Broom Hilda by Russell Myers for October 20, 2022

I’d rather hear music from a squeeze box that bagpipes.

The devil is in the details

One sounds like a dying cow, the other like a barbershop quartet with headcolds…

Q- What’s the difference between a bagpipe and an onion?A-Nobody cries when you cut up a bagpipe.

check out the snakecharmer on youtube…heavy metal bagpipes…she is awesome!!

Lady of Spain

A little ditty…about Jack and Diane?

Q: Why do bagpipers march?

A: To get away from the noise.

I can appreciate the accordion because my Grandpa played one. Growing up he and his friends would get together and play! Bagpipes I can only take about 5 minutes and then it gets annoying and on my last nerve! LOL

I always wanted to learn the bagpipes as a child. My parents wouldn’t let me as they didn’t want the noise to disturb the neighbours who only lived half a mile away.

Broomie has the wind for the bagpipes, and the hand for the accordion, and a nose for trouble. Yip yip yip yip yip

“The accordion looks and sounds like you have a cat under your arm and are biting its tail.” Many

There was a young Scottish boy called Angus who decided to try life in Australia. He found an apartment in a small block and settled in.

After a week or two, his mother called from Aberdeen to see how her son was doing in his new life.

“I’m fine, “ Angus said. “But there are some really strange people living in these apartments. One woman cried all day long, another lies on her floor moaning, and there is a guy next door to me who bangs his head on the wall all the time.”

“Well, me laddie,” says his mother, “I suggest you don’t associate with people like that.”

“Oh,” says Angus, “I don’t, Mum, I don’t. No, I just stay inside my apartment all day and night, playing me bagpipes.”

G@ylord did say ‘Anything’.

In the movie “Braveheart”, after King Edward I (played by Patrick McGoohan) conquered Scotland, he made the playing of bagpipes illegal because they were used to gather the clans for war

And where is the Banjo?

If you wanna hear good bagpipes, listen to AC/DC’s “It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ’n Roll)”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nULs4JW3tPI

The first time I saw a bagpipe, I thought it was an octopus wearing an LL Bean wool shirt.

The first time I heard a bagpipe, I thought an accordion had been run over by a calliope.

Ron Burgundy sez: “Well, that escalated quickly.”

In the right hands, and playing appropriate music, both instruments sound great. For accordions try Mexican or Zydeco. Bagpipes are great as part of a pipe and drum ensemble. There’s a particular group in Scotland that is fantastic and I would have included a link, but much to my dismay I can’t find it!

’Tain’t nuttin’ wrong wit da pipes, laddie!

geez…at this point is more SHOOT YOUR THUNDER AT ME BUT LEAVE MY EARS AND BRAIN ALONE COMPARED TO YOUR MUSIC!!! and let’s HOPE she never meet Jon from Garfield…

I guess I’m some kind of freakazoid. I like both accordion and bagpipes. And zither….

And now bagpipe jokes?………. I find this rather offensive. And I’ve got some Scottish ancestry.

Lol. Both of those instruments can be neat, but are rarely played well. (And often played poorly/used for jokes.)

Why do bagpipers always march while they play? To get away from that awful sound.

What is the difference between a bagpipe and an onion? No one cries when you cut up a bagpipe.