I love bagpipe music. Of course, there is the ever haunting Amazing Grace. http://en.dilandau.eu/download_music/amazing-grace-bagpipes-1.html Not the link for the CD I bought, but from the movie Braveheart.
In one of my favorite movies, The Longest Day, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056197/, one division of troops who land have a bagpipe player with them. The leader barks out what song to play, and the bagpipe player marches steadfastly ahead of the troops, playing as if there were no shots being fired at him and his men. The music he plays is strident and moving. They safely make it to their rendezvous point.
I bought a CD, The Spirit of the Glen http://www.myspace.com/spiritoftheglen (you can go to Rhapsody and buy the CD online and down load it.) and the music on it is haunting and melodic. Not as strident. But just as stirring in a different sort of way.
I just really like bagpipe music. I do not walk around the park in my neighborhood now, but years ago, when I did, sometimes, there would be a fellow out there, practicing the bagpipe. Wonderful!
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