tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45141254847919253532012-03-16T22:12:35.961-04:00The Ancient Order of Hibernians Pipes and Drums Band's mission is to play the pipes and drums to the highest skill level possible. A high communal spirit, endless good times, and above all, the joys of achievement are the rewards of hours of dedicated practice.Bob Stockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03426221018996041383noreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4514125484791925353.post-12031537096775154962011-03-20T15:47:00.001-04:002011-04-27T16:17:54.323-04:00

I just don't know what came over me today but I found a guy called the "BadPiper" and I just had to show you this. With just one more parade to end this month. I wounder if  we can get the band fitted like this before the trip to Ireland.

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Hello everyone, here we are again at the start of a new season. This year is going to be a big one for the band, lots of places to go and thing to see. This year we have 17 paying "gigs" and a good number of volunteer engagements, so here we go for the month of March. Last week we were at the yearly AOH fundraiser at Danial Webster Collage were we had a good showing of piper and drummers.

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This is the "first cut" on the Band upcoming trip to Ireland and Scotland. for  Oct. 2012. Now is the time to start thinking about it, getting your passport in order, finding a petsitter, maybe a tour guide book or two and making all the arrangements needed to enjoy the trip. Also remember that in order to go, you will need to make as many parades and other paying performances as possible.

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Pipe band tenor drum Originally a rope-tensioned drum, giving way to modern rod tension, the tenor drum occupied a unique position in the drum corps of military and civilian pipe bands, being used as both timekeepers, accents to the musical ensemble, as well as spectacle. Three types of tenor drum are played in modern pipe bands :    1. Flourishing tenor: Flourishing tenor drummers use beaters

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   Well here it is, the start of a new year. Now normally you may have noticed if you watch television or read the newspapers, that all have been loading down with "Events of 2010" or some such thing. Fine and good but I know all about what went on last year and now I just want to look forward.  So, with that in mind I am picking up again with this blog and will try to keep you all informed and

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So you want to play the pipes?If you are reading this and you have thought to yourself "... I like hearing someone playing the bagpipes, I wonder just how hard they are to learn..." and walked up to a piper to ask him or her "Just what does it take to start playing those things?" You are not along. This question is one asked of just about every piper from time to time. On the other hand, the

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I have been remiss over the past two or three weeks on keeping up on this blog. In my defense, I can only offer the usual reasons; family, work, life in general and my inborn laziness. So this is my attempt to catch up with the news as taken from my notes, and try to do better.Last Thursday night we held another practice at the usual place at Post 7 of the American Leagon in Rochester, NH. The

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Last weeks practice for the seacoast group was held at Mel's in Rochester. The reason was that there was a group of hi-schoolers from Ireland touring the country and they were stopping in at Mel's for dinner. Also invited over were local hi-school kids and we thought that this may be a good time to expose some new people to the joys of bagpiping.So we held our normal practice in the back room and

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In the rain, in the snow, people came out from all over to take part in the "Making Strides Against Breast Cancer in Manchester this past Sunday (Oct, 18th). And we were there.As we have done in past years, the band started off the walk and then played until every one walked past us. It seemed to me that even with the rain and the snow, as many if not more people and teams came out as I have

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As you may all ready know, every Thursday night members of the Seacoast branch of the band gather to practice, learn new tunes or to improve there skills. This last Thursday (October 15)We had Betty, Cheryl, Kathy, Sally, Little Gunny and Tom. Jack also showed up which was a nice surprise for everyone. Some of us worked on scales while a small group practice Amazing Grace and Scotland the Brave

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Don't forget the performance at the Deerfield fair this Saturday Oct 3. Uniform is full kit with white shirt, black polo, sweater (won't be that warm ), rain cape (won't be that dry) and tie. The Bus will be a gate E like last year.I would suggest getting there early at the roads generally are crowed with wall to wall traffic.

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If you remember our parade in Londonerry, or if you don't. The good people that ran the parade also had someone take photos of every group that marched in it and placed it on a website.The web page can be found by copying and pasting the address below the photo into your web browser.http://www.londonderrynh.net/?p=4097This is what they wrote about us:"Ancient Order of Hibernians Pipe & Drums –

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Hello everyone,Roy sent me this e-mail that I am passing on for him for you information.Bob could you send out an inquiry to see if anyone wants to play at the highland games..I need to know soon like yesterday hahahathey would have to make a commitment to Sat and Sunday.? We would receive 15 weekend tickets. We would play at the mast bands on the opening and closing also may play on Sunday on

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Sorry, but I still seem to be having a problem with my e-mail carrier so I tryed it again a different way, hoping that everyone got it. I am also as you can see, posting this to the AOH Blog that is now part of our website. I think that this will be easier for everyone to get to. Anyway, the following is what we have ahead for now.Veterans' Memorial ParkAOH Pipes and Drums Band to play at

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Hello everyone,I think that I got my mailing list fixed for now but to check it I am sending a mailing out as not only a test but to put out information for up coming events. If you get this mailing, would please send me back a short replies so I can get an idea on how this is working?On to the news. This Saturday the 8th, I have been told that Mel Flangenion's (sp?) in Rochester is hosting a

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Ok, nothing too deep here. As I was looking through the web for some information for another topic I came across thishttp://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-Bagpipes-out-of-a-Garbage-Bag-and-Reco/Drummers only need two sticks to beat on anything around them. Pipers, well something more.

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This I hope will be a new feature to the web page that can be used for band updates, descriptions of activities and anything else that we can think of. Don't forget to check back from time to time.

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