OT Bagpipes was "To all colleagues"

[Richard Moody]

>
> >Who thought of using a retired animal's liquids chamber to make
music
> >with, that's what I'd like to know.
> >
> >Bill Ballard RPT
>

When sheep get into alfalfa they bloat up and die unless the
shepherd gets there in time and sticks them in the right place
with a knife.  The air whistles out rather loudly sometimes
producing a musical note even, like a steam kettle and for longer
than you'd think.   Someone who needed an air supply to power two
or three reed pipes got an idea.  So the next time they
butchered.........  But I think they would have used cow's
insides.  Maybe bag pipes predates the domestication of
bovines.....
They are "reed instruments" aren't they---the pipes of bag pipes?

---ric  the c stands for "crude and unusual---ways to make musical
instruments"