Bagpipes provoked Olympic alarm

**katmills2005** · 27th August 08, 06:15 AM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/s...nd/7583876.stm

Well, bagpipes are considered a weapon of war.

**george7** · 27th August 08, 06:24 AM

I usually tell security what's in the bag, before my bagpipes go through the xray. The first time, when I didn't warn them, they started giving each other looks and it was almost a minute before they asked me.

**Coemgen** · 27th August 08, 01:51 PM

That's pretty hilarious.

**beloitpiper** · 27th August 08, 02:04 PM

Awesome! I love the power pipe wield.

**Packhound** · 27th August 08, 03:11 PM

What did they think the pipes were, a weapon of mass destruction?

**TheKiltedWonder** · 27th August 08, 03:36 PM

I'm not surprised! He said he's not so good; few things are as bad as poorly played/tuned as pipes...the poor policemen

**Carolina Kiltman** · 27th August 08, 04:43 PM

And to think, without the drones, they would "sound nae better than an ordinary pianna"

**Jack Daw** · 27th August 08, 09:18 PM

Some pipers should be arrested.

I've taken my pipes through airport security many times and lived to tell the tale. In a way, it sort of concerns me that, with the brass sleaving I have in the drones, I have been questioned about only about half the time after the pipes go through X-ray.

**SteveB** · 27th August 08, 09:51 PM

Mr Aitken said he wasn't so good on the pipes and chose to practice on his own. I am now just starting to learn on the chanter and expect to be practicing on the chanter for quite some time before getting a set of pipes. I have heard some very outstanding pipers. I know I will never equal them in the quality of their music. I will always be one that is not so good. I will have aged out before I will be able to play as well as many of the pipers I have heard in competition at various games and festivals, for they are younger and took an earlier start to the pipes and will always have greater experience than I.
This comes to mind as my neighbour, who is a lead piper in a local band, is really great sounding, and his mates put on a great show and play rather well. One of his band mates said "I play the pipes well, but not so well as John" (my Neighbour) I see myself in that not so well class.
Slainte

**george7** · 27th August 08, 10:16 PM

Originally Posted by Jack Daw

Some pipers should be arrested.

I've taken my pipes through airport security many times and lived to tell the tale. In a way, it sort of concerns me that, with the brass sleaving I have in the drones, I have been questioned about only about half the time after the pipes go through X-ray.

You play Dunfions?