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11/27/2006
Bagpipes, here I come!
It's amazing what you find out about people when you get talking to them. For example, yesterday I was playing with my orchestra at a church service, and afterwards, as we were packing up, I started talking to one of the violinists, whom I'd never talked to before. As it turns out, he used to play the bagpipes. I said, "wow, that's awesome - I'd love to learn to play the bagpipes!" So he said, "Really?", just to check if I was serious, and I said, "Yeah, that really would be awesome!"
He offered to teach me some stuff about piping during the breaks of our regular orchestra rehearsals. So now all I need to do is find myself a practice chanter and a tutor book, and I'll be set to go! Woohoo!
Of course, I told this to my parents when I got back home, and I'm telling you, the look on my mother's face... Priceless!
This will be so neat. I love Scottish music (and celtic music in general), and the bonus is, if I get any good at it, I can join a pipes and drums band, and attend things like highland games, and we all know what that means. Men in kilts!! What could be better?
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