> >Worked for a publishing company, and one of the VP's played
> >the pipes. He'd go up on the roof of the building at lunch
> >at least once a week to play.
> >
> >While returning from an early lunch, I was approaching the
> >building, enjoying his jamming, when an older women exiting
> >the building heard the sound, looked up, then looked at me
> >and said "My, I do *love* the sound of the saxophone"...
>
> <snicker>
>
> Probably the "oddest" thing I've ever experienced is when I went to Germany
> back in '91 -- I was stationed in Oerbke <sp?> north of Hannover about 50
> clicks, in the "british" sector of what was divvied up Deutschland at the
> time. I was in a German gasthaus (bar/pub) in Fallingbostel drinking beer
> (German, of course) & playing cards with my buddy. The cards were given to
> us by the Brits (nice folks!) but were made in Spain. In comes a Scot in
> full kilt & uniform with bagpipes, and he played for around an hour -- the
> last thing he played before he left was "Yankee Doodle" for the visiting
> Americans... :-)
There's a guy I work with that plays the bagpipe. He practices outside
during lunch with a practice instrument (it looks like just the mouthpiece
with the holes for playing notes). After the September 11 tragedy there
was a memorial service at the flagpole in front of the main building and
he played "Amazing Grace" on his bagpipe (mention of "Amazing Grace" is not
an invitation to merge this thread in to the religion thread).
--
Eric Dittman
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Received on Sat Nov 10 2001 - 10:26:21 GMT