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Old 09-30-2010, 10:16 AM   #19
Shawnee123
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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla View Post
Amazing Grace can make you cry. Flowers Of The Forest can make you want to tear your heart out of your chest with your fingernails for grief. I think the only reason I don't tear up playing it is I'm concentrating on my fingering. It's a slow tune, often played solo anyway, so your doublings and other figures really show up.
Yesterday I was sitting here at work and I heard bagpipes. I looked out the window and down across the street were a bunch of bagpipe players. (What is a group of bagpipe players called? A bevy of bagpipers? A pride of pipers? A murder of musicians?)

There were here for an event on campus. They were just warming up at that point but I went outside and listened to them play Amazing Grace, and then watched them at the event on my lunch break.

It was very nice.
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