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Tunes of Glory
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A Personal Account
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While casually web surfing nearly two years ago I found a reference to an attempt to be made on the World Record number of bagpipes in New York - sometime in April 2002. As an ex-pat Scot living in the US who has always enjoyed being assaulted by the wave of sound as a mass of pipes lets rip at the one time I was suitably interested. I put it in the electronic diary with an alarm set about two months ahead of the event. In due course sometime in February this year, the alarm on my computer demanded my attention and I looked up the event. Clearly it was on!
My contribution to the charities of the day is this site. I am offering digital images "for free" - in return for you making a donation to either of the charities. Please see the gallery page for details! |
The Tunes of Glory
These were the official sets on the day. If you have a midi equipped sound card (most computers with sound do) click on the links in the left column to hear them. What you will hear however depends on the bagpipe samples installed on your computer! It can be gruesome! For those of you who use Bagpipe Writing Software - the links on the right will get you the files in bww format
Shareware bww player can be downloaded here |
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After
a few seconds of debate with my wife - who was kind of hoping for
a cheap week away to Bermuda - agreed to a show on Broadway Friday
night in return for Saturday being "My Day" in New York.
She got "Cabaret". I got "Scotland the Brave"
at least 500 times!