@djb_at_12semitonescom: "Just idly surfing youtube...  having a cup of tea and
a rest,  after humping some heavy speakers about......
Maurice Ravel wrote the "Bolero" in or about 1928
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( Andre Rieu + Johann Strauss Orchestra )
Little Drummer Boy was written by Katherine K. Davis,
Henry Onorati and Harry Simeone in 1958
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(Boney M)
I have always thought that one owes a lot to the other.....
One other Andre Rieu performance, which I thought was
quite memorable..... ... the open-air Waldb�hne Theatre in
Berlin, where - just after "Amazing Grace" had finished -
Andre reminded the ladies in the audience that they were
surrounded by 300 pipers who are wearing no underpants
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If Andre ever comes to a city near you - Grab some tickets!..
The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards did a very special
arrangement of Amazing Grace....   much more hymnal
and lacrimoso than usual...    but very gritty...
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John Newton (1725-1807), wrote Amazing Grace to be
part of a sermon on New Year's Day of 1773, and I have
always preferred to hear that, rather than the graunching,
ear-ache which is ........  (shudder....).....
"Auld lang syne" - I am physically allergic to that song - I will
leave a building to avoid hearing it...... I've hated it since I was
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(gasp!.... more tea...  much more tea.....)
Even the bagpipes have to go into 'falsetto' to play it...
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I think the idea was - You play this tune when marching
into battle - and the enemy runs away because of the
risk of ear-ache..... and tinnitus...   and madness....
Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuggghhhh!!!
I remember working out an an arrangement of "The water
is Wide", for bagpipes, which I did for a pipe-and-drum
band....  the drones have to be set to "A" and wrapped
in socks, so as not to argue with the tubas and other brass,
which do play F# G and D now and then...
So - in my book - there's only a handful of tunes where
bagpipes can happily play along with an orchestra..... but
those few are always worth the listen...
I did record "The leaving of Liverpool" with a hint of bagpipe
here and there - but that's the limit of my experience with those
contraptions, and I, personally, have never managed to get a tune
out of them yet...   I think you have to have genuine Scottish
ancestry or something...   or maybe whisky instead of blood...
Anyway - back to work...    I've just "repaired" a pair of new
PA speaker cabinets  which I was told "don't sound right" ....
and of course - this was a rush-job.....
Well - the cabinets sounded OK individually - but as a pair -
they were completely out of phase..  one pushed - and the
other pulled...   These were unbadged but brand new..  and
this time, Chinese quality-control got it wrong....    Quick
soldering job  ... done.....    I wish everything was so easy...
Good grief - it's lunchtime........
DJB"
    @muirheadNOm: ""D.J.B" <djb _at_ 12semitones.com> wrote in message 
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... and there wasn't a dry seat in the house... "
    @djb_at_12semitonescom: "yep - if you're not wearing underpants - you don't
want to sit down on a wet, rainy, outdoor theatre
seat......!!
DJB
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    @Barking: ""D.J.B" <"D.J.B"> said...
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Speaking of bagpipes, I've been meaning to ask where you managed to find 
a set of highland pipes in the key of G. As in The Lily of the West?"
    @muirheadNOm: "<Barking> wrote in message 
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PROPER higland pipes are all b-flat... average ones are something pretty 
close to that and they require a lot of (sometimes frequent) tuning to make 
them remotely useable as non-solo-instruments <shudder>).  Period.   That 
said, a well-tuned band of 20 to 100 pipers doing multiple harmonies and 
counterpoints is one of the musical world's *truly* awesome sounds!
Wee pipes (several styles) are available in other keys, but who TF makes *G* 
pipes in highland style? "
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My grandfather used to play the bagpipes if we were naughty ie Bagpipes 
= A weapon of mass punishment brrr the thought brings back trauma!!
A wonderful WW2 slightly risque cartoon that my uncle brought back from 
Europe shows a dozen or more pipers standing on a small hill playing 
away and all lifting the front section of their kilts - the Nazi's were 
running away in the distance in sheer terror..."
    @muirheadNOm: ""Netmask" <email_address> wrote in message 
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Funny difference: my father used to play bagpipes (badly, but it had been a 
requirement of his post-sec schooling), and I can still remember loving the 
sound itself and thinking "if only he could actually *PLAY* those things..."
Sounds about right... so imagine the effect it all must have had hundreds of 
years earlier (prior to "industrial warfare")... when the pipers who marched 
before their advancing platoons were untuned, covered head-to-toe 
(especially their spiked/mohawked hair) in white chalk dust, and painted 
everywhere in bright blue (woad-dye) images depicting nothing but death, 
destruction and the vengeance of The Gods.  :-) "
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