Operation Bagpipe Part 1
As part of a bet I have agreed that I have to buy, and learn how to play, bagpipes by New Year’s Eve.
Luckily, I only need to learn one tune: Auld Lang Syne.
In the words of Top Gear: How hard can it be?
Stay tuned…
As part of a bet I have agreed that I have to buy, and learn how to play, bagpipes by New Year’s Eve.
Luckily, I only need to learn one tune: Auld Lang Syne.
In the words of Top Gear: How hard can it be?
Stay tuned…
I guess the first bit you’re going to need to learn is that the Lang (as in long) in Auld Lang Syne is spelt, very much like long, with a G (get it sorted). Further more it should be pronounced thus: all-lang-sin, I know how important doing it right will be to you!
If you were after a literal-ish translation it would be Days Gone By (which is scarily close to Days Of Our Lives a song by that band you like, can’t remember their name right now but they had an outrageous homosexual from Zanzibar singing for them and a failed astronomer on banjo?).
Secondly did you know that bagpipes are called Dudelsack in Germany? Seem like the sausage munching Krauts have tickled my funny bone!
Spelling corrected, Captain Pedantic.