Q: How do you get two bagpipers to play in tune?
A: Shoot one of them.
Local pipe-major Gordon Pollock’s heard them all but the universal appeal of ancient pipes of all types — particularly a full set of Highland bagpipes — is no joke.
“What drives people to listen is the sheer presence of this instrument,” said the Duncan dentist, turning professor for Bagpipes 101.
“They’re a remarkable engineering feat.”
Centuries of tradition plus a lifetime of practice by Pollock and the Cowichan Pipes & Drums can be heard this weekend during dinners and shows toasting the birthday Scottish poet Robbie Burns.
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