OT Bagpipes was "To all colleagues"

[Frances Helms]

Of course, when they were butchering, you have to think of which animal was most in supply, sheep or cows.  Well, you don't have to, but you could.
Fran Helms

"Richard Moody" <remoody@midstatesd.net> wrote:

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>> >Who thought of using a retired animal's liquids chamber to make
>music
>> >with, that's what I'd like to know.
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>> >Bill Ballard RPT
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>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?
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>---ric  the c stands for "crude and unusual---ways to make musical
>instruments"
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