[Magdalen] More Clergy DWI

[sally.davies at gmail.com]

Oh heavens, I can just imagine, David!

Oddly enough this was my second bagpipe experrience in a few days though I
can't recall when I last heard the pipes.

St Andrew's College in Grahamstown, an Anglican school of fine tradition,
had some kind of anniversary celebration this weekend and we were there for
the horse riding. At our Saturday evening meal in a restaurant next to the
school fields, a piper started to play from somewhere up above the stands,
in the pitch dark. What an eerie sound especially in the night.

There's somethng about it that gets into the marrow of one's bones though.
Probably by now many of us have a bit of Scots somewhere in us, or perhaps
just an ancestral fear of them in battle array!!

Sally D


On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 at 04:21 Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> In a message dated 3/17/2015 5:42:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> sally.davies at gmail.com writes:
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> Hugh  comes from Scots stock and he had previously asked for a piper in
> tartan to  play him into and out of the church, very moving (and  loud,
> inside!)>>>>
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> Saint Mark's Cathedral in Minneapolis, MN USA has an annual
> Saint Andrew's Day, with a whole troop of bagpipers in that
> highly reverberant space - stone vaults are 75' and the building
> is about 200' long.
>
> It is absolute bedlam.
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> David Strang.
>