Hi & welcome, Richard!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

RW>  And, as this old audio engineer, bass man and
RW>  keyboard player


          Uh-huh.  I've seen messages from you in other echoes, and you
strike me as a man of good sense....  :-)



RW>  learned years ago, bagpipes were meant to do just
RW>  that, especially the "war pipes" mentioned.  THey
RW>  were designed as munitions.


          Music hath charms to soothe the savage b(r)east... or whatever.  ;-)



RW>  Bag pipes, and some opera singers were not something
RW>  taken into consideration when most modenr recording
RW>  facilities were built.  Tried recording both in the
RW>  average studio.


          Ahh.  Some time ago, I helped a kid tune his drones in a four by
six foot practice room.  I won't make that mistake again... [chuckle].



RW>  AT one in st. Louis where I worked we had trouble
RW>  even in our big live room recording a pipe band.
RW>  I think they finally did that project in a high
RW>  school gym .


          Makes sense to me!  Dallas & I have performed in school
gyms... both as teachers and as musicians.  With a concert band or pit
orchestra a big live room enhances the sound where it tends to disappear
into the rafters of a gym. With a pipe band the apparent reduction in
volume could be desirable....  :-))



RW>  in the tradition of this thread of musician jokes


          Thankyou for adding to it.

          Laughter is good medicine.  On a physical level, it can exercise
the diaphragm & improve the functioning of the immune system... on a
psychological level, I think being able to laugh at oneself is important
too.  :-)



RW>  What do you call a trombone player with a pager?

RW>  An optimist.


RW>  What do you call a guitar player without a girlfriend?

RW>  HOmeless.


          Or we could just substitute the word "musician" in
either case!  But seriously, I believe Deepak Chopra has a point when he
says what we love to do is the key to what we should be doing.  And I
reckon you understand that.  :-)




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