I talk for a living! I talk to people, animals. Wow, this feels weird just typing this out, without being able to really talk to you! Because that's essentially what I do. But at least I'm no longer wondering why the whole megillah doesn't burst into flame.Ģ006 Vacation (1) 2007 Vacation (14) 2008 Vacation (4) 2009 Vacation (5) 2010 Vacation (7) 2011 Vacation (9) 9/11 Attack (1) Abortion (1) addiction (1) Alcoholism (6) Art (2) Arthritis (1) Birds (5) Book reviews (2) BP (1) British Royal Family (1) California budget (5) Charles I (1) Charles II (1) Charles III (1) Climate change (7) Consumer information (3) Crime (7) Death penalty (2) Disasters (8) Drug issues (7) Earthquakes (2) Economy (29) Election (16) Entertainment (2) Evil (1) Facebook (1) Family (1) Financial meltdown (1) Flying Spaghetti Monster (1) Foreign affairs rants (32) Free speech (5) Funny (7) Gentrification (2) Global warming (6) Gun control (6) Health Care (19) History (12) Homeless (1) Idiocy (30) Immigration (4) Labor (2) Language (1) Lead poisoning (1) Lebanon (1) Medicare (2) Memories of Cal (1) Mental illness (1) Military history (5) Money in politics (1) Movie notes (12) Music (12) Napa (3) Nature (19) Oakland (11) Oakland Symphony (1) Oakland Symphony Chorus (5) Oil spill (1) Overpaid executives (2) Pandemic (6) People are weird (66) Personal (120) Police (2) Political rants (250) Presidential elections (2) Racism (11) Regulation (4) Religion (3) Same sex marriage (2) Science (12) Sex discrimination (1) Shakespeare (1) Slavery (2) Social media (2) Stuff (13) Subprime mortgages (17) Supreme Court (1) Tags (1) Taxation (1) Techno-crazy (20) Travel stories (43) Trumpology (3) U.C.Hi! I'm Cassidy Quinn. Without talking to someone who's actually created one of these things, this is all pure speculation. The gas doesn't have to pass through the reed, although the air from the bag does. If you tapped the gas source into the drone above the reed, it wouldn't be affected by the flame at all. Now, what about the reed or double reed? Reeds are usually at the end of the instrument where the air is blown in in a bagpipe drone, that's inside the bag. Also, if the flame only lasts for a second or two (and I didn't see any that lasted much longer than that), it probably won't affect the wood of the drone at all and, of course, the flame will go away the instant the gas flow stops. My consultant pointed out that the flow of gas up the tube, before ignition, would cool the area somewhat. It would have to have a jet poking up inside the drone, and some kind of spark arrangement on the jet to light it finally it would have to have either one or two switches the player could use to control the gas flow and the spark (separately or together). We both agreed that anyone doing this has to put some kind of gas source (The Crucible uses propane) inside the bag. I regret that I didn't think to ask his name he was an older man with a white beard, wearing a hat, sitting next to the booth. I dropped in at their booth and posed my question, and learned some very interesting things from a man there. Now, one group which is always at the Mini Maker Faire is The Crucible, an Oakland non-profit specializing in art production involving fire. I asked the guy about the bagpipes, but he said no, he didn't know anything about flaming bagpipes. Mini Maker Faires usually have flame-throwers somewhere this one had a guy (from Sheet Metal Alchemist) with a tower of flamethrowers you could set them off by swinging a mallet at a lever, just like the old "ring the bell" carny act, except this one produces a huge burst of flame in the air above you. I spent part of last weekend at the East Bay Mini Maker Faire in Oakland, California. This leaves a huge question in my mind: how the devil do you blow a huge blast of flame through a wooden reed or double reed instrument without incinerating the whole boiling, and the bagpiper too? And yet both of these bagpipers continued to play while intermittently shooting bursts of flame out of the drones. This explains a lot about the way bagpipes sound, actually. And I definitely learned from Wikipedia that bagpipe drones are either reed instruments (like a clarinet) or double-reed instruments (like an oboe). ![]() But to the best of my knowledge, the chanter (the one the piper fingers) and the drones are made of wood, although Wikipedia doesn't confirm this directly. ![]() Now, I like bagpipes, a taste I inherited from my mother not everyone does. ![]() You can find more videos, if you're interested, by searching for "flaming bagpipes" on YouTube. Unicycling Darth Vader Upgrades to Flaming Bagpipes Drones are the pipes which stick out of the bags and produce a single tone each. Over the last couple of months I've seen two short videos posted on Facebook, in which bagpipe players, playing their instruments, caused bursts of flame to come out of the drones.
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Tim holds degrees from the University of Iowa and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Tim’s stories have also appeared in New England Review, New Letters, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, Double Take, Best Life Magazine, and Narrative Magazine, among others. In 2005 the title story, “Irish Girl,” was included in the David Sedaris anthology of favorites, Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules. Henry Prize, the New Letters Award for Writers, and the Gival Press Short Story Award, while the collection itself won the 2009 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. A New York Times, USA Today, and Indie national bestseller, Descent has been published internationally and optioned for film. Tim Johnston is the author of the novels THE CURRENT and DESCENT, the story collection IRISH GIRL, and the YA novel NEVER SO GREEN. ![]() Why weren’t they more careful? What has happened to their daughter? Is she alive? Will they ever know? Caitlin’s disappearance, all the more devastating for its mystery, is the beginning of the family’s harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths until all that continues to bind them together are the questions they can never bring themselves to ask: At what point does a family stop searching? At what point will a girl stop fighting for her life? But when Caitlin and her younger brother, Sean, go out for an early morning run and only Sean returns, the mountains become as terrifying as they are majestic, as suddenly this family find themselves living the kind of nightmare they’ve only read about in headlines or seen on TV.Īs their world comes undone, the Courtlands are drawn into a vortex of dread and recrimination. For eighteen-year-old Caitlin, the mountains loom as the ultimate test of her runner’s heart, while her parents hope that so much beauty, so much grandeur, will somehow repair a damaged marriage. 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