A Visit to the Peoples Palace

[Jimmy]

Great pictures! I love Glasgow. As far as the piper... LOL.. So yeah his playing posture is certainly not quite right.. Middle tenor drone is to far apart from the base and yes the pipe bag is to far forward on the arm.. Could be that his blow pipe is too short. That is often the cause.
But sadly tourist spots all over Scotland are brimming with dreadful pipers! And it's these guys that make people hate the pipes! Out of tune, no sense of tempo, horrid figuring.
It is quite sad..

As an individual who does not have an ear for music and really regrets being unable to play any instrument and also believes that the individuals who have this talent are so lucky, when I passed this piper he was merrily playing some, well to me, excellent tune on the bagpipes, I cant remember what it was but I thought he was very tuneful and a decent piper. But then I am no expert and certainly would not have been able to acknowledge that his posture was not right.
I admire the ability of our members to notice this, again I would love to have some musical ability.

[chrisupyonder]

Thanks for the photo's Jimmy. Glasgow has a lot to offer. I was there years ago for 2 weeks installing computer servers in banks. The full Scottish breakfsts in the hotels were out of this world. Great pictures.

Chris.