I really love solo bagpipes, and pipes accompanying other instruments or singers, but massed pipe bands . . . not so much.
Best regards,
Jake
I like massed pipe bands when there's more then 8 bands (i.e. Loch Norman Games always has an incredible massed bands.) For those standing out of the center of 300+ pipers, it is loud. When you stand where I normally stand which is of course in the center and surrounded on all sides by pipers, it is enveloping.
The sound of the drones almost holds you in a sense.
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