Dumb mistakes you've made as a piper

[BagpiperDon]

cajuncelt, this might be one of those 'don't ask/don't tell' sort of things

[cajuncelt]

cajuncelt, this might be one of those 'don't ask/don't tell' sort of things

Lol. Definitely. I revealed VERY little of the dumb piping stuff I've pulled.

[BagpiperDon]

Lol. Definitely. I revealed VERY little of the dumb piping stuff I've pulled.

Depending on who I'm with -- that is, if they can laugh with me -- I'll talk. But more than this sort of material, I think about the screwed-up humorous stuff I've encountered -- might compile a book on that some day, or maybe make a website that GHB'ers can post to ... if its a book of personal accounts I already know the title.

[SteveB]

Not even a Piper yet, and already pulled off a good dumb one.
On Sundays I teach a religious education group of 1st and 2nd grade students. I have obtained pipe score for many of the hymns used in the children's services. On Sunday I usually take along my poly practice chanter, and play whilst my pupils sing. I get in some practice and they are delighted to be the only class that has an instrumental accompaniment. I have just started learning to tune my drones and the huff and squeeze with a Tiger Woods chanter reed. I have been corking the drones and goosing my pipe chanter for some learning, but had not tried both the drones and the chanter and tune all together.
A recent Sunday was a group event with a small march of the students in their Samhain (Halloween) costumes. Knowing that my Blackwood practice chanter and heavy reed carry a large presence, I would bring it on this day. It usually lives in my Pipe bag. So come Sunday morning I rush out the door with my pipe bag and head to Church. As it is about time to start the march, I open my pipe bag to discover that I had left the practice chanter at home, and had only the GHB. I stepped out to the parking lot and tuned the pipes and chanter. I then led the RE students on the march from the Parish Hall to the Church and through the sanctuary on the full pipes, just waiting for some novel sound to erupt from my novice playing. I made it all the way back to the Parish Hall before my first squeek. I found out the easy way that you do not have to be long going under a door jamb top have the bass drone cut out. That is my first time playing the full pipes.

I now leave a bright red paper clamp on the pipe case strap when the practice chanter is not in it.