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In the Forum: Audio Discussions
In the Thread: Kitties go to London
Post Subject: Scotland and MusicPosted by Romy the Cat on: 9/12/2013
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 JJ Triode wrote:
You mentioned bagpipes--do you think any bagpipe or other Celtic music can be of serious interest?  I don't necessarily mean audio interest, but music/cultural interest.
JJ, I have no idea. Amy loves bagpipes and she actively solicited ways to hear them. We did not catch any good bagpipes play during out trip and as little as we heard bagpipes during the trip was very bad playing. I am less optimistic in my love of bagpipes and with very little exception I find them annoying.  The little exception comes from very idiosyncratic nasal tone and very creative playing – I heard it a few times well done here in US.
About Celtic music and bagpipes having “serious” interest?  I do not find it to be interesting but I can only relate to myself and in this connotation I substitute “serious” with “personal”. I very much presume that if a person has some rooting and some familiarity with Celtic culture then she or he might find own “serious” in Celtic music. I personally do not but it means very little for those who do.

I have to admit that Scotland scenery are not very much suitable for the music we played. We blasted at full volume Mahler Resurrection riding over the mounts of Isle of Skye. It was interning but it was clear disassociation of viewable and auditable in my view. It was much better when we switch to Bruckner and were crossing the Glen Coe valley. We hit the valley at sunset as the Sun was just bursting right across the valley, lighting up the mounts like candles. It was “better” but it was not the perfect match as Scotland just pretty to the contrast of Bruckner that in my view requires more monumental and more colossal scenery. Mendelssohn composed his 3rd Symphony and Hebrides overture that probably would be the right music for the surrounding.

I need to admit that I was not a fully tuned to any music as my years were constantly pierced by Amy’s screaming. She was sitting at the dangers side of the car (British driving) and I drove in some cases like a maniac – so we had more “the conversations” then actually we listened music... :-) She is very impressible driver, like all women are but she has something that saves her sweet ass – she is a phenomenal navigator. She has some “things” with maps and with knowing where the things are located. Very freaky at first but very useable…

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