"'McBlare' is a robotic bagpipe player. It plays an ordinary set of bagpipes using an air compressor to provide air and electro-magnetic devices to power the 'fingers' that open and close tone holes that determine the musical pitch. McBlare is controlled by a computer that has many traditional bagpipe tunes in its memory."
OK - it has nothing to do with Tennis Elbow. I found this at Dave Barry's site: http://blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_blog/
Happy Friday
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A comment from a relative - received via e-mail:
"From Dave Barry, of course, I expect some humor. And this, like a lot of the best humor, is based on fact. In a slightly different line though, many pipers use an electronic chanter for practice (with earphones!) or recording. (A chanter is the part that sticks out the bottom of the bag; it has holes like a recorder (flute-like instrument)). See http://www.deger.com/ for an example of one a friend at work showed me a couple of years ago."
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