I played Tennor Drum in the Pipe Band, but being a big guy they kept trying to get me to carry the big drum…nah… but i have some funny tales about those days
but i do think its important to keep your heritage alive, funnily enough the last band i played with comprised of a vast majority of English guys who loved the pipes… amazing, non had a Scittish connece\tion
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Do I indulge? I never go out without bells attached to my knees and elbows…
Me and the lads on a Thursday Afternoon in the Tesco car park…
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I used to play the Scottish pipes until my 1st TIA, so now I amuse myself with the arm-pumped Uillean pipes and those also hit the spot. What’s that? What do they sound like? Let Davy Spillane demonstrate👇
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I still have my multiple strings of bells hanging up in one of my wardrobes and with someone my height, that’s one heck of a lot of bells 
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that was a very nice Video LD, my idea of hell was being trapped in a bandroom with thirty odd pipers on thier practice chanters all practicing different tunes…
today most Bagpipes are made in Pakistan, who would believe it…
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Anywhere has to be better than China🤬
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Ah, but at least the chanters will vary in sound output, whereas the drones really DO annoy some people 
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LOL, one of my happiest memories was watching the pipe-major tuneing the drones before a parade/perfomance…remember back when everyone smoked, if he approached a piper who was having a wee smoke while waiting, and remembering there were no ashtrays handy, the piper would simply stick his ciggy into his ear…lol… now that was a sight, a piper with a full bag just hitting random notes while the pipe-major adjusted each drone…
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If you like pipes The Chieftains are great .
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I studied Spanish at school many years ago and back then we were told that Spanish was the most widely spoken language in the world. Just wondering whether it still is.
More recently I did several months of a U3A Spanish course locally. Poor old brain is taking longer to process and retain information now. 
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It’s the third most spoken language in the world .
Mandarin is the first
English is the second ( or vice versa )
Spanish is a great language , if you understand Spanish you will have some understanding of other Latin languages such as Italian and Portuguese .
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Because long ago some Pope degreed it
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Wow! I vividly remember our teacher telling us on our very first lesson that we had made a good choice because it was the most widely used language but that was late 60s/early 70s. Thanks
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I just looked it up Muddy and it says English is the most spoken language in the world, then Mandarin, then Hindi, then SPANISH!
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I am not sure about that Hindi is spoken in India it’s not widely spoken
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Well most sites agree on this Muddy, even if you don’t believe it.
im with muddy on this, there are about a billion and a half Indians and their official language is Hindi but how many can actually speak it, for example [and i dont know this for a fact] but i would wager they dont all speak it in their Parliment… then again what do they speak in the Irish HOC.?
It’s not WIDELY spoken Rose.
Spanish and English are WIDELY spoken .
Most people know someone who speaks Spanish .
Many people speak Spanish as a second language ( I do myself )
I don’t know a single person who speaks Hindi .
It’s not even the national language of India where there are so many dialects that the lingua franca is English.