You are helping to make my point about bag pipes. I like different types of music for different reasons. To be annoyed or made fearful is not on my list. But then some people like that I guess.
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I hear ya on the "
like" aspect of the pipes and do thank you for the consideration of the "
for me". Some might blatently say they hate something.without regard for others. Shows class on your part to have made that comment of your POV.
Like a lot of things in life, some are an acquired taste, the pipes I found to be one of them, as I too were not big on them at the start. But, being married to a die hard Scot, I've been immersed in the Celtic culture like it or not! So, it's been a kinda "get used to them" attitude. But ya know, after attending a few pipe contests along with all that goes with the Games, they can and do grow on ya.
I found that there's almost a science in the judging of the bands and just how they are in fact measured as to their ability to perform. It's a group effort, but just the one in the band can screw it up for the rest.
And, as Valve pointed out they can make a parade as there's just something in the shrillness that stirs the air/soul. Mind you having a tad o' Celtic in yer veins probably helps?
Try taking in a
Tattoo (massed military marching/brass/pipe bands) some time where there's a massed ensemble of say twenty or so pipe bands and the sky seems to shake when they cut loose. It's quite the experience, much more than a single band can offer. Course a single well acomplished piper at a funeral playing a lament can bring a tear to even the hardened soul. This I can attest to, eh?
Sorry for the ramble. They say
Scotch is also an acquired taste to the lips. I'm still working on that one.
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