I’ve been home all day with a migraine. It’s finally gone, so I thought I’d get some practicing in with my chanter.
It makes my head hurt. I’ve stopped.
I hate migraines. :mad:
Chanter?
Google pause
Good Lord, man, are you trying to kill yourself? Any sound from one of those devilish instruments is bound to drive you insane!
I’m afraid it’s far too late to worry about that now!
At least I had the good sense not to try the full pipes. And my practice chanter is buzzing, which is another irritation. Time for a new reed, I fear.
Your courage… your fortitude… If you’re not insane from playing those… those… things, you *must * be superhuman. in complete awe
Whenever I try to play my practice chanter, I get light-headed.
That happens to me too, Johnny. I’ve found that working out to improve the lung capacity helps with that problem.
Ironic - all these years I’ve avoided going to the gym because I’m not athletic and don’t enjoy working out - now that I want to play the pipes, that’s become part of my training regimen!
Trust me - in the piping world, I’m a mere beginner. Far from being superhuman, I’m more of a Gollum.
Now you have to send me a picture, or forever look like Gollum playing the bagpipes in my head. 
Now I have an image of Gollum playing pipes in your head - sorta like Being John Malkovich.
:: flashes back to her Everquest days on playing an enchanter character ::
No wonder…it gave me huge migraines as well. Everyone expecting you to stop hordes of monsters at the drop of a hat. God forbid you died and caused everyone else to die. I hated it, but it was cool when you could control 35 monsters at a time and at the end, everyone worshiped the ground you walked on because they didn’t die. Then there was the times…
What? Oh…wrong chanter?
You could always use the solution of a humorist (anybody recall which one?) for how to play the bagpipes without requiring a lot of wind:
- Obtain large cat from animal shelter.
- Put on Highland finery.
- Place cat under arm, facing rear.
- Place cat’s tail in mouth.
- With arm, squeeze cat; bite tail. Modulate resulting sound by amount of squeezing, tail-biting.
My lips always hurt after playing my chanter. And by “always”, I mean like the two times I actually played it before I gave up. I should really get lessons or something.
Yeah, yeah, I like bagpipe music, so sue me.
I knew I wasn’t the only one who thought this!
And everyone loves you, because you give them “crack”…
Former level 56 'chanter chiming in. Too bad someone made the comment before me. :smack:
“Doc, it hurts when I do this.”
“Don’t do that.” 
(It’s too easy, man, it’s too easy.)
hehehehe, I knew the hordes of SDMB EQ chanters would show up in this thread. I have to admit, I thought the same thing when I saw the thread title. People bugging you for KEI, wanting you to mez things that are unmezzable, and of course all the “Can I be a gnome?” requests in the middle of a fight with 27 adds and haste is fading…
head explodes
Former lvl 65 enchanter, quit playing EQ due to migraines and increasingly poor reflexes. I was going to say “me too!” - whoops.
(Sorry about hijacking the thread further, btw.)
Now you know how the rest of us feel.
Now I’m puzzled - what’s Everquest? a D&D variant?
Pretty much. One of those online computer games where hundreds or thousands of real people can all be on the same online “world” at once. Enchanters - commonly abbreviated as “chanter” - are one of the more difficult character classes to play, and are very much in demand.
A common slang term for the game is “EverCrack,” referring to its addictive nature. Figures it’d take some pretty rough stuff like migraines to break me of that habit.