I’m having trouble surviving a set of irish pipes a member of my family has,
They pay insesantly and wont let me talk to them, How can i ‘plug’ the pipes so he can’t play them, without actually damaging the set of pipes or the player of them?
Please help me…
Ask for more money!!! :roll:
Uilliam
ps ye get no sympathy frae me…
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Sorry, us lot would probably be more inclined to plug you, so the poor piper can get on with practice. God knows it’s hard enough to learn these things without anyone giving you stick.
Seriously, it’s a love affair. My wife recently asked why I didn’t take up an easier instrumetnt, rather than rant on about how rubbish I still am after all these years of diligent practice despite ill health. ‘There aren’t any other instruments!’ was my impassioned reply.
Give them encouragement and in later years you will be rewarded by sweet, sweet music
Perhaps there is a place where your family member can practice, where you aren’t affected so much by the sound. Other than that, I might suggest drinking heavily… or better yet, taking up the Uilleann Pipes yourself. 
any tampering with the pipes, even if it doesn’t damage the instrument, is likely to emotionally damage the piper beyond all hope of repair.
The piper is then likely to damage your head.
plus, it kills your karma, and in the next life you will come back as some Arundo Donax reed cane clogging some endangered Californian estuary
…Oooooooooo, that sounds like fun!
As in so many things in life, you have been given an opportunity and a challenge. It is up to you whether you choose to accept this, or run away. The opportunity is for you to take up UPs yourself. The challenge is to then learn to be much better on UPs than your significant other. Thus balance is maintained.
djm
You won’t find a lot of empathy here.
I was driving a friend around and had one my piping CDs playing away in my car. She said, “What’s this?”
“Uilleann pipes,” I said. “It’s what I spend two hours of my life every single bloody day doing.”
Enlightened, she answered, “You could learn piano and make a better sound for a lot less work.”
I almost made her walk to her destination. It was lucky for her that we were almost there when the player on the CD (I think it was Rowsome) started using the regs and she exclaimed, “That’s a CHORD??”
sigh Some people don’t understand.
“nolite dare sanctum canibus neque mittatis margaritas vestras ante porcos ne forte conculcent eas pedibus suis et conversi disrumpant vos”
and, no, that’s ‘canibus’ not ‘cannibis’
Right. Let’s see if I understand you: don’t give sanction to a dog nor chuck your pearl in front of the weak pig who steps on his foot and conversely disrupts you.
Or would that be: don’t you dare light that joint or throw margueritas you pig with a gimpy foot nor voice your twisted trumpet.
How apt!
djm
um…close…
usually rendered, “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.” (Matt7:6)
This helps me with my own situation…My boyfriend has been learning banjo and and playing it ALL DAY LONG and driving me nuts. But now I see that what I need to do is start practicing the pipes whenever he plays the banjo, and that will drown him out. 
Justine
either that, or you’ll have to kill him…this is probably the better option…
Agreed. I’d have to make an exception for bean seos.
djm