# A half century gone.  A very early MMP

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**Created:** [September 29, 2008, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-half-century-gone-a-very-early-mmp/465649 "2008-09-29T01:48:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-half-century-gone-a-very-early-mmp/465649/24 "2008-09-29T13:32:01Z")

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> [@My world, and welcome to it; a pictorial MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-world-and-welcome-to-it-a-pictorial-mmp/464664/377):
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> 1. After a while the bagpipes WILL annoy you, I used to play. _hangs head in shame_

Bagpipes are occasionally OK, but I can be easily annoyed by them.

It’s tradition in parts of the US that _Amazing Grace_ is played on bagpipes during the funeral for firefighters and police when there’s a line of duty death.

I’m of German and Scandinavian descent and Lutheran, not Presbyterian or Catholic, so I’m not too hip to _Amazing Grace_. I made my wife promise on pain of haunting that there will be no bagpipes and definitely NOT that particular hymn if I cash in at a fire or rescue.

Is it possible to put a pipe organ on a trailer so they can play _A Mighty Fortress_ instead?

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