Thursday, December 31, 2009

The Bagman's Gambit

Carnegie Mellon University offers a bagpipe major. Seriously. The CMU School of Music makes bagpipers practice in the basement of another building, but it's legitimate.
(The sound of bagpipes always make me want to join a gathering crowd in the dead of night and walk barefoot in single-file procession. Oh, wait: been there, done that. Carleton, you are something else.)

Nick Howard, the only graduating bagpipe major in America in 2009, shows you how it's done:



(CBS article, 2006)

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