The Battlefield Band, an internationally touring band of Scots, used to play a yearly concert in the Frank Lloyd Wright church on the Plaza here in KC. The church, if you aren't familiar with it, along with Wright's awesome design, has a "trinity light", which is basically 3 powerful spotlights constantly pointing to the heavens. It's meant to represent the Holy Trinity.
Anyway, listening to the bagpipes, whilst staring up at swirling snowflakes in the trinity lights, with the famous Plaza Lights as your backdrop......well......that's about as close to heaven as ya get. The bagpipes are mournful and reflective.....and yet celebratory. Few instruments have such range of emotions. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Larry Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: > > I found my practice chanter a couple of years ago and after replacing the > reed tried playing it. 30 seconds later Wendy threatened divorce and the > ferrets were trying to dig through the walls to get away. So not really. > > But I love listening to them. On the iPod I have the final concert of the > 2005 Edinburgh Tattoo (over 2000 massed pipes), the Simon Fraser University > Pipe Band, and the Pipes and Drums of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of > Canada. > > There's nothing like hearing The Piobaireachd of Donald Dhu very loud. > Scares the hell out of the neighbours. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:292300 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
