This weekend had 3 Santa Parades, First was Helensville on Saturday. We first did a 15 minute performance in the town centre at 10:45, then headed to the Ginger Crunch Cafe where the parade started at 12:00. The march was long and quite fast, Kerry set a long stride which made it uncomfortable for some. […]
Two Santa parades The short Henderson Santa Parade on Saturday then the big Farmers Santa Parade through Queen Street on Sunday. Both were with City Of Sails Pipeband. I could only find photos from the Farmers Parade
Surface carving patterns drawn on the tounge
It was a busy day arriving at 7:30am to help put up the Clan Cameron Tent Solos was ok, weather and tuning made the 2/4 March challenging although according to the Judge it sounded ok – “a pleasure to listen to”. The March might have been better than the Strathspey and Reel although I felt […]
A few photos to show the progress so far.
I purchased a Naill blackwood chanter for solos with the hopes of using it next weekend at the Auckland Highland Games. With some help from Michel had the chanter tuned and now seems quite nice to play. This was also a lesson in chanter tuning as this will need to be monitored over the next […]
I was able to help out the City of Manukau Pipes and Drums for the Armistice Parade in Manurewa. It was short parade, fast pace but had to keep the steps close to make sure we were not going to fast for the veterans. The rain held off which is also good
The head is now starting to take shape, still a bit of work to go, still got to carve a lot of it down before it starts to look good.
For the last few weeks I have been finding that my base drone gets wet after about an hour and a half of playing. This usually causes the base drone to change pitch requiring the pipes to be re-tuned, lately it has been causing the base to cut off completely. I checked the Ross Canister […]
Two Whisky Purchases both from Bruichladdich, a nice peated Port Charlotte, and an in your face over the top peat monster Octomore 07.1 I’ll start with the Port Charlotte, Heavily Peated, as I have had this before. This is a nice whiskey, especially for the price. It has a unique flavour that makes it stand […]
