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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…

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  1. July 6th, 2009 at 17:43 | #1

    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!

  2. July 6th, 2009 at 18:59 | #2

    Spelling corrected, Captain Pedantic.

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