Bagpipes are deployed in service of sounds you've probably never attributed to bagpipes before, punctuating snippets of voiceover recollection.
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Unfortunately for Wallis, he's also prone to playing the bagpipes.
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"Jebem ti gajde" which translates to "I fuck your bagpipes".
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Of course, it's not true; it might instead be bagpipes.
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Bagpipes will play, and traditional Sioux war songs will be sung.
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There are bands, people dressed as leprechauns and tons of bagpipes.
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Kilt-wearing police officers marched happily through the crowd, blasting bagpipes.
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After Indian drumming and dancing, "Amazing Grace" was played on bagpipes.
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"I've got bagpipes, a baby crying and bombs going off," explained Depp.
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You remember blue paint, long hair, and the faint sound of bagpipes.
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Beethoven, bagpipes, Chuck Berry, gamelan music, and the blues washed over us.
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Protestors screamed and reporters swarmed; the bagpipes brayed and the gawkers gawked.
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Doctors took samples from his bagpipes and found six species of fungi.
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When the bagpipes cease and the hearse moves on, they return home.
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There was grief again, and the mournful sound of bagpipes echoed again.
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Hundreds of people turned out, marched down the main street candlelight vigil, bagpipes.
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So, I had to fire up YouTube to get my bracing bagpipes fix.
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The only red flag was his hobby: The man played bagpipes every day.
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Judge John Hodgman Liz writes: My fiancé is interested in learning the bagpipes.
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Like so many rousing military celebrations, Kate Millett's memorial service began with bagpipes.
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Bagpipes sounded from the far end of the green to signal the procession.
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And it became a spectacle, when Barr entered from behind a curtain playing bagpipes.
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Luigi, drunk on his brandy, picks up the bagpipes and starts to serenade them.
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The Queen starts every weekday by listening to bagpipes played by Her Majesty's kilted piper.
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Fans of the trumpet, recorder, trombone and bagpipes are sure to love this jazzy version.
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The wedding reportedly will be Scottish-themed, complete with whiskey and bagpipes, Daily Mail reports.
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Celtic customs are also embedded in Galician culture (the bagpipes in parliament are just the start).
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He's carted away to the sounds of bagpipes, which are banned in Scotland at that time.
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That's why you have the Arabic sounds, the bagpipes and the Irish instruments throughout the score.
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And even if I were to rule against him, playing the bagpipes is its own punishment.
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This ceremony, a doctoral convocation for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, opened with bagpipes.
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She was leathern and bloated, the offspring of a set of bagpipes and a medicine ball.
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A mess of galloping horses, billowing nightgowns and blaring bagpipes, the movie earned five Oscar nominations.
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Since it was posted online, the bagpipes video has been viewed and shared thousands of times.
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Bagpipes are a surprisingly key part of cultural life and hint at the region's distinctive Celtic heritage.
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"I saw all the bagpipes," she announces to the camera at the end of the group date.
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"People who start out on bagpipes are like baby turtles going out into the ocean," Green said.
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It features a flag-raising, the national anthem, a wreath-laying on the water, bagpipes and taps.
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The day's programming was heavy on country music, "God Bless America," and a hefty number of bagpipes.
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He went on to say that he then countered the "plot" by planning to play the bagpipes himself.
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On Opposites, if we could think of something we got it: there were tap dancers, mariachi bands, bagpipes.
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Then he started playing bagpipes and these two high school girls in Scottish regalia come out with him.
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The English don't help themselves: they banned bagpipes from stadiums when hosting the Rugby World Cup in 2015.
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Others elements are less obvious and more intimate, such as the set of bagpipes played by her father.
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The case is the first reported death from the lung disease possibly caused by fungal exposure in bagpipes.
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But he did play his beloved bagpipes every day, despite having trouble breathing because of his inflamed lungs.
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It seems that yeast, mold, and other microbes really flourish in the moist environment provided by the bagpipes.
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There's only one thing that can make this glorious day better, and that's the subtle sounds of bagpipes.
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Presto and Zesto set off to find the perfect gift, a set of bagpipes from a Limboland monster.
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The new regulations also required permits for products made from the wood, including guitars, violins, bagpipes and xylophones.
