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Post subject: The Scottish Society  Posted: November 10th, 2006, 8:55 pm |
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The Scottish Society
This club is simply for those who like Scottish things, is Scottish or anything that has to do with that... we can talk about dancing, bagpipes, culture, history, HAGGIS... just as long as it actually has something to do with Scotland.
So...
Members
1. Haldir o Lórien (founder)
2. The Nightingale
3. Banana_Republic
4. Sidawethiel
5. TrueNarnian
6. Wandering Darkness
7. Snowbird
8. Nauriel Rochnur
9. Mrs. Haldir
10. Elanor
11. Memory
12. Emri
13. Ela
14. ~*Starglass*~
15. Nienna Anárion
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Post subject: Posted: November 11th, 2006, 6:47 am |
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I would like to join! My sis plays the bagpipes. She's supposed to be teaching me Chanter, the learning instrument, but she promised 3 months ago and I haven't had a single lesson...
Do you like Shotts and Dykehead?
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Post subject: Posted: November 11th, 2006, 10:54 am |
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^Yeah I do! They are simply amazing 
Oh cool your sis plays the bagpipes? That is so awesome.. I don't currently play it so I'm a tad idiotic, but the chanter is what you play before you get to the bagpipes, am I correct?
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Post subject: Posted: November 11th, 2006, 11:49 am |
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Can I join? I love the bagpipes .
I have a couple of videos of a guy standing on the street corner in Edinburgh playing a couple of songs but I don't think I can put them online. _________________ "There's an ocean between.....where I am and where I want to be" 
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Post subject: Posted: November 11th, 2006, 3:20 pm |
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Yeahh welcome, Banana! Ooh I found a few vids like what you're talking about in YouTube.. bagpipes are so cool
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Post subject: Posted: November 11th, 2006, 3:29 pm |
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Yes! Mwahaha! Bagpipers Club! Yes! I was debating about starting a club like this but thought no one would join....
Yay! I love the bagpipes! I play them and dance to them (Highland dancer ^_^) This is exciting.
Here's me playing (Well, I guess I wasn't exactly playing because i was playing with the timer on my digital camera...more like just holding them  )
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Post subject: Posted: November 11th, 2006, 3:57 pm |
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Post subject: Posted: November 11th, 2006, 4:10 pm |
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Of course I'm joining the club! I'd be stupid not to!
Playing...*giggle* I love my bagpipes, they're like my child. Well, they're not necessarily hard to get used to, it's just like learning to play any other instrument, of course this one does require you to use more muscles and stuff.  When learning how to play them you start out on a practice chanter, which is like a recorder, after you get good at that you can move up and start playing the bagpipes...I have a set of Shuttle pipes, which are like the inside version of bagpipes, they're much quietier...I started playing those until I got a full set of Bagpipes, mine are Shepherd Bagpipes, they're pretty nifty The whole point of mentioning that is, that it is a huge leap from chanter to bagpipes, but usually you just start playing the drones before actually worrying about playing songs and moving your fingers.
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Post subject: Posted: November 11th, 2006, 4:27 pm |
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Ooh that sounds like alot of exciting fun... soo how long were you using the practice chanter for before moving on?
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Post subject: Posted: November 11th, 2006, 5:12 pm |
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Bagpipes are wicked! I shall join.
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Post subject: Posted: November 12th, 2006, 2:51 am |
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Well, It all depends upon your budget. Money! For the average student it could take a year or so, sometimes less sometimes more. It took me err 5 years until I actually bought a full set of bagpipes. However I think I got my shuttle pipes a year after I started playing on my chanter. But you don't necessarily have to buy shuttle pipes/practice pipes, I just bought them because they were way cheaper than a big set of bagpipes.
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Post subject: Posted: November 12th, 2006, 3:40 am |
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My sister was on the chanter for 2 years before she got her pipes. She's now a grade 3 piper. Before we moved, we used to go to lots of Highland games... I wore her kilt once when she competed with her band ( Go Cabar Feidh! ).
My sis is asking for parlor pipes for Christmas (wouldn't that be nice? Our house echoes so much that even with the doors closed you can hear it anywhere in our compound!) The other night after Volleyball (just for fun, some friends have a net and after church everyone goes and plays) Cait (my sister) brought her chanter because this one guy has been begging her to teach him so we were playing around on it. I know how to hold it and blow, but that's about it. I may be able to borrow her book and the chanter sometime and teach myself.
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Post subject: Posted: November 12th, 2006, 3:49 am |
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Oooh, that's exciting! I highly suggest taking it up, it's a ton of fun. Hehe, next summer I'm competing, I'm actually kind of nervous about it, I'll be playing "The Taking of Beaumont Hamel", "Molly on the Seashore" and "Captain Colin Campbell"...it should be fun... Yay! Kilts! I love mine, it's Holyrood, Love it.
Of course, that isn't my clan tartan, mine looks like:
It's true, I'm a Campbell....well technically, a "Fisher" but, it's a sect of the Campbell clan....
Kilts, yes, love kilts. My mom has err...11 kilts, we received them from my grandmother....she had this thing about kilts, she loved making them and buying them
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Post subject: Posted: November 12th, 2006, 4:11 am |
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wow, 11 kilts!!!!!! I have a plaid skirt that I love (makes me feel like a Highlander!) but I found out it was made in Austria! (surprise, surprise!)
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Post subject: Posted: November 12th, 2006, 1:52 pm |
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*cough* I bought a kilt for fun.. I'm nowhere near Scottish but I love your culture 
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Post subject: Posted: November 13th, 2006, 12:10 am |
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Speaking of Scottish things, I'm wondering if any of you guys' have ever seen the show "Monarch of the Glen", it's off of BBC, and I am pretty much obsessed with it. it's scottish and wonderful.
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