[Magdalen] More Clergy DWI

[Jay Weigel]

We had a piper at our church in Tennessee on the occasion of the 300th
anniversary of the consecration of Samuel Seabury by the Scottish bishops,
which I have always privately thought the Scots looked on as another
opportunity to stick it to the Brits. The piper came into the back of the
church after most of the congregation was seated, so they weren't aware of
him, and when the first notes came out there was considerable shock and
surprise, though mostly positive, especially among the kids. That church
has excellent acoustics and is highly reverberant, so you can imagine......

My youngest grandson is heavily Scottish on his mother's side and Puerto
Rican on his father's. When he was a little tyke my daughter commented that
"he smiles at the pipes and boogies to Tito Puente." Both her boys are
enthusiastic about the yearly Highland festival and games that take place
in the area where they live.

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:51 AM, <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 3/17/2015 5:42:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> > sally.davies at gmail.com writes:
> >
> >
> > 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!)>>>>
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > David Strang.
> >
>