With Special Music by the Highlanders
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Shipmates if this Story isn't one for the Serendipity Pages, I don't know of one!!
As I had stated on the Serendipity Intro Page, we who served in the USS Hancock brought with us all our many different facets of who we were before we enlisted. Lifestyles, thoughts, actions, some good, some not-so-good.
Music was often heard in the compartments after work hours, or when they secured from Flight Quarters. All kinds of music, from someone listening to the Pop music of the time on a record player carried aboard, or on a tape recorder. I, myself had purchased quite an elaborate Tape recorder in the Base PX at Yokosuka, Japan in 1963. An Akai 4 Track Stereo, the 'cutting edge' of audio equipment of the time, and that same machine lasted me over 30 years! So much for Japanese technology!
Other sounds echoed down the passageways; even a 4 part Quartet could be heard in the Ship's Library, where the Chaplain had his office. From Religious music to secular; The TV could be heard in the Crew's Lounge...
But in all my days, and probably your's as well, except, for the Photo Lab, you would never hear the haunting melodies that came from the Bag Pipes. Here is proof that even at least one of us could blow out a Scottish Tune on the Pipes..
, is holding his polished Highland Bag Pipes and who`s the one who drove everyone nuts in the Division spaces<p>Gerald played right into my hands in placing this Fun Page on the Internet for everyone to enjoy.. hope you like the `lilting` sounds of the Pipes m`lads.. you can hear them if you turn on your sound! - Rich) |
You can see Jerald White here, with his Bag Pipes. The guys here are smiling, not only because they were getting their picture taken, which we wanted to share with the world (thanks Rich!
) but also because the pause stopped Jerald from blowing on those pipes!!!
Now, I for one, love the haunting sounds of the Ancient Bag Pipes, but I am also quite sure that most others find the sound very annoying. The Jury is out... how do you feel about them? Anyway... the fact that at least one lonely sailor had the guts to bring the Bag Pipes aboard, shows all of the rest of us, how deep the bravery and intrepidity runs in all Hancock Shipmates!!!
Do I have any one here, who would disagree with me on that one? Send Jake and Rich Email if you do or do not.
Thanks Rich for sending in this photo, and mostly, the Thanks go out to Jerald White for being so Brave... Ah, yes... Scotland the Brave and her Brave Sons!
I wonder if you ended up with many pals or were a loner on ship?
Now you know why 'Old Salts' wish you "Fair Winds" because a good Piper has to have lots of Wind, and they be 'Fair, matie!"
Fair Winds and Following Seas, to you, Jerald White and Rich Kirsch, for sharing this bit of Hancock Serendipity with the rest of us!!!
Visit Rich Kirsch's Extended Middle Years Gallery for more great photos by him and his Photo Crew Pals.
Submitted Tuesday, May 7, 2002, 6:27:54
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Our Little Piper is playing a Medley of Scotish
& Irish Tunes for you on his Bagpipes
We hope you stay on this page long enough to listen to all 19 Tunes... some of us
love the sound of the Pipes - like Gerald White, right?
They will plat automatically unless you wish
to have a reprise - then click on the links below
You're invited to stay for the Concert
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Reprise
The Rustic Old
Bridge by the Mill
Flower of Scotland
Will Ye No Come Back Again
The Atholl Highlanders
Barren Rocks of Aden
The Blue Bells of
Scotland
The Brown
haired Maiden
Colonel Robertson
The Piobaireachd
of Donald Dhu
Dovecote Park
Drops of Brandy
Abide with Me
Ghillie Callum
Sword Dance #1
Ghillie Callum
Sword Dance #2
The Glendaruel
Highlanders
The Irish Washerwoman
Lady Loudon
The Mucking o'Geordie's
Byre
The Orange and the Blue
The Smith's
a Gallant Fireman
The Wearing
of the Green
Wings
Finale
Scotland the Brave
Most of these Midis came from
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