[sdiy] Electro-mechanical bagpipes (was: Roland accordion...)

[Tim Ressel]

What? Oh, the instrument. For a minute there I thought
you were talking about my ex-mother-in-law. Who'd want
a virtual instrument of that?  ;-)

--TimR

--- "R. D. Davis" <rdd at rddavis.org> wrote:
> Quothe WeAreAs1 at aol.com, from writings of Wed, Jul
> 07, 2004 at
> 03:57:25AM -0400:
> > I apologize in advance for being such a
> horn-rimmed-glasses,
> > pencil-pocket-protector-wearing, "Coffee and
> Cabbage Polka"-loving
> > dork, but, damn!  This virtual accordion is the
> coolest thing Roland
> > has done in many, many years.  Yes,
> 
> Why couldn't they have chosen to be more creative
> and made a truly
> imaginative product that doesn't offend the ears,
> and made virtual
> bagpipes instead?  I love the sound of bagpipes and
> have contemplated
> building an electronically controlled set of
> electro-mechanical
> bagpipes.  Then I could sit out on my wildlife
> habitat lawn and play
> them, giving the neat-grass-only-lawned
> suburb-dwelling neighbors
> something else to like, drowning out the racket made
> by their noisy
> children.  ;-)
> 
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> All Rights Reserved            unnatural belief that
> we're above Nature & her
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> using dogma to justify such
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> justify much human cruelty.
> 



	
		
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