Bagpipes
This plea for help, sent to a choir directors' email list, caught my eye even before I noticed it came from my wife's aunt. Good luck with those pentecostal bagpipes, Karla!
You already knew, didn't you? -- P.D.Q. Bach has a Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons. Or is that Ballons?
Umie the Umlaut says, "ask your doctor about the Fredösphere!"
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Oh, those dreaded Pentecostal bagpipes! I once had a whole BAND of them to deal with at my Presbyterian church. I could find no texts with the proper meter for either tune in my hymnbook collection, but will post the question to an organists' forum...
My organist's forum came up with a few suggestions. I don't have some of these tunes in my books and couldn't check them, but many of the others didn't seem very appropriate to me. In lots of cases, the em-PHA-sis winds up on the wrong syl-LA-ble. For what it's worth, here they are:
alternatives for SLANE are.....
CRUCIFIER
ELLERS
EVENTIDE
HARRIS
MORECAMBE
NATIONAL HYMN
WOODLANDS
alternatives for FINLANDIA are.....
SONG 1
YORKSHIRE
UNDE ET MEMORES
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