On 15 May 2007, Francis Wood wrote: > Are there any anecdotal remarks known from any > of the classic old pipers?
Well there's the story of one of Jack Armstrong's reeds which he is supposed to have played for 50 years, until in some pipers gathering or other, someone took it out of the chanter to look at it while he was out of the room, and cracked it whilst putting it back in haste. According to Patricia Jennings it was called "Old Nasty" - no idea why. I've had that story from several players, but it doesn't add up, since he only started playing around 1930, and (I understand) was obliged to give up playing several years before his death in 1978. Julia To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
