BAG PIPES...

[the next 'one']

so i think i am going to try and learn to play the bag pipes sometime soon. i have been looking around and found some pretty nice ones for around $150. i have heard its the hardest instrument to play because of the lung capacity you need, but i have strong lungs...i guess. in band i held a not on the sax for over a minute. i would say thats strong enough for them bags. i guess i will put the legend of the bagpipes being the hardest instrument to the test.

[Storm21]

OH please no...do not become one of them!!!!!


I have something against bagpipes...maybe because my teacher last year was obbsessed and never stoped playing them

[laxman37]

Holy crap...what type of sax, I play sax too. One minute is a loooooooong time. Northwestern University (where my dad went) has a marching bagpipe band.

[shoebag2000]

Bagpipes are sooooooo sweet. You have to get a kilt too if you get them. But yeah, learn some contemporary rock songs on them or something, and then post it up on TLF, and you will be my hero.

[Monzo]

Bagpipes are incredibly hard. I know a couple kids that play and they look like they're struggling so much when they're playing. If you're just starting, you probably wont start on the actually pipes right away. You'll start with a chanter, which is similar to a recorder. One of my classmates brings his chanter to school all the time and it's really. really. really annoying.

But have fun. They're really cool if you can learn to play them well.

[LoyolaMiddie878]

bag pipes are tight. i have a pair at my house (my grandpa gave them to us, he's from scotland) and i play with 'em every now and then....and yes, they are extremely hard to play. it's hard to get any sound to come out of them, let alone a note.

[Lax1228]

One minute on the sax is really hard to do unless you can do that thing where you breathe while you play...needless to say i can't do that

[FitzGoalie]

i'm in an irish band, and a friend of mine plays Irish Uillean(sic) Pipes...they're pretyy sweet

[Mavido]

My econ teacher this year plays bag pipes and the irish flute.. its awesome...

[HdGLaxWarrior]

Got haggis?

For all you who don't know what haggis is, it's sheep stomach, heart, and lungs. Yum.

[MNM19]

learn to play some Dropkick Murphys or Flogging Molly. that would be awesome

[jedimasterPIMP]

You may think you have strong enough lungs, but you don't. Playing the bag pipes is extremely hard, and not to mention you practice on this little small thing called a chanter or something that sounds wierd. And also, they are just really hard to play, all the air aside. I tried playing them a while back and I just eventually stopped.

[Bone_ThugZ]

You may think you have strong enough lungs, but you don't.
How do you know this? Do you even know the kid? Stop shooting down his dreams. OBVIOUSLY some people play it, so it can be done. Ease up playa.

[jedimasterPIMP]

How do you know this? Do you even know the kid? Stop shooting down his dreams. OBVIOUSLY some people play it, so it can be done. Ease up playa.
Your right I don't know this, but, I do know how hard it is to play them, and I do know how hard it is to play them and what you expect as not what it is. I'm not trying to shoot down his dreams, I'm just telling him the reality and that its gonna be hard. And I know it can be done so don't even bring that up. I'm not saying he can't do it so get off me.

[JaxLax30]

Your right I don't know this, but, I do know how hard it is to play them, and I do know how hard it is to play them and what you expect as not what it is. I'm not trying to shoot down his dreams, I'm just telling him the reality and that its gonna be hard. And I know it can be done so don't even bring that up. I'm not saying he can't do it so get off me.

You may think you have strong enough lungs, but you don't. Playing the bag pipes is extremely hard, and not to mention you practice on this little small thing called a chanter or something that sounds wierd. And also, they are just really hard to play, all the air aside. I tried playing them a while back and I just eventually stopped.

Ummm...didn't you just say it right there? :bull:

[GarysGod]

so i think i am going to try and learn to play the bag pipes sometime soon. i have been looking around and found some pretty nice ones for around $150. i have heard its the hardest instrument to play because of the lung capacity you need, but i have strong lungs...i guess. in band i held a not on the sax for over a minute. i would say thats strong enough for them bags. i guess i will put the legend of the bagpipes being the hardest instrument to the test.

its not so much of your lungs as it is hardness...its amazingly hard to learn. and good bagpipes are no where near $150, heres one for $930: http://bagpipestore.net/sr_bagpi_highland.html?theme=bagpipes, and this is just the bagpipes and doesnt include extra chanters or anything.

[faceitoff]

Bagpipes are sexy.

[laxman37]

Bagpipes are sexy.
Wow.....very...helpful. But i agree.
And I agree with you MNM, playing some floggging molly would be awesome.

[NuKoN]

I have great respect for the bagpipes, with my familys police background and all.. I find them to be sort of beautiful, but they always depress me.

[the next 'one']

I have great respect for the bagpipes, with my familys police background and all.. I find them to be sort of beautiful, but they always depress me.

what do bagpipes have to do with police?

[NuKoN]

what do bagpipes have to do with police?

I don't know if its just around here (thought it was all around), but at funerals they play Amazing Grace and some other things on the pipes. ALso at this thing called Police Week out here in Suffolk County, the bagpipe band they have plays a bunch of songs, my friends think I'm a loser but I think the bagpipes ar ea really beautiful instrument.

[shoebag2000]

I think its everywhere. Same for firefighters I believe. I want to have bagpipes played at my wedding and my funeral. That would be so sweet.

[laxman37]

Yeah, here they play Amazing Grace...I swear, it's the only song they know.

[the next 'one']

I think its everywhere. Same for firefighters I believe. I want to have bagpipes played at my wedding and my funeral. That would be so sweet.

too bad you wont be there to notice it...

[spenny]

being of scottish descent, every time i hear the bagpipes i understand how my ancestors could run into battle with nothing but a sword and a skirt.

check out the crofters, seven nations or gaelic storm for some less traditional celtic music.

my wife and I had a piper at our wedding, we left the church to "scotland the brave"

boy, do love that sound!

[shoebag2000]

Haha, that is so cool. I was just thinking today how much I would like my wedding to be a scottish wedding, with kilts and bagpipes. I would like to have bagpipes played at my funeral too.

[the next 'one']

its like in "So i married an axe murderer" they have bagpipes at the wedding.

[shoebag2000]

Exactly. They have kilts too. Thats exactly what I want (except without the axe murderer).

[spenny]

Haha, that is so cool. I was just thinking today how much I would like my wedding to be a scottish wedding, with kilts and bagpipes. I would like to have bagpipes played at my funeral too.

thanks. it wasnt really a full-on scottish wedding, but i wore mine, my best man wore his, my dad wore his, and several of my friends wore theirs. there were maybe 8 of us in kilts.

[roycegracie47]

I was in the Rockville High School Pipe Band (which was originally the Robert Perry High School Pipe Band until that school closed) for my freshman and sophmore years. However I was in the Drum Corp and was working my way up to Drum Seargent when the state of the band changed, mainly the drum instructor we had left for college and his replacement only cared about the kids (who didn't actually go to RHS) who were his private students. When things didn't change I quit to focus more on wrestling, and others followed suit for their own reasons. My sister is in it now though and seems to like it more than I did.

[shoebag2000]

thanks. it wasnt really a full-on scottish wedding, but i wore mine, my best man wore his, my dad wore his, and several of my friends wore theirs. there were maybe 8 of us in kilts.


Was renting them expensive? I may consider it for homecoming or prom next year as well.