Build your lung capacity-Play the pipes

[piper_dbr]

Want to build up your lung capacity? Learn to play the bagpipes. I did it after my second mitral valve replacement. This activity has cleared out the congestion in my lungs for the past fifteen years. I am heading for my third valve repacement in two months and still can work 8 hours a day and play with a pipe band . By the way I am 65 and am looking forward to to do and see alot of things in the future.
Life has thrown a lot of left hooks my way but I have learned to live with them an make the most out of it.

 

[PJmomrunner]

I LOVE THE BAGPIPES! My brother-in-law plays and a good friend plays in southern california.

 

[hensylee]

welcome to VR - you are our very first piper. Playing a pipe always looks like it's so hard. It is beautiful, tho. I expect it surely does cleear out your own pipes because of the way you have to breathe. Congratulations.

You wear the outfit that goes with it? We might want pictures later.

 

[Ross]

That is one instrument that I hate, but strangely love. I've never quite figured out why.

 

[Glenda]

I dearly love the sound of bagpipes! I bet they do give a work out to the old lungs. How did you learn to play them? Is it hard? I play the piano and the organ but that's something I would love to learn.

 

[tobagotwo]

We played recorded bagpipe music for our wedding ceremony (no, not "Amazing Grace" - the real stuff). It was beautiful to us, and still is.

Best wishes,

 

[Christina L]

Ross,

Ross,

I can relate to your feelings on the bagpipes. Same goes for me - not sure WHAT I think of them. Not the prettiest sounding instrument, but yet the sound is hauntingly beautiful.

The annual Scottish Highlands Festival is coming up in two weeks here in Estes Park and we will be going to the fabulous parade which is full of bagpipes and men in kilts!! Nothing like a guy in a kilt playing a bagpipe.

Piper - I like your style and what great advice for us valvers! You sound like you have a great love of life in general.

Best wishes for a very successful third surgery and maybe you will be marching in the parade in Estes Park sometime soon - in a kilt!!

Christina L.

 

[tommy]

Welcome Piper. Best wishes with your pending surgery. Sounds like you are doing very well.

I marched in the Estes Park Scottish Highlands Festival parade and visited the festival in 1999. I'll never forget the pipers playing Amazing Grace in the arena. First a lone haunting piper, then added others until there were hundreds of them. Not a dry eye in the place.

 

[Cris N]

Piper,

If you can play the bagpipes I'll bet you'd do well on a didgeridoo

Cris

 

[hensylee]

Cris - did Ross say you can use that word in VR?

 

[Cris N]

Cris - did Ross say you can use that word in VR?

What he doesn't know won't hurt him.