PPRP #010 Pipes are best from afar.

On this episode I share some of my thoughts and experiences regarding what could be the most idea environment/location/or situation for making your pipes ring, and also when they maybe shouldn’t be fired up. I’ve begun to connect some dots from recent experiences and some utterly fascinating literature I’ve been reading. I close the episode with what I might make a regular occurs, “Chris’ Piping Poem of the episode”!

• Bagpipes not suited for all locations.’

• Not pleasant chamber music.
  • Turning off people not otherwise accustom to the bagpipe sound

• Evolved outside in the Highlands for celebration, memorial, or combat.

• “The hills themselves are its appropriate concert room, and among them it pervades the whole atmosphere, and becomes pat of the air until on can hardly tell whence it comes. It makes rhythm with the breeze and chimes in with the rush of the torrent, and becomes pat of the world in which it is produced. It suits the bare heath, the solitary cairn, the dark pass, the silent glen, and the mountain shrouded in mist as no music ever did or can do, and it is at its best floating across the silent loch or over the mountain stream.
  • What’s a cairn? Google says, “a mound of rough stones built as a memorial or landmark, typically on a hilltop or skyline”
  • Large number of YouTube videos of pipers playing out doors in dramatic settings.

• Playing in doors, close to others should be avoided
  • “As to the man who practices the ordinary pipes in an ordinary city apartment, … he is

the worst enemy of his craft and worthy of all execration”.

• Playing on the beach at the wedding