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"The work is done," he told reporters over the din of bagpipes at the St. Patrick's Day Parade.
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A 68-year-old Scottish woman knows exactly what makes a cover of any Drake song pop — bagpipes.
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She loved all music whether it was listening to Ariana or playing the bagpipes with her pipe band.
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It shows Gilbert Kerr, who was part of the trip, playing the bagpipes while standing beside a penguin.
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All funds coming in now go towards bagpipes and other things that will help Donald Trump sleep at night.
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Bagpipes and drums played as Caprio&aposs flag-draped casket was carried ot of the church toward the hearse.
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After Wednesday's service, police and firefighters helped escort the caskets out of the church to the sound of bagpipes.
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They could go to Mars, and I'll still use the penny whistle or the uilleann bagpipes or the fiddle.
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By 2012, Mr. Barr had been semiretired for three years, serving on corporate boards, traveling and playing the bagpipes.
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And since "Auld Lang Syne" is a thoroughly Scottish work, the bagpipes are just a nice culturally accurate touch.
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He was an oddball who played pibroch, ancient Celtic bagpipes that predate musical notation and are taught by voice.
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In the video, barks and bagpipes can be heard, and later, "Taps" plays over a sea of salutes from officers.
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After the show was canceled in 1949, he hit the theater circuit, playing the bagpipes and doing stand-up comedy.
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And, no, it wasn't just a onetime thing, in college, where he mistook a set of bagpipes for a bong.
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Drone has appeared in traditional folk music around the world for centuries, from the tanpura, an Indian instrument, to Scottish bagpipes.
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Sialkot also diversified into manufacturing bagpipes, and is now the biggest centre in the world outside Scotland that produces the instrument.
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The tunes are often traditional folk numbers, played on fiddles, the piano, the accordion and the clarsach (bagpipes) in cosy pubs.
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During his stay in the hospital, doctors examined his bagpipes and took samples from the bag, neck and chanter reed protector.
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Eilidh MacLeod, age 28 The Scottish schoolgirl loved music, from listening to Ariana Grande to playing the bagpipes with her band.
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I've seen pictures of him, ten years old, wearing a Balmoral bonnet, a kilt, a doublet, big bagpipes on his shoulder.
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Her brothers, Sandy and James McIntryre, escorted her; Sandy, who would later lead a recessional while playing bagpipes, wore a kilt.
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Advantage: Bagpipes Low-budget, and relatively low melodrama, this faithful 1971 BBC mini-series again stars Glenda Jackson as Queen Elizabeth.
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Iron Mountain's Celtic proggy post-rock was unexpectedly engaging; they kicked up a good aul groove, and those bagpipes were wicked.
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Timothy Kipp recorded a video as his brother, standing next to the vehicle, played "Amazing Grace" and "Taps" on the bagpipes.
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It's just got some serious discomfort from the various things caught deep inside its butt, including an entire set of bagpipes.
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There's also the steely Jackie, who insists on an elaborate public funeral procession with bagpipes and visiting witnesses to her bereavement.
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Some of the band's music using reel-to-reel tape recorders sounds a bit like bagpipes mashed up with echoing electro influences.
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Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's former spin-doctor, took to the seafront in Brighton to blast out "Ode to Joy" on the bagpipes.
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Stomachs full and bodies hydrated, the musicians tune the reeds on their bagpipes and weave through the restaurant's tables to warm up.
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By rights, it shouldn't work—bagpipes rarely do—but the ground its on is so rich that, somehow, it all comes together.
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The festival, complete with bagpipes and kilts and filled with competitive events like drumming and dancing, celebrates both Scottish and Gaelic culture.
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Everything else snowballed over the years, and I kept adding new elements to the act—like making the bagpipes start shooting fire.
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There was a weird moment where an Apple fan showed up and played the bagpipes and it was all very somber, very surreal.
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Though they still rely on the beloved bagpipes and fiddles, they add reverb, synth and crystalliser pedals to loop effects and create depth.
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VIDEO:Before delivering remarks this morning to a gathering of U.S. attorneys at the Justice Department, Attorney General William Barr played the bagpipes: pic.twitter.
