Woke up yesterday to the sound of bagpipes outside my window.
Friday night, out and about on Baker, off work early, and there are two "troops" or "regiments" or whatever they're called, 8 or 10 per regiment, walking up and down the street. A treat for those inclined to dine on the Patio. So I wasn't so surprised to hear them again outside my window.
And, soon enough, more joined him and he had a full on ensemble going.
Now this is the thing. I like bagpipes, not so much that I'd learn to play, but the sound raises a certain Nostalgia in me, and I always feel I have to stand and salute when they're passing. Probably some Legion associations there, but anyways...
One bagpipes sounds like bagpipes. More just sounds like more. Like a "gathering" of bagpipes, it doesn't lend itself to melody or harmony or any of that, or - in any meaningful way, make it louder, or cacophonous, it just sounds like "more". A drummer, maybe, to set the beat, that would be good, or a flautist skipping along ahead to be first shot over the hill, but more bagpipes is just more bagpipes and we don't need more bagpipes.
One was enough, thank-you-very much.