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[OC Richard]

I'm back playing with a pipe band (the same one that got me started playing pipes almost exactly 50 years ago)

How cool! Congratulations!

I got my first set of pipes in 1975 so yes we're both 50 years on.

Offtopic, I started playing with a band around 76 or 77. Just prior to the time I joined they adopted a casual uniform for competition (Balmoral bonnets, waistcoats, and plain sporrans, hose, and shoes) but still wore Full Dress for gigs.

Sadly that band ceased in the 1980s.

[DCampbell16B]

We wear just a shirt with the kilt in the warm summer time.
But we still have the full dress uniforms with tunics, plaids and feather bonnets for the cold weather.
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Scranton, Pennsylvania this last St. Patrick's Day. Cold, but not "too" windy.
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The parade before that on 1 March 2025 in Binghamton, New York was my first one in decades. Temperature was 32F/0C with 30 mile an hour wind. It was just too windy to wear the feather bonnets. I had fingerless gloves with handwarmers inside. I made it the whole way, but my playing was pretty awful.
Anyway, the sporran only holds my drivers license and a credit card, and keys if I jam them in. It turns out my tunic is one of those that doesn't have pockets. I don't know who made them, but at least they are warm.
But we are getting pretty far afield from the original post...