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Rustic percussion accents added wildness to some dances; the nasal drone of a musette, a French type of bagpipes, colored the pastoral scene.
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The LA-born real estate developer loved posing with high-ranking cops, and once arranged to have police bagpipes played at a party.
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Watch the bagpipes performance for yourself so you'll understand why this is episode in the top three, and also Lisa Kudrow's favorite episode.
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" Brian O'Dwyer, the parade's grand marshal, also noted: "We don't want to march past St. Patrick's Cathedral and disrupt things with our bagpipes.
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Judge John Hodgman Liz writes: In 2016, I wrote for advice on how to deal with my fiancé's desire to learn the bagpipes.
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I like to play bagpipes in the nude and then decorate my walls with thorny brambles for unsuspecting guests to accidentally brush against.
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His final Mass at Holy Cross ended with a standing ovation and an accompaniment of bagpipes and drums from the city's Sanitation Department.
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Soon more requests come for Andrew to try new endeavors — the tennis team, the newspaper, a French film club, playing the bagpipes, Spanish classes.
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And she's showing her devotion with hilarious, unusual Vine covers of his music, featuring a lot of bagpipes and her impeccable Scottish accent and.
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Coincidentally, the only time his symptoms improved during those seven years was when he spent three months in Australia and left his bagpipes behind.
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Glasgow International Piping Festival have recorded a helpful video at the National Piping Centre to show musicians how to properly clean their bagpipes.[Thorax]
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This one regiment spun me out because it was all Sikh dudes carrying union jacks and playing bagpipes, as part of the British army.
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No visitors are allowed inside a local nursing home in Avon Lake, Ohio, so he marched around outside playing traditional songs on his bagpipes.
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None of those things are Irish: tartans and bagpipes are Scottish and everyone knows that Stonehenge was built by aliens in an English field.
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The sculpture's return was heralded by a Port Authority police honor guard, bagpipes and short speeches from the authority's chief executive and other officials.
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Here's how it happened: Following warm-ups and the ceremonial blaring of bagpipes (curling is a Scottish game), both teams have hit the ice.
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Critics are warning moviegoers not to see Dolittle because there's a scene where Robert Downey Jr. pulls bagpipes out of a constipated dragon's butthole.
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"To try and do that when you've got sitars and bagpipes and banjos — a lot of these instruments weren't designed to work together," Jeffery said.
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Washington (CNN)Attorney General William Barr took a beat during a conference at the Justice Department Wednesday to flash his ability to play the bagpipes.
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The sound of bagpipes resounded through the neighborhood, and residents poked their heads out of their windows and assembled along the edges of the service.
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I even recall being serenaded at one anchorage by a man in a kilt playing bagpipes as he stood on the bow of his boat.
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As any deep dive into Irish-America, the diaspora of nearly 35 million citizens, will reveal, it wasn't all blarney and bagpipes for these exiles.
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To get the passengers and crew of an aircraft under your control, all you really need is bagpipes, and the plausible threat you might blow them.
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The red and white tent of its nationalist allies blares out the peppery strains of Turkish bagpipes to Instanbulus who turn their shoulders and walk by.
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One of the men, thought to be neo-Nazi James L. "Jimmy" Marr, was also loudly playing bagpipes (a Marr trademark) outside of the Lucky Lab.
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This magazine has located five individuals who attest that Barr, who has come under fire for his SparkNotes summary of the Mueller report, plays the bagpipes.
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As bagpipes played and cameras flashed, the couple walked in just before Prince William and his wife, Kate, and took their seats a row behind them.
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The memorial was an homage to the cultural diversity of the city, with speeches in both English and Spanish and bagpipes played alongside a mariachi band.
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He plays bagpipes in a band but mostly avoids public places and the people in them, an aversion that began about the time of his injury.
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One of the men, thought to be neo-Nazi James L. "Jimmy" Marr, was also loudly playing bagpipes (a Marr trademark) outside of the Lucky Lab.
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Dozens of officers and emergency responders lined up to salute the fallen detective outside the hospital as his body left the facility,"Amazing Grace" wailing on bagpipes.
