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I have no idea, Slopey, this is a guess. The Scottish bagpipes were used in battle and are L-O-U-D. The Uillean pipes seem to be used in entertaining one another. I have been to seiseuns (sp), those Irish get togethers where everyone entertains oneanother with singing, poetry reciting, instrument playing. This is inside and you can take the pipes. The NYPD gets max effect with the big scottish ones, no freakin way can you play those things inside.
Dona, I used to date a Malaysian Chinese guy who had an irish roomate. He could go into an Irish bar and knew the right moment of drunkeness of the patrons and what song ro play on the jukebox to make tham all cry. We used to do it regularly at Murphy’s on 2nd Ave
Parking muni-meters in Manhattan south of 59th St. are $.50 for every 12 minutes, not the 20 min for a quarter rate in downtown Brooklyn.
rf, through my years in Hong Kong, I’ve seen far too many of them.
“And the boys from the NYPD choir were singing Galway Bay”
I agree with DIBS. Most “traditional” music and dance is super boring. Just because that’s all people managed to come up with to fill their spare time in some medieval village doesn’t mean it has any social or artistic value today.
I’m only interested in “non Irish” sexually. That said, a nice smooth skinned black Irish lad could put the spring in my step.
Murphy’s & Jameson’s are only 2 blocks from Grand Sichuan. Whaddaya say we head down there after the RMCL and see what the cat dragged in.
But my grandfather used to cry when he heard the song “Galway Bay”. (That was when he had a few drinks and started remembering his mother etc)
Legion, what is your “national musical instrument?”
Probably the panflute or some Andean folk drum,
which would make one want to strangle a Llama if
heard repeatedly.