Comments on: Protesters Find New Medium: Bagpipes

By: ecalvavia

ecalvavia — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:45:41 +0000

Too bad they didn’t carriy trumpets!
As a piper myself;
I think people should mind their own business and leave each other alone.
Too bad they mimicked a proud tradition through to call attention to themselves and their foolish bigotry.
They are disgraceful.
I really can’t understand what sort of pipe band would have anything to do with this sort of thing. Certainly the ones in Mass would not be interested..but oh yea we have gay marrage!! HA HA The sky has not fallen and God has not struck anyone down yet!
I’ll have to ask around to see if anyone has played at a gay marriage..I think after our last parade someone on the band bus mentioned that a couple weeks ago they did play a wedding where the people were gay. Nobody really raised any questions about the gayness but asked where it was held, how long, and what tunes they played.

By: Quincy Brown

Quincy Brown — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:34:33 +0000

I disagree with the notion that bagpipes are “Archaic” as stated in the article. Perhaps in the past, but in the last 15 years or so, many bagpipes have become quite progressive, some being used for Techno and Progressive Rock Bands. The music they are play are more than the old standby “Scotland the Brave” and “Amazing Grace.”

I do agree that not unlike the Shriners who use to use them in parades, these bagpipers are probably using them wronly, and probably sounded like crap. I hate that. Bagpipes should be used as music instruments, not try to reinforce an foregone idea that pipes sound bad, as so many Americans think they should from groups like the Shriners and this silly Anti-Gay Group.

By: Erik L.

Erik L. — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:52:35 +0000

I was born in the People’s Toilet of Berkeley, and I play the bagpipes… yet I never once had the desire to protest with them. They’re using it purely as an attention-getter and I bet the piper sucked!