![]() ![]() We each bring our own experiences and opinions. “Hey, did you hear about that Indian piper?” It’s like sitting down in a virtual pub with other pipers and chatting it up. We all many not always agree, but I value everyone’s opinions and enjoy the banter. ![]() But that doesn’t mean we can’t still hold meaningful conversations here. Has participation declined due to the natural draw of new technology? Sure. If all we were doing were taking about Champion drone reeds or only taking about 1970s pipe band competition, I’d be concerned, but we’re discussing issues of the day. As for “relevance”, it is driven by content. BDF is where I continue to choose to have my bagpiping discussions as I like many of the features here that one doesn’t have on Facebook. She could only manage to get a mere sixty per cent in her class twelfth board exams, but she has. I’ve been sharing articles that I find interesting here for nearly 20 years-it has nothing to do with stirring up anything. But she wasn't equally good at academics. This entire thread is based on a flimsy effort (once again) to stir up activity on a declining forum that no longer provides much relevance.Doug, I find your comment ironic. What an incredibly inane accusation to throw out. All may make their contribution and commentary, and perhaps, as that Americanism goes, "it's all good!" There are arch traditionalists and camp-followers, too. And every sort of variation and digression and tangents. And there are iconoclasts and camp-followers. There is taste, and preference, and adherence to tradition. Art critics who do not paint or sculpt, and literary experts who do not write novels. Well, there are informative restaurant critics who cannot cook, and great scholars of the opera who cannot sing. ![]() Though maybe her real crime is to find an actual audience for her music.Īs for "real bagpiping", you don't get to make that comment until you can do better. It's difficult to tell what exactly it is about Archy that causes a certain type of person, often a Facebooker, to break out in puce-faced horror, but it's noticeable these people seem to have a lot less to say about pipers who are not female, Indian, playing electronic instruments (or who are good musicians, for that matter). As usual the misogyny is causing ripples beneath the surface. ![]()
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