Highland Pipes for better health

Bagpipes (Non-Uilleann)
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So…it seems everytime I am sick or feeling unwell and I play my Highland pipes, all of a sudden I feel much better!

It is the strangest thing. So…today I am suffering from a four day lower back pinched nerve that is killing me and I have to play for a funeral service.

I play at the service five tunes and…guess what? My back isn’t hurting half as much as it was!

This seems to happen time and time again no matter if I have a cold, painful back, or some other nagging ailment that day.

I guess it must be the aerobic exercise one gets whislt playing the pipes.

Anyone else experience this strange miracle cure?

Cheers! Richard

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No. It’s because your illnesses and ailments are caused by demons. And everyone knows that even the blackest of black-hearted demons flee in terror from the sound of the GHB. I don’t want you feel ill, Richard, but when it comes to the pipes my sympathies are kind of on the side of the demons.

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MTGuru,

From my experience ducks and pheasants also flee from the GHB, but today the white doves just flew away as fast as they could.

Pheasants make a wild screeching sound when you play the GHBs. Maybe they are just singing along?

I am pretty much done with the illness demons man! I just want to left alone.

Richard

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I can’t say that I’ve experienced that.

I once had a fever over 100 and had to play at an outdoor wedding in the sun in Palm Springs where it was around 105. Standing in the sun in a black wool jacket blowing on the pipes didn’t help one bit!

Another time I was suffering from, literally, a pain in the neck (a pinched nerve as it turned out) and had to play at a funeral… it was awful.