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The origins of queimada can be traced back to the region's Celtic roots, which manifest in everything from Galicians' relatively fair complexions to their fondness for bagpipes.
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Riddled with voodoo tattoos, and in lieu of bagpipes, the young Scot was keen on playing the khaen, a Thai/Laotian woodwind instrument made out of bamboo.
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The man played the bagpipes daily as a hobby, but left his instrument at home for a three-month stay in Australia, during which his symptoms disappeared.
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In the final sequence of the ceremony, Russian opera singer Aida Garifullina performed Russian folk song "Kalinka" accompanied by bagpipes, a children's choir, and a percussion section.
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And also Celtic music, the bagpipes and fiddle, this beautiful folk music, they all contribute to Nova Scotia being a great place to learn and play music.
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Products fulfilled by Huboo already span items such as vitamins, CBD oils, headphones, bingo tickets, electronic bagpipes, antiques, coffee, electronics, clothes (new and used) and beauty products.
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Cady Coleman amused herself by playing her flute on the International Space Station—another astronaut brought his bagpipes—but future travelers might instead pick up a Telemetron.
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J.D. captured this group photo (note: Jonathan with his own set of bagpipes) of the crew before takeoff, warning those across the pond that the Scotts were coming.
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For the 12 of you who love the sound of bagpipes, you can get a full breakdown of how XenonJohn built this bot over on his Instructables page.
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" But no matter where Claire or Jamie venture to, McCreary promises, "the bagpipes and the Scottish and Celtic musical influence is very much rooted in Jamie and Claire.
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For every venison steak and langoustine, there are battered pizzas and deep-fried Mars bars, devoured by novelty-seeking tourists as they listen to bagpipes outside Edinburgh Castle.
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The silent honor guard stands watch over the flag-draped casket, as the mournful sound of bagpipes fills the air and inconsolable "tough guys" sob in the back row.
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Kinan Azmeh's "Ibn Arabi Postlude" was six languid minutes; Edward Perez's cloying Spanish arrangements, "Latina 6/8 Suite," got a dose of aggressive merriment from Cristina Pato's Galician bagpipes.
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But the truth of the matter is simpler than that: Dolittle is a real movie where Robert Downey Jr. plucks a set of bagpipes out of a dragon's butt.
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Eminem dragged Carey on songs over the years and Cannon got involved in 2009 after Eminem released "Bagpipes from Baghdad" on which he took a swipe at the couple.
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Somehow, my wife and I matched on eHarmony a week later after she saw 'playing bagpipes and riding a unicycle' listed on my profile and realized it was me.
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"Chris recently moved to Virginia Beach and immediately joined the band after learning how to play the bagpipes from our friends in the Greater Richmond Pipes & Drums," the post said.
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Our previous two records had violins and bagpipes and all this shit we couldn't possibly afford to cart around America, so I wanted to be more faithful to real life.
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One is left to imagine a Stanley Cup-style celebration, topping the Grand Quaich with some grand whisky and passing it around among new members, bagpipes wailing in the background.
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In "Echoes of the Glenn of Tranquility," you hear Diehl's piano evoke both banjo picking, common in Kentucky bluegrass music, and bagpipes, a traditional wind instrument that is played in Scotland.
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At various points, the trills, tremolos, dynamic swells and flickers of melody that emerged over the steady drone of the bagpipes meshed into colorful surges that did indeed evoke wind chimes.
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Inspired by the title object, a flailing inflatable tube man, Jimmy McGill starts dancing—wearing brightly colored suits, flashy ties, playing the bagpipes in the office, purchasing an expensive (and loud) juicer.
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The wedding dinner is rumored to be Scottish-themed, complete with haggis and Scottish lamb on the menu, along with whiskey, bagpipes and a flyover by Spitfire fighter aircraft, the PA reported.
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Nancy Drew, the girl detective who could pick a lock, play the bagpipes, tap Morse Code in high heels and drive her blue roadster like a Daytona champ, turns 21995 next year.
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The region—a misty, rain-soaked province of Spain pinched between Portugal and the Atlantic—honoured the politicians who drafted the principles of Galician self-rule in 1978 with bagpipes and folk songs.
