Why do bagpipers walk when they play?
To get away from the noise!!!
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because they can …
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Go on Dan! Show that pessimist “danny flute whistle box” that he’s wrong! The level of discussions on this here website is spiralling ever upwards into dizzying heights of rhetoric, insight, wit and wisdom, the like of which has never been seen before! Not “plummeted”, as he and others are daring to suggest!
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exactly why i posted this haha 😛
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A moving target is harder to hit, from what I’ve been told…
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Because not so many can fly while they play.
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The ones with regulators aren’t allowed to …
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When I try to walk when I play, I trip, fall over and wind up crawling instead whilst leaving a trail of broken bagpipe parts behind me.
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“To get away from the noise” Almost correct, DJF. We actually walk about in a bid to find that one elusive spot where the things will actually sound OK.
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It has crossed my mind that while sitting in a crowded pub with a set of uilleann pipes strapped on, what the hell would I do if a fire broke out. While all the fiddlers and flute players were scurrying out the door, I’d still be sitting there with an anchor attatched to my waist. I suppose there may be a drunk or two passed out and left behind, but other than that I’d probably just be better off playing my last tune and go up in flames rather than struggle fruitlessly to escape from the anchor.
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Ha! At least you don’t have to worry about the old question: “if there was a fire, what would be the one thing you would grab before running out”
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I heard a tour guide say once that bagpipes were used to march into battle at one point to scare the enemy? Someone mentioned that they must have been killed very fast and he went on to say that most of them were stabbed in the back!
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Darn tootin gam, but in the event that I didn’t have my pipes strapped on, I’d be grabbin one more pint and scurrying out the door. 😲
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Can’t believe no-one has said that it’s to get away from the drummers……..
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well, they are mostly all drummers obviously.
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Nice one, RidhardB. Incidentally, a ‘skirl’ is actually a shriek resulting from mis-fingering of the chanter. So the ‘skirl of the pipes’ is far from the romantic idea promulgated by the ignorant (ie the English). 🙂
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most bagpipers are essentially nervous types. They are not walking- they are pacing!
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“It has crossed my mind that while sitting in a crowded pub with a set of uilleann pipes strapped on, what the hell would I do if a fire broke out?”
The answer is simple, Boatpiper: pump your bag full of water before you begin. The multitude of tubes, holes, keys and valves means you have a highly sophisticated sprinkler system.
N.B. Be sure to keep a spare set filled with compressed CO2, in case of an electrical fire.
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On the subject of bagpipes---
For anyone who has missed this not to be missed video
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In response to th original qustion: It’s a noise abatement measure - just as, at Heathrow Airport, they swap the take-off and landing runways every 12 hours, so that those living under the flightpaths have twice as many years before they go completely deaf.
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😉
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Ha ha good lads, glad to hear the tone has been raised. Those who know me round here will know my now deleted thread was half in jest…the other half was a genuine question. There are some fvcking dire threads on here nowadays .I just wonder what the fuq do people do with their lives that they have to come on here and ask the most ridiculous questions. As for me, I’m always busy busy busy, but like to have some down time, thus the previous thread.
So, why do pipers walk? dunno isn’t it because they are trying to get away from the bliddy noise? Or that the war pipes are just that - war pipes - lead your troops into battle, and you won’t do much leading unless you walk.
Hmm….
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It may be to disorientate the enemy - an early form of ambient music, in fact. An army faced with a foe’s pipers wandering round at random, their sounds maybe muffled / fuzzied / exaggerated the vagaries of topography or weather, must feel like a picnic party being buzzed by a few wasps, hearing a dreadful deep hum coming from *somewhere*, and being quite unable to determine exactly where the nest is; until they’ve taken a chance on it, sat down, and then been attacked by about three kilograms of wasps all in one go.
But of course, the most pressing reason for bagpipers to walk while they play is to mitigate the terrible, unremitting, fiery itch of the lice that live in the noisome dark crevices of their kilts in vast shoals and batten upon tender parts of their anatomy. The logical notion of putting all the pipers compulsorily through a sheep-dip at frequent intervals is not taken up. This is because in a more comfortable state, they would be too likely to stop for fa*g-breaks etc. and neglect to walk around playing ceaselessly and getting on people’s nerves, which as mentioned above is their real purpose and duty.
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(I crossed with danny, above!..)
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Another post lost. Fed up with it.
Jeremy sort it out please.
From what I can recall, no worries lads, the deleted thread was half in jest the other half serious. Pished Gazza offered to bring Raoul Moat a dressing gown and some chicken saying he was a good lad really. We haven’t sunk that low yet have we?
However there is a lot of twee middle class mithering. I can’t help laughing at the tossiness of it all.
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