Droning On

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You've almost definitely heard of today's guest and almost as definitely heard his voice as well, whether you were looking for help to improve your piping, just starting your piping journey and seeking instruction, or possibly a really tasteful quote played from the soundboard at opportune moments on the Chanter Rant podcast... In any case, get ready to hear Andrew Douglas a lot more in this marathon interview pushing the 3hr line. If you need a break to go work on your tachums or something half way through, feel free to hit pause and come back, we'll still be here!

Tune into this episode to hear Andrew say, "...in this case spanking is referring to..."

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Genuinely, this group gets me into such a groove - I have not yet traveled every road in this world, but based upon those which I have traveled, The Freestylers of Piping are unique, singular, and so so groovy.

Tune into this episode to hear what happened when Perseus and Medusa decided to... "part"...

And here's a first: you can support the Freestylers and Droning On by buying The Freestylers of Piping merch on at BagpipeSwag.com! https://www.bagpipeswag.com/tfop

APPLICABLE LINKS Freestylers' website: http://www.thefreestylersofpiping.com/ - Their Insta: @thefreestylersofpiping - The Cultivator (music video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtkX5ivdOGI - The Keys of Justice (Rufus Harley): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIi1ftQVU6c - And, why not? That jazz album from H. John Benjamin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well,_I_Should_Have...

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Some people dedicate their whole life to one art, skill, craft, or area of research-focus. Steph has, somehow, managed to cram multiple whole-lives-of-focus into one and she's still not done! Having recently released, "The Beginner Years," the third in her series of excellent music-related, (often bagpipe/drum-specific,) books, we're excited to release this episode at the beginning of a new year. May 2023 be your most musical year yet, friend!

We'll be trying out a, "book club," reading of "The Beginner Years," from the release of this episode through to the end of February. If you'd like to join in, join us via email or social media (links below).

Tune into this episode to hear Jim turn a 3hr phone call with a genuine professional into a personal coaching session!

APPLICABLE LINKS

Check out all of Stephanie's books here: https://stephanieburns.com/my-books/

(also available on Amazon, Kindle, at book shops, pipeband supply shops, etc)

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Jeff has returned! You may well remember him from his excellent shortbread recipe and more in past episodes - today he's come back to share some background about & recordings of four familiar holiday tunes that fit on the pipes! Several of the recordings you'll hear in this episode are based on Timothy Cummings' settings in his holiday collection available here: https://birchenmusic.com/product/on-this-day-earth-shall-ring-printed-collection/

Tune into this episode to hear James misplace yet another Shakespeare quote!

The recording of Veni, Veni is from an arrangement my good buddy Scot, (also a past guest of the show,) did for organ to accompany pipes. It was interesting: we used a Bb chanter and tuned the bass drone up to C, so it came out in c-minor. There's a video of the performance, (from which we pulled the audio in this episode,) available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InlnMudvXJE

And if you liked that tune at the end of the episode, that's our take on, "Cornish Wassail," and you can listen to (and buy, if you so desire,) that track on BandCamp here: https://wassailiens.bandcamp.com/track/cornish-wassail-single

And you can be among the first to acquire Wassailiens merch here: https://www.bagpipeswag.com/wassailiens

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Bagpipes, bagpipe, bag, pipe, pipes, pipe, band, pipeband, Scottish, small, drone, droning, chanter, highland, christmas, holiday, yule, carol, carols, patapan, bring a torch, veni, come thou

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Katie's been entertaining and inspiring folk in and out of piping since she started her impressively fast-paced bagpipe journey. From busking to competing, to recently joining the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland: follow her on social media platforms, (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc) to see what's next @thewheeledpiper

Tune into this episode to hear Katie say, of learning to play bagpipes at school, "...it got me out of History which I didn't really enjoy very much..."

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Just for fun: a mega marathon of all past Holiday Episodes! If you're not into it, no sweat, the regularly scheduled episode will be out next week. To get one of these cool North Pole & District T-shirts at the special promo price of $15, just go to BagpipeSwag.com, there'll be a banner at the top of the site through the rest of December, 2022. Or go to this link. Thanks, Happy Holidays friends!

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The Chanter Rant guys have done a lot of terrible things, and a lot of awesome things. Among the latter is helping this man's philosophy, work ethic, strategizing, and handsome face come more fully into the awareness of the international competitive pipe band community.

Tune into this episode to hear Joe promise, on record, to never play Cajun Grace again...

Here's a link to Wake & District's website: https://www.raleighpipeband.com/ And, because it came up so often in the show, also MacLellan Bagpipes: https://www.raleighpipeband.com/

*Allow me to suggest following both on Instagram. Wake puts out great content, and it's a lot of fun to look through the progress photos of MacLellan's move-in to their new location. Not to mention the beautiful sets of pipes that get posted there regularly.

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Given his background in aviation one might assume that Dave's, "drone work," has to do with the kind that fly around in the sky - but no, Dave's been hard at work perfecting both design and production methodology to bring solid, reliable, good-sounding 3D printed GHB drones to the masses! Dave was recently featured in Big Rab's episode #299, (also, congrats to Rab on 300 - holy moly!) There's a link over to Rab's show down below.

Tune into this episode to hear David & James both do some terrible South Park voices!

APPLICABLE LINKS

Dave's Big Rab Interview (episode 299): https://www.thebigrabshow.com/copy-2-of-guests

Video of the sound sample played at the end of the episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K5ie4xaOZI

And, of course, Dave's website: https://www.3dprintedbagpipes.com/

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Tam O'Shanter is a popular poem, maybe especially around this time of year. I convinced my own padre to do a reading for the episode in English, and then got permission from Scots Hoose to use a really excellent pro-recording they had of Hamish MacDonald reading the poem in Scots. Not to mention: amazing musical score provided by Jeremy of the Wetootwaag Bagpipes & History Podcast. Check out the links below, and Happy Halloween!

Tune into this episode to hear how excellent this podcast would've been if my dad had decided to get into bagpipe-podcasting instead of me...

--Scots Hoose: http://www.scotshoose.com/ --The Scots Hoose Tam O'Shanter Graphic Novel-style video I mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAqVwCa_x5o --Wetootwaag's Halloween episode from this year: https://www.wetootwaag.com/

And, don't miss it, last chance to get the crazy low price on the limited run of shirts & mugs, buy before November 1st to be entered into the drawing... also because they won't exist anymore as of November 1st...

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PROMO: Month of October, 2022, only -- special edition of this shirt at crazy-cheap price: https://www.bagpipeswag.com/ (the mug too, but it only ships in the USA). Get one of those, tag @bagpipe.swag in a post wearing/using it, and you'll be entered into a drawing on November 1st for a $45 BagpipeSwag.com gift card!

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Laura has been living to entertain since she was tiny... she's still tiny, but ever since she was especially tiny - from dance routines and flutophones in her childhood to full-immersion fantasy theme park acting, song writing, and (of course) bagpiping today!

Tune into this episode to hear James interrupt Laura over and over and over again because he's inexplicably giddy about two people from the same small town knowing a bunch of the same people and places...

Here are some links to where you can get glimpses of Laura as, "Piper," at Evermore Park: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=piper+evermore+park https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNgF3G544l-dS75V-Ekml-Q And the helium in bagpipes video as well, of course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVO-d0eWooY&t=696s

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You can write-in to the show with comments, ideas, requests, etc. at [email protected]

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Bagpipes, bagpipe, bag, pipe, pipes, pipe, band, pipeband, Scottish, drone, droning, chanter, Evermore, Park