Rather than comments made to me when busking I remember fondly seeing a young fella busking in Holborn underground station when I was working in London in the 1980s. After listening for a while I complemented his playing and, as is the way with pipers, I asked who made is pipes. “Leo Rowsome” came the reply. Then almost as an after thought he added quietly…“my grandfather.”
Ian
Sean Folsom was busking in San Francisco a few years back and was playing a non-solo type zampogna without a piffero player to play melody. He overheard a couple of young Irish gents just off the boat talking. One said to the other, “Look at that Mick. He forgot the chanter and is just playing the drones and regulators”.
Paddy Keenan at the Blarney Star in NYC a number of years ago, just finished a set of tunes, someone from the crowd yells out and asks what the second tune was and who wrote it, Paddy responds that he doesn’t know, someone else from the crowd yells out that it was Junior Crehan, Paddy responds “oh? I don’t think so, he may have made it up, but he definitely didn’t write it” guffaws all round.
Kevin Rowsome?
I can totally see that.
One - with parallels to older anecdotes somewhere on this forum - is the introduction of a globally known piper at a concert
here in this part of the world as someone who would “…now play on the villian pipes…”
M
A man came up to me in a pub and said “I’ve bet my wife $5 that those aren’t bagpipes.” I pointed to the bag and said “Bag,” then pointed to the rest of the rig and said “Pipes.” His wife smiled ever so broadly as she directed him to give us the $5 as a tip. 
if you keep looking at my wife that way,I’ll smash your face in.
RORY
Hmmm, yes well there are people who are married to their pipes!
My wife keeps flirting with a banjo so I’m looking for a divorce .
RORY
Favourite quote
“F***ing stupid bloody reeds!”
Every piper that ever lived!
A friend pointed out to me that whenever I referred to
the reed it was prefaced by the word fuqqckIng
“You’ve gotta be a masochist to take up the pipes”
Understatement of the century right there! Thankfully when it comes to practicing instruments I’m quite masochistic. Hell, I don’t even use a popping strap! (Though I will be getting one pretty soon)
Maybe I’ll try brain stimulation! 
Jimmy O’brien Moran performing at the 2005 Southern California Tionol concert;
“I’ve been told that some think of this as a failed experiment…”
And here is one that just happened this evening.
I arrived early for the weekly session, and was sitting at a table at the pub with my pipe case. It is a case made by Bagpiper, and clearly has the name of the company embossed across it in big red letters.
A fellow comes up with his mate and inquires about the starting time of the session. I give him the details. He then sees my case and asks if I have bagpipes or uilleann pipes. I replied, ‘They’re uilleann pipes. Irish bagpipes.’ He thanks me and leaves, but I overhear him commenting to his friend as they walk away ‘He has a case that says bagpipes, but he doesn’t have bagpipes.’
Eeejit.
This one always grates me:
“Where’s your skirt?”
“There’s always something G*ddammit!!!”
Many pipers out there…
A great one last week from a perplexed 15-year-old:
“Where do they plug in?”