When you least expect it...

I had a quick lesson at Jori's house on Wednesday the 10th.  It was short because a Metro bus broke down in the commuter lane and had traffic backed up for MILES!  Argh, I really dislike traffic, and I missed 30 precious minutes of my lesson.  I still got a lot out of it and Jori helped me get my pipes tuned up again.

I was on the road to have an in-person lesson was because I was also stopping over on Camano Island to visit with Diana Dunsire regarding the Bob Dunsire Bagpipe Forums .  In April I assisted in the transfer of the forums from their old leased server on the East coast to a new server in Rock Island's data center.  After getting the forum software transferred over we then upgraded the forum software to the latest version.

Sadly Diana's late husband Bob had passed away on November 6th 2006.  Bob had been battling Cancer for a some time and it was apparently very aggressive.  I never met Bob personally but had been a member of his forums since April of 2001, about 4 months after he started them up, about the same time I purchased my first practice chanter!

Long story short, in April I moved the forums to a new server, in June I was made a moderator of the forums and in late October the entire responsibility of the forums were handed over to me.  This is a great honor and a huge responsibility. The Bagpipe forum has over 11 thousand members and folks from all over the world participate in bagpipe, drumming, dance and highland music discussions.  The forums, and associated Bagpipe Web Directory are the largest and most well known on the Internet.

If your interested in learning more about Highland piping, Drumming and Dancing, not to mention the history and music behind it all, go check out the Forums.