Re: the pipes

From: lboard_at_...
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:30:31 -0000

The pipes or most any martial music will lift the spirits and stoak the enthusiasm Wulf. My reanacrment story on that goes as follows ... [no sh** there I was] when marthing back to the encampment after a large field battle [a couple of thousand of my finest friends )] one of the fellows from the other side asked me why my unit had been grinning like maniacs when we charged. In truth we were having a blast and that was the first time we had a piper with us. The answer I gave? "Well lad, do you know the difference between a smile and a bearing of teeth?"

Larry

> On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 22:17:54 -0000, bethexton_at_y... wrote:
>
> >I'm not sure about in battle directly, but I vaguely recall some
> >general type from the first world war remarking that when you'd
> >marched the men to exhaustion, if you got the pipes going you
could
> >be sure to get at least another few miles out of them. Sounds
like a
> >clear example of AP lending to me!
>
> In reenactment, whenever there were pipers around (quite frequently
at
> Highland Games and the like in Scotland), we had to be reminded NOT
to
> march in step (not done by 10th century Vikings!), and the
seriousness
> & determination of facial expressions deepened...
>
> At one English Civil War do, they banned the pipes again, after we
(as
> highlanders this time) got a bit overheated...
>
> Wulf