circulating properly.
BTW: I absolutely LOVE bagpipe music! But then, I have a lot of Scots ancestry on both sides of my bloodline.
Digital Frog about 16 years ago
Actually, I have a wee bit of Scot blood as well, I have Robert the Bruce among my ancestors. I do respect a good bagpiper, but they’re just fun to make sport of :)
KingRat about 16 years ago
DigitalFrog says: Actually, I have a wee bit of Scot blood as well, I have Robert the Bruce among my ancestors.
Ok, R the B died in 1329 it is now 2008 so that is 679 years. 20 years in a generation gives, we’ll round that up to 34. Now if each generation had 2 kids live long enough to have kids them selves that would be 2^34 or almost 18 billion descendants.
On the other hand I claim to be a descendant of King Volsung of Norway using the same math.
westiewestaz about 16 years ago
I think bagpipes is something you either like or don’t like. Sometimes, after a while, you get more used to it and find you do like it. I have CD of Scottish music, but I don’t usually listen to the whole thing. But there are numbers I have heard that I really like.
h2oman about 16 years ago
A CD of bagpipe music ????? Crank it up and drive slow down a Mexican neighborhood, more fun than waiting for the bus…
westiewestaz about 16 years ago
h20man: I wonder what kind of reaction that would produce! However, I’ll let you do it for me, as I’m not sure how an “old” woman would be received! Too many guns in that area! I’d hate to lose my Scottish CD!!!!!