Almost wiped out a local legend!

We've talked about this guy several times before (including just today in another thread), but I almost wiped him out today as I was coming out of a downtown parking structure.  I look for pedestrians and cars, but you don't expect a fast-moving unicyclist!  Fortunately for him, I heard the awful screeching of the bagpipes and stopped to look - he had to swerve around me a little.
 

What's the difference between a chopped onion and chopped bagpipes?
 
Nobody cries over the chopped bagpipes. 

sauteed? 

brilliant jyemz

That llama looks like my momma.

She was from Yokahama.

And acted in a drama.

At the local Cyclorama.

Here in England we have a similar but more genteel and refined approach to these things.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8KAFOkdAxQQ

We saw the tuba guy in action outside the London Science Museum last December.

Once you can see into the tuba's bell his flame rig is very simple and very, very clever. Looks amazing in the dark.

No. It's his trick and he's just as entitled to keep it secret as my mate who used to have an act that involved used Music Hall tricks like escapology and shattering big concrete slabs with a heavy sledgehammer while they rested on his partner's ribcage is not to have his secrets revealed.

>:-)

 
 

Besides there's always this! 

Are bagpipes Scots? Well, at least two types are. The "highland" or "great" pipe which is the most famous, has a distinctive and unique scale. They're the kind played by played by Mr Vader. The other Scots kind is known as "lowland" or "border" pipes because they were played, you guessed it, in the lowland region along the Scots/English border. Or "smallpipes" because they're smaller than bigger types of bagpipe. These are more technologically advanced and play a pretty much standard scale. They also have a more domestic level of volume.

England has bagpipes, the bigger, louder type died out in the 17th century, but has had a bit of a revival since the 1980s. There's an unbroken tradition of Northumbrian smallpipes however, and they're among the most technologically advanced pipes of the lot. There's some very, very good players around.

Northumbrian smallpipes - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MFYyVj6he_g

Ireland, of course, has the distinctive Uillean pipes - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XsdAUwXekSc

After that, it's easier to say where in Europe doesn't (or didn't) have bagpipes, and often more than one kind.
Books have been written about the history of bagpipes, they're one of the oldest and most widespread instruments.

Here's a few more examples of the species. The French style are probably the most widespread, very similar pipes were, and still are, played across most of Europe.

Scots smallpipes - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YsDXQxCacKg
French, in the band context that's common nowadays - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S2lhBeyKyI4
A different kind of French pipe - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xWOQf7td5HM
Britanny - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5KMzTlfm5iI
Galicia (Spain) - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uzF35iRocJA

craigb
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Nobody cries over the chopped bagpipes. 

Except the Goons ... but then, radio comedy is not something most know or appreciate these days?
 
Nobody treated and played the bagpipes better than Spike Milligan as an effect on that show! 

Hi,
 
I was thinking that some local legends here should be definitely be wiped out ... my first one would be Pink Martini with the Portland Symphony. And bring back Flo and Eddie, instead! The second one would be to get rid of the folks running the Mt. Hood Jazz Festival, and start bringing in different people instead of the same old traditional thing. Even their station is as bad as the festival!
 
I think my next one would be to paint some of the Max trains like the Further bus ... I bet Craig, Kenny, Eph, myself and others might even try it one more time just for fun!
 
Ok, time for my daily nap before ...