Do I take it you're a Pibroch lover? Or not?
John
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 19:38:06 -0500 (EST), D. Glenn Arthur Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bagpipes:
An Irish invention, given to the Scots as a joke.
They never did catch on.
Or:
An Indian invention that got tossed on the dungheap, found by the Scots, who
have been blowing the crap out of them ever since.
The irony there is that although bagpipes are today associated primarily with the Scots in most people's minds, darn near every culture seems to have come up with the idea -- a bladder or bellows supplying air to one or more single- or double-reed pipes -- independently at some point in history. I've got more recordings of Flemish bagpipes than Scottish ones in my CD collection.
But I'm still going to remember that second version to inflict on someone at the next Celtic festival I go to anyhow.
But hey, if the list hasn't been argumentative enough for folks:
vi rocks, emacs sucks, and nothing else is even worthy of being called an editor except maybe EDT!
(Well, that usually works to start a holy war on the _other_ high volume mailing list full of opinionated people that I read, anyhow ... Now to sit back and see whether there's a single TECO user on the PDML to rise to the bait.)
-- Glenn
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