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Yet the faithful braved the chilly weather outside the town's Manger Square as traditional Christmas songs like "Jingle Bells" played in Arabic over loudspeakers and scout groups paraded with bagpipes and sang carols.
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But this year, the 260th anniversary, there will be a Burns brunch, complete with bagpipes, a haggis ceremony, Scotch eggs, poetry, plenty of whisky and Andrew Weir of the movie "Braveheart" on hand.
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Soldiers swinging their left arms while carrying machine guns in their right marched in green uniforms as a band played the Vatican and United Arab Emirate anthems on bagpipes, silver trumpets and tubas.
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As people were linking arms and holding hands Monday night near the concert site, officials and several hundred others across town listened to bagpipes and the names of the 58 victims being read aloud.
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But when the British won the Battle of Culloden over the Scots in 1746, the British banned many Scottish cultural traditions, including the playing of bagpipes and the wearing of tartan or Highland dress.
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The final Four Simultaneous Soloists performance takes place on Friday, featuring Jules Gimbrone playing objects and electronics, Okkyung Lee on cello, Chris McIntyre on trombone and synthesizer, and Yoshi Wada on bagpipes and sirens.
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Our parade is filled with diverse sights and sounds that will add interest to your movie and also eat up a couple of minutes of screen time: You got your people in kilts playing bagpipes.
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WITH an "Evening of Bagpipes and Polenta" (boiled cornmeal, popular in north and central Italy), the mountain town of Barga will on September 3rd launch one of Italy's more unusual cultural festivals: its annual Scottish Week.
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At a gathering of U.S. attorneys at the Justice Department, Barr grabbed a set of bagpipes to join the Emerald Society of the New York Police Department's pipe band, which was already performing for the conference.
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Foxing, a four-piece from St. Louis, most recently released a third album of indie-rock songs, which have grown more ambitious and expansive through the addition of lush synths, strings and, on one track, bagpipes.
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Brian Kidd, a 33-year-old quantum spatial acquisition manager by day, is also the Unipiper: a dude dressed in a Darth Vader mask and a kilt, accompanied by bagpipes and a unicycle on other days.
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When Representative Darrell Issa, Republican of California, showed up — having skirted a kilted man wailing on his bagpipes and having jumped over a gate to avoid the crowded sidewalk — a guard greeted him, asking how he was.
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Outside his funeral at St. Martin of Tours Church here on Thursday, several thousand firefighters listened to more somber resonances: to the whine of bagpipes, the rattle of snare drums and the thrashing of helicopters in formation.
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WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO, March 277 (Reuters) - On St. Patrick's Day last year, Amy and Chris Hillyard marked the 216th anniversary of Farley's, their pair of cafes in San Francisco and Oakland, California, with live bagpipes and noisy crowds.
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Meanwhile, Ross tries to convince Monica and Chandler to let him play the bagpipes in their wedding — a moment that climaxes with Ross almost playing "Celebration" by Kool and the Gang, eliciting real reactions from the Friends cast.
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Set amid soft sprigs of purple heather, bagpipes in the background, the 45 pieces on display had all the color and texture hallmarks of tweed, realized in a sparkling array of precious metals and stones rather than wool.
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And in 2017, McDonald's drew mockery and ire for a (since-deleted) Twitter video advertising its new chocolate Shamrock shake, featuring a man in a tartan hat with bagpipes sipping his beverage as Stonehenge appeared in the background.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General William Barr, displaying a little-known talent, played "Scotland the Brave" on his bagpipes on Wednesday, joining in with the New York City Police Department's famed Pipes and Drums of the Emerald Society.
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And last year, McDonald's drew mockery and ire for a (since-deleted) Twitter video advertising its new chocolate Shamrock shake, featuring a man in a tartan hat with bagpipes sipping his beverage as Stonehenge appears in the background.
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At the daybreak ceremony one year later, friends and family members bowed their heads for 58 seconds of silence before a choral group sang "You'll Never Walk Alone" and the air was filled with the mournful strains of bagpipes.
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The music changed as we set our glasses down, there was a sudden assault of gaidi , the mountain bagpipes ubiquitous in folk music, and then a syncopated rush of drums that made both our faces break open in smiles.
