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    Gotta say, I liked the bagpipe bit in the funeral y'day. That was actually quite poignant and emotional. Would've been, for whoever it was, wherever.

    Then, very quickly spoilt - utterly - by the borderline Munsters/Addams Family-like organ that came on immediately after; All grim, out of key and cacophonic. lol

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    • My wife said she got emotional at that bit too. She said that must have come from spending too many years in Scotland. (Originally from South London)PhanLo
    • lol, yepfadein11
    • Bag pipes, fascinating instrument, you've got to constantly maintain the pressure in the bag.shapesalad
    • lol at the organ I mean, I watched with my elderly mum and we both did that glance at each other when it kicked in.fadein11
    • Organs are amazing to hear in person, pretty much the sole reason I started going back to church. That and the granny made biccy wiccies afterwards.shapesalad
    • Organs can of course be great, it may have been nerves but it was out of key early on and v.noticeable after the lovely bagpipes*fadein11
    • *first time I have ever said lovely bagpipesfadein11
    • Strange that bagpipes were used to induce fear before a massacre, they sound like a sheep being strangled.PhanLo
    • Who dieddrgs
    • Years ago, at a friend's funeral, a traditional song, sung in chorus by all of us who were there... More... Violins!! I still shiver :'(OBBTKN
    • Oh, to have been a fly on the wall in the PhanLo household y'day!Nairn
    • I think i would like bagpipes more if they wrote more than one songscarabin
    • ^ lol. I don't mind the 'pipes but I wonder if it's a bit of Hollywood conditioning too, like Kurt Russell's funeral in Backdraft. Always gets ya.MrT
    • They sound like a dial-up modem having trouble connectingscarabin
    • Yes. The lone piper. That bit nearly got me too. I think I have a live for bagpipes in my blood. My great grandfather was a piper in WWII...microkorg
    • ...first out of the trenches before the advancing troops walking across a battlefield towards the enemy playing pipes. Balls!microkorg
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