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Seven Years to Make a Piper: March 2011
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Traditionally, a piper served a 7-year apprenticeship before being unleashed on the unsuspecting public. These are my 7 years. Sunday, March 13, 2011. This is the part I hate the worst: waiting behind the curtain, listening to the hub-bub of the audience, and all of us waiting for the cue that starts the show. Ocus, watch the PM's F. Oot, and have F. Then the curtain opens, the lights knife through the blackness, and we move out along its golden path into the Moment of the concert. This year, tuning was ...
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Seven Years to Make a Piper: October 2010
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Traditionally, a piper served a 7-year apprenticeship before being unleashed on the unsuspecting public. These are my 7 years. Saturday, October 16, 2010. 2010 Seaside Highland Games, Ventura, California. Despite these odds, last year the Salt Lake Scots scraped up enough money to send the band to Ventura to compete against these bands. As you might expect, we did not place. Or even show. Pretty much the same bands were competing this year as competed last year, the best being UCR (University of Californ...
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Seven Years to Make a Piper: February 2011
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Traditionally, a piper served a 7-year apprenticeship before being unleashed on the unsuspecting public. These are my 7 years. Monday, February 28, 2011. Happy Birthday to me. I was born in a heat wave in the heart of summer. My birthday was celebrated today. Perhaps you noticed a discrepancy. Here's the story. I settled on the closest Leap Day to my actual date of birth: 29 Feb 1960, thinking it would only come up once every 4 years. I changed it, and completely forgot about it. What could I politely do?
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Seven Years to Make a Piper: July 2010
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Traditionally, a piper served a 7-year apprenticeship before being unleashed on the unsuspecting public. These are my 7 years. Thursday, July 15, 2010. Once upon a time, work days and lesson or band days were all different days. Once. It appears there is an easier version of our jig, Piper's Wedding. That Jason invented just for the band because we weren't getting the strikes in the ending of each part. So we went over that, no problem. Well, OK, some tuning problems with certain people's chanter...I thi...
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Seven Years to Make a Piper
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Traditionally, a piper served a 7-year apprenticeship before being unleashed on the unsuspecting public. These are my 7 years. Sunday, March 13, 2011. This is the part I hate the worst: waiting behind the curtain, listening to the hub-bub of the audience, and all of us waiting for the cue that starts the show. Ocus, watch the PM's F. Oot, and have F. Then the curtain opens, the lights knife through the blackness, and we move out along its golden path into the Moment of the concert. This year, tuning was ...
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Seven Years to Make a Piper: The Real Issue
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Traditionally, a piper served a 7-year apprenticeship before being unleashed on the unsuspecting public. These are my 7 years. Monday, November 21, 2011. He said, "OK, and I was going to tell the pipe corp. A lot of bands have been having issues with those reeds we're using. Issues with staying in tune and stuff. It's not just us. I've got some new ones on order. They should be here next week.". Operator Error like you've been saying (loudly) (and angrily)for the past 3 weeks? It was the REEDS?
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Seven Years to Make a Piper: June 2010
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Traditionally, a piper served a 7-year apprenticeship before being unleashed on the unsuspecting public. These are my 7 years. Monday, June 28, 2010. Carrying the Wrong Tune. Last week practice, as per usual, people were facing walls and trees, warming and tuning their pipes. Me, too. I ran through my march and slow aire, then the circle was called. PM went around fine-tuning. As he tuned the person next to me, he commented on my playing during the warm-up: What was that you were playing? The point of ha...
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Seven Years to Make a Piper: The Power of Prayer
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Traditionally, a piper served a 7-year apprenticeship before being unleashed on the unsuspecting public. These are my 7 years. Friday, May 17, 2013. The Power of Prayer. Last Wednesday, I drove from work to band practice. It was a very windy day, and threatening rain. We were not sure if we were going to practice marching in the parking lot, or go inside. However, when PM showed up, he removed all doubt: "It's a perfect day for piping! I was locked out. The driver's door opened! But it opened right up!
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Seven Years to Make a Piper: October 2012
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Traditionally, a piper served a 7-year apprenticeship before being unleashed on the unsuspecting public. These are my 7 years. Saturday, October 20, 2012. I did not get such a good deal on airline tickets. Ian did not get such a good deal on hotel rooms. We did not have the tuning issues we'd had last year. We took 1st in the March Medley, and 2nd in the Timed Medley! Jack was not there to be our Drum Major, so I called him during a break. He was happy to be included. PROMOTED US TO GRADE III!
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Seven Years to Make a Piper: May 2013
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Traditionally, a piper served a 7-year apprenticeship before being unleashed on the unsuspecting public. These are my 7 years. Wednesday, May 22, 2013. My favorite part of piping is the piping circle. When we play, the pipers form a big circle, so that we can all hear each other's playing. The more pipers, the bigger the circle. You can also see what everybody else is playing by watching their fingers, and see the tempo the Pipe Major is setting (with his foot). You might end up standing across the circl...