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Then the faint sound of bagpipes and drum rolls grows louder as the Emerald Society pipe band marches closer, announcing the approach of an engine truck rolling mournfully slow with a flag-covered coffin and flowers placed on top.
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Ms. Blakeslee and Mr. Otto, who have both played bagpipes since they were children, met in August 2015 when she contacted him about potentially joining the Manchester Pipe Band, a competitive group for which he was then the pipe major.
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Tartan, with all its connotations of Christmas, school uniforms and marching across the moor to bagpipes, may speak to a certain tradition, but it's not a stereotypical American one, which makes it uncomfortably close to the novelty tie for many viewers.
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As bagpipes wailed in a cold, steady rain, a hearse delivering the flag-draped coffin of Jersey City Police Detective Joseph Seals arrived at Saint Aedan's Church, where a team of honor guards carried it inside for a funeral mass.
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A brash young man eager to fund philanthropic causes, he cultivated connections with the Police Department — posing with top officials, and once arranging for police bagpipes at a party — and became a fixture at fund-raising events for Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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At the daybreak ceremony one year later, friends and family members of those slain or wounded bowed their heads for 58 seconds of silence before a choral group sang "You'll Never Walk Alone" and the air filled with the mournful strains of bagpipes.
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Brigid Ann Blakeslee and Jared Harris Otto, who have both played bagpipes since they were children, met in August 20143 when she contacted him about potentially joining the Manchester Pipe Band, a competitive group for which he was then the pipe major.
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Timothy P. Broglio, archbishop for military services in the United States, celebrated the Mass and was joined by a color guard of veterans and Boy Scouts, in a church filled with hymns and patriotic songs led by a choir, orchestra and bagpipes.
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Much of the port city's allure lies in constant reinvention and little surprises (like free-range guinea hens clucking up and down Legare Street, sous-chefs flying by on skateboards heading into work, or Citadel cadets honking their bagpipes on sidewalks in summertime).
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There was a famine in the Highlands, and the use of bagpipes, Gaelic and tartan were banned, as were traditional clan allegiances.) Regardless, the soldiers take Ian (Steven Cree) for questioning, unknowingly riding right past their wanted man who is hiding in the woods.
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We're talking about the video for "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)," which is the one where the band is rocking out on a flatbed truck as it drives through the city, complete with bagpipes and everything.
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Calling on the skills of archaeologists, philologists, acousticians, metal workers and others, it has brought back to life instruments ranging from ancient bagpipes to 30,000-year-old vulture- bone flutes (although some say those are merely vulture bones that some poor animal chewed holes in).
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Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump searches for backstops amid recession worries Mueller report fades from political conversation Barr removes prisons chief after Epstein death MORE surprised the U.S. Attorneys' National Conference Wednesday morning with a bagpipes performance before delivering remarks.
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Season 1 was unabashedly Scottish, utilizing Celtic instrumentation like the robust sounds of bagpipes and drums, while Season 2 had a decidedly more Baroque influence as Jamie and Claire traveled to France, using a string instrument called the viola de gamba for a distinctly Parisian sound.
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Davis was a new kind of hard rock frontman—a wiry misfit who played the bagpipes (which he recorded outside at Indigo for the opening of "Shoots and Ladders," echoing off the canyon walls) and was relentlessly teased in high school for wearing eyeliner and listening to Duran Duran.
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He originally rejected a coat-of-arms as a silly distraction, but then enjoyed putting his own symbols on it: a chanter for the bagpipes he loved playing, a 12-inch rule from his metal-cutting days, and a fish to represent Glasgow and one of the miracles of St Mungo.
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As the two journey through Limboland to steal the bagpipes from Bumbo, they encounter visual strangenesses left unexplained — a mole holding a ruler, a goat's rear sticking up from a pond — indulging the way children's minds so naturally whisper This could be us at even the most bizarre and improbable vignettes.
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The current version of the robot's only limitation is that it's still dependent on a human to blow into it, but its creator is working on building an automated air pump so that the Ardu McDuino can play the bagpipes 24 hours a day, seven days a week, without ever getting tired. Hooray?
