Helping out a friend

[MacMillans son]

He ran the kilt prices by the director and if the costumer doesn't find anything in the next 48 hours, we are going to go with one of the one's you suggested.

That leaves the next problem. How to we make these faux bag pipes?

Hmmm...do we have any MacGyvers on this site??

[auld argonian]

Dummy pipes? Get thee to the Home Depot and cobble together a ship-load of PVC pipe and fittings and get the black spray paint out...attaching them to a bag ought to be relatively simple.

...sounds like the good old days...what we used to call "TBS" (Theatrical Busy-work Sh*t)...figuring out how to get props and set pieces that were out of the budget. It's theatre...remember the bit about suspending disbelief?

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,
Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels,
Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire
Crouch for employment. But pardon, and gentles all,
The flat unraised spirits that have dared
On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
So great an object: can this cockpit hold
The vasty fields of France? or may we cram
Within this wooden O the very casques
That did affright the air at Agincourt?
O, pardon! since a crooked figure may
Attest in little place a million;
And let us, ciphers to this great accompt,
On your imaginary forces work.
Suppose within the girdle of these walls
Are now confined two mighty monarchies,
Whose high upreared and abutting fronts
The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder:
Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts;
Into a thousand parts divide on man,
And make imaginary puissance;
Think when we talk of horses, that you see them
Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth;
For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings,
Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times,
Turning the accomplishment of many years
Into an hour-glass: for the which supply,
Admit me Chorus to this history;
Who prologue-like your humble patience pray,
Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.
[Exit]

Best

AA

[Kaw-Liga]

Hmmm...do we have any MacGyvers on this site??

Bag - use upholstery vinyl - stuffed with an old football and some foam rubber. You might find a used BAG style purse at thrift or re-sale shop.

Drones - and Chanter - plastic flutes (the ones that are blow into the end - like a clarinet) Music shop or toy department - toys are cheaper. These come in different sizes (lengths) Cover tuning holes of the drones with tape or shrink tubing. If you can't get enough different lengths - cut section out of longer flutes and glue back together.

Fabric department at Wal-Mart (at least locally) has varieties of drapery ties that would make tassels for the drones.

Huff & Puff - blow tube - rubber surgical tubing and a pipe stem.

Kaw-Liga

My advice is free, and possibly overpriced.