I’d like to check in as a lover of the pipes. Except when on the field at a highland game and EVERY BLOODY pipe band plays Scotland the Brave. That exceeds my limits. I can’t think of an instrument I don’t like. Including all the ones mentioned here.
I just like things that make music.
A full set of uillean pipes has the same number of drones as a set of GHB (though they play on 3 different pitches rather than 2), and also has regulators, which are like drones except they can play a full chord.
And mark me down as another lover of the bagpipes (with the Northumbrian smallpipes being my favorite). I can’t think of any instrument that I truly hate, though xylophone and marimba and their various relations would have to be my least favorite of all instruments.
I like bagpipes. In fact, I started a thread asking for bagpipe and accordion music a while ago.
Well of course, but that’s because it’s Glenn Gould, not because it’s a piano.
The latter. Thanks for allowing me to clarify.
There you go again… 
But you’ve never done me wrong so far, so I’ll give it a try… **
Gil Evans would be the major attraction for me, in spite of his unfortunate dalliance with Jimmy Hendrix’s works.
**…sounds like a line in a mediocre blues tune from the 70s by Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee.
[sup]…the tune being mediocre, not ST+BMcG[/sup]
Would that be Stan Boreson? As a kid I use to watch him with his dogs Slo Mo and No Mo.
Also, add me to the absolutely hates bagpipes group. Especially Amazing Grace. I would like to propose legislation to ban that song from ever being played on bagpipes again. Hearing it makes my skin crawl.
That’s him! He’s real old friends with my uncle and aunt. My cousins always used to get a kick out of playing with a real TV star. Stan’s pretty much limited to a wheelchair these days, but he still plays a wicked accordian.
Well, Northern Piper and yBeayf have exposed me as a bluffer. I’ve never actually seen anyone play the uillean pipes. I didn’t even know they existed until I heard them played on Fiona Ritchie’s Whistle and Padlock:rolleyes: radio show. That’s why I didn’t know how uillean (Ms. Ritchie claims it means elbow) is spelled, and why I didn’t know any physical details of the instrument. I’m glad someone was here to provide actual information, and I’m grateful they didn’t throw a lot of mud at my ignorance.
Not a real big fan of the bagpipe, but when you graduate from Scotland High School you learn to tolerate them - -and if you can get five people together, you can do a fairly good impression of them (four choose a drone pitch to hum*, and the fifth does the melody).
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- OK - not so much a hum as a nasal “WHEEEE” noise.