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William J. Bratton marked his final day as New York City police commissioner on Friday by strolling through a receiving line of hundreds of officers, a joyful smile on his face as he exited Police Headquarters to applause and the wail of bagpipes, which all but drowned out a small number of protesters.
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The biggest laughs come from surprise at completely bizarre swings: a barely euphemistic dick joke; goofs about divorce and abortion (the ostrich's dad says he "should've been an omelet"); and a bizarre dragon colonic, where Dolittle reaches into the giant lizard's (obscured) rectum to pull out bagpipes and a set of armor.
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On Gods of Violence, "Army Of Storms" rivals most power metal bands with its maddeningly uplifting chorus; bagpipes spatter "Hail to The Hordes," but it's not like they've just thrown things at a wall to see what sticks; "Death Becomes My Light" has Petrozza doing his now once-an-album balladeering, but that remains the album's sole question mark.
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The credits for episode 301 debuted without the Highland bagpipes that feel so quintessentially Scottish, and although we didn't know it when the season began, this subtle change hinted at the momentous journey Claire and Jamie would soon embark upon: "we're going onto the high seas; we're going to Jamaica — we are leaving Scotland behind," McCreary says.
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Feeling trapped at the law firm, Jimmy pulls out all of the insufferable stops: gets a loud, messy juicer for the kitchen; plays bagpipes in his office; is "the guy who doesn't flush his shit down the toilet" in the bathroom; rocks obnoxiously bright suits, a brief flash of the future Saul Goodman appearing in his attire.
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"Let Me Finish" is a superficial and ungainly book that tries to cover so many bases at once — it's a series of attacks and justifications, it's a master class in sucking up and kicking down, it's a potted memoir, it's a stab at political rehabilitation — that reading it is like watching an octopus try to play the bagpipes.
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There are now four owner-occupiers of the street's 13 houses, as well as four institutions: the Honorable Society of the King's Inns, where lawyers are trained; the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, where nuns live; Na Píobairí Uilleann, a pipers' club, where a valuable collection of Irish bagpipes is held; and now the tenement museum.
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In the village of Unizh, they stayed with a toothless grandmother whom their baby took to "like calf to cow," dropped by a music festival beneath the cliffs of the Dniester River, watched rural families ("including small children") haying in the fields and visited a master craftsman famed for his skill at making bagpipes out of whole goatskins.
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Even the amazing sound the kings made—a spiralling festive bray that was sort of like bagpipes, sort of like a holiday noise-maker, and sort of like the "woofing dog" sound on certain airplanes, but really like nothing on earth I'd ever heard—had a soothing effect when thousands of distant penguins were making it together.
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When the 9/11 beams officially rise from ground zero, the traditional bagpipes play homages to the dead and the names of al Qaeda's victims are read this Sunday, I will be revisiting painful memories of 15 years ago, along with fresh anger directed at all those in Congress who believe they have a right to betray the American people.
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Say the word 'bagpipes,' and, if you are anything like the me of a few years ago, it conjures up the image of a kilted Highlander and the land of moors and heather—but now I know it should also bring to mind an old man in a doorway in Sicily, the smartly uniformed military band in Iraq, or a modern young woman from Galicia.
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Every purgatorial season was like every other purgatorial season, with various haunted lottery picks affixing a thousand-yard stare at the end of their rookie contracts and slowly shuffling forward and a host of defective vagabonds—able-bodied bigs with hands like buttered oven mitts, grave Slavic big men who regarded rebounding as unclean, stringbean perimeter gunners who d'ed up with all the command and purpose of a toddler trying to play bagpipes—orbiting wanly around them.
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Or after the parade has begun, as you walk down west 45th street on the way toward 5th Avenue, past rehearsing bagpipe circles, one after another, every black inch of asphalt occupied, short men with broom-bristle mustaches, bald heads so round they look digitally rendered, surrounding two guys in the center beating cannon-blasts on the drums, the piercing whine of the bagpipes that sounds somehow triumphant and mournful, a commencement and a eulogy all at once, street cart smoke burning your nostrils like acid, you wandering around in a bubble of this.
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