Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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8 September 2010
21:3969392I`ve seen bagpipes mentioned on the forum a few times. Are there any bagpipe player`s in Dover or locally, and if so, are there any other`s on here who love to hear them? We`ve always been to Scotland over the year`s, as opposed to the Costa whatever, and loved the place, and we always managed to find a piper in Inverness or beyond. I feel like packing my bags now and disappearing off up there just talking about it. Anyway, it would be a pleasant change to hear them in town. I did see and hear the one up the Western Height`s weekend event.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Keith Sansum1
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8 September 2010
21:4769394iM NOT A BAGPIPE player
Did I ever tell you about when I was 7 and wanted to join the school choir??/
lol
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Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
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8 September 2010
21:4969395Scotchie and I know a few local bagpipers, and i cant think which band they play for.. but we have been known to go bag piping in strange places!!
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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8 September 2010
21:5269396City of Rochester Pipe Band
http://www.corpb.co.uk/Been nice knowing you :)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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8 September 2010
21:5369397this all sounds rather insidious jen, would you like to clarify your statement?
Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
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8 September 2010
22:2369407erm... our bagpiping friends have been known to bag pipe on the breakwater, inside the western heights, among other places..
and blimey howard... you should know by now.. type as I speak and think about it later!!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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8 September 2010
22:2569408with you now jen, sorry for being a bit slow.
it seems that they break wind on the bag water, makes sense to me.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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8 September 2010
22:4469411We were staying at my daughter's house in the Cairngorms a couple of weeks ago. A piper started playing in appropriately enough Pipers Cottage, a couple of hundred yards away and right on the edge of the moors - I can't decide if it was a magical moment or wished he was a couple of miles away.
There's a local piper who always plays in the haggis at the Crabble Folk Club nearest to Burns Night - last time they fogot the haggis so used a sausage roll instead and adjusted the words accordingly, it was hilarious.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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8 September 2010
23:5069420Colin, we could do with a regiment of pipes and drums, stationed at the Castle. National work service for volunteers, and with motivation, forwards, march! There is so much work to do, and no motivation to get it done. I longed to work an orchard in the Garden of England, but one day I am sure we will have pipes and drums, hobnailed boots marching, arms swinging, and bright and breezy young people marching out to work, in mass.
I can think of at least twenty factories we could do with here in Dover.
People need motivation, and I say, keep Britannia's Massed Regiments of pipes and drums marching, until dawn comes and a new day.
9 September 2010
00:1969432That sounds like something they tried in Cambodia in the 1970's Alexander. Minus the bagpipes of course.
Personally I'd like to see a Jock trying to play a Bagpuss, now that would be worth paying for.
9 September 2010
07:2869442But bagpuss is a cat !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
9 September 2010
11:0069473Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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9 September 2010
14:2269496Sid
I know someone who could play he bagpipes
comes out with a lot of old hot air lol
not another word from me lol
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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9 September 2010
14:3969506Sid! I did clearly write: for volunteers! I must reject your statement, as I am not one for bullying!
I would not asociate myself to an evil system that bullys people to work!
Infact, motivation through music implies that people who want to can choose music and an association of internal discipline and organised help in order to find work and go to work, and even while working.
Please don't confound this ideal for volunteers with a system of forcing and bullying!
{please note again the word: volunteers!
What I mean is, many people might be fed up just signing on because there is no motivation to help them along, and while more and more people are being made redundant.
Life is worth living, and I want to enjoy my life and not let good health pass away to stress and nothing.
Others may think likewise, and therefore might like some enjoyment and motivation to be able to work.
9 September 2010
15:3569514I love the bagpipes. Isn't there a bagpipe farm nearby? They go lovely with mash.
Seriously - I really do love the pipes!
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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9 September 2010
17:3569529Bern, I am interested in hearing Irish bagpipe music. So far I have English and Scottish, the Northumbrian small pipes and Highland war pipes. It is hard to find any pipe music from Ireland, and yet Ireland has the Uillean and the two-droned war pipe.
I also know that Bern means: mountain way in Irish. When I get home from work I stay up tp about three in the morning, lately, reading a book on the original Celtic Church.
Apparently, in the sixth century the Celts sent Augustine packing when he tried to take over the Celtic Church. I can imagine them marching, pipes and drums playing, and Augustine turning round and beating it! Many Anglo Saxons stnding around grinning.
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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9 September 2010
17:5169535My grandfather, Alfred H. Haynes, wrote a history of the Dagenham Girl Pipers in 1957 to coincide with a world tour. Unfortunately no-one bought it so he didn't make much money. Sadly he did only a little better with a few small histories of Dover pamphlets he wrote.
Just thought I'd throw that one in there.
9 September 2010
18:4169550I saw the Dagenham Girl Pipers play at Wembley a s the half time entertainment for the Harlem Globetrotters. They were terrific, but not as terrific as Meadowlark Lemon, surely the greatest basketball player in the history of the sport. His skills would make Michael Jordan and the other overpaid crybabies look like amateurs..
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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9 September 2010
19:0869566SID
I watched them at wembley to
we may have been in the same crowd
lol
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Guest 661- Registered: 16 Mar 2008
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9 September 2010
19:3969572I know a man who can play the pipe's, people either love or hate the pipe's like marmite personally! I love both. Can put you in touch if interested.
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