Can any of you regulars on SKMB play the Great Highland bagpipe, snare, tenor or bass drums or have

[Blake]

I'm just wondering as I love the sound of the snare drums and all things of the Scottish marching band. I wish I could play those snare drums as when I hear them I get a shiver up my spine. About a year ago I was having a beer at an Irish pub here in Newcastle and the Newcastle Scottish Band came marching and playing through the pub with the girl with the collection box. Everybody got up. I remember when I was in Inverness in Scotland in 1986 and I went to this castle and there was this black haired guy done up in kilt etc and he started playing the bagpipes, and after about two minutes he said something in Scottish Gaelic and the translator said: '"He said that you are welcome to this castle and to our land'" They seemed to like me when I mentioned that my father was Swedish. 'Scotland is the land of the Pict, the Celt, and the Viking.'
Strange race those Picts, disappeared from history pretty much, but the Romans couldn't touch them.

 

[Grandpa]

Aye, me grandmutter's name's O'Sullivan, and the bagpipes call to me. It goes beyond musical appreciation. It resonates in the very blood.

 

[mal]

I remember as a lad the folks gathering and bagpipes, fiddles, and sword dancing (and drink) went on with relatives, neighbours, and friends. I was very young and all of that faded away as I grew. That's about as close to my Scottish heritage as I came. I don't feel any particular yearnings for the hills. I grew up on the Canadian prairie and like the big open sky. That being said, I do like some of those old Scottish ballads (which my dad listened to on old 78's) and have enjoyed the celtic influence in modern music as well. In Ardua Tendit, mal.

 

[FlakeNoir]

Well, Ewan McGregor is Scottish and plays the pipes (maybe?) and I think he is sweet and hot and... does this count?

 

[blunthead]

Well, Ewan McGregor is Scottish and plays the pipes (maybe?) and I think he is sweet and hot and... does this count?

No, dammit.

 

[Debbie913]

Well, Ewan McGregor is Scottish and plays the pipes (maybe?) and I think he is sweet and hot and... does this count?

Yes, I say it counts!

 

[FlakeNoir]

No, dammit.

Yes, I say it counts!

Then... I'm going with Deb's answer.

 

[Debbie913]

Good choice, Flake.

 

[CoriSCapnSkip]

I once sat in on a session with an Irish band whose drummer couldn't make it. I brought a friend's drum, hadn't practiced with them at all, just winged it, did very well and even got paid! And I listen to that sort of music all the time and have attended Scottish events.

 

[blunthead]

Then... I'm going with Deb's answer.

Good choice, Flake.

Bite me.

 

[FlakeNoir]

Bite me.

And catch your flu-bug? You must be feck'n joking!

 

[blunthead]

And catch your flu-bug? You must be feck'n joking!

You might like it.

 

[FlakeNoir]

You might like it.

I'm choosing to not know what I'm missing out on.

 

[blunthead]

I'm choosing to not know what I'm missing out on.

Hmph. Yer no fun.

 

[GNTLGNT]

...and the winner for longest Thread title ever, goes to:......

 

[GNTLGNT]

 

[GNTLGNT]

....short of the butt trumpet-I have no musical ability whatsoever....I am Welsh, so that music calls to something ancestral in me...

 

[Spideyman]

...and the winner for longest Thread title ever, goes to:......

I had to read that title twice. Early and no coffee yet.
Love the sound of music those instruments make, but lack the talent to play any of them.

 

[not_nadine]

Just piano, but I did see Ashley MacIsaac once, and it was awesome.

 

[blunthead]

I had to read that title twice. Early and no coffee yet.
Love the sound of musical those instruments make, but lack the talent to play any of them.

I love the sound of musical, too. It's one of my favorite movies!