EU to pipers - Pipe down

[O'Neille]

Ahhh, but there are musicians earplugs that you can wear while tuning and playing. Surefire sonic defenders are all that would be required.

[Beertigger]

Ahhh, but there are musicians earplugs that you can wear while tuning and playing. Surefire sonic defenders are all that would be required.

Not only that, but surely even a terrible piper can manage to be somewhat in tune after 15 minutes?

I've found tuning w/ earplugs difficult, but playing - not so much. It takes some getting used to, but it's certainly possible. I'm not a piper, but I don't think that they're such a special instrument that what's easy enough while singing and playing anything else can't be done.

Losing your hearing, tinnitus, etc isn't something to trifle w/

Eh, what's that?......

[SteveB]

This sounds like another gouvernment pogrom to effect a solution that is far worse than the problem it is intended to solve.

[sharpdressedscot]

Blowing it out of proportion?

[thanmuwa]

This sounds like another gouvernment pogrom to effect a solution that is far worse than the problem it is intended to solve.

How would the solution
(ie preserving the hearing of potentially large numbers of people who have to work in noisy environments along with a minute chance of requiring a small handful of pipers to have 5 minutes more of a break)

be worse than the problem
(large numbers of people having hearing problems eg tinnitus or going deaf)?

[Beertigger]

This sounds like another gouvernment pogrom to effect a solution that is far worse than the problem it is intended to solve.

No pun intended, I hope? ;)