International Bagpipe Day

A special treat: With yesterday’s International Bagpipe Day, I am sharing never released photos. These photos are restored with Epson’s finest restoration software. You are going to really be able to see the difference! I am very impressed at how high tech resolution is becoming. Enjoy. . .

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A Very Strong Musical Fellowship:
Ancient Origination:The bagpipe has roots to ancient Egypt as early as 400 BC the Pipers of Thebes as it is documented that the Egyptians were blowing pipes made from dog skin with chanters of bone. Then several hundred years later, one of the most famous exponents of the pipes have been documented back to the great Roman Emperor Nero, who may have been piping rather than fiddling while Rome burned to the ground.

Irish Evolution: The earliest Irish roots of the Piob Mhor bagpipe show up in the year 1206, approximately thirty years after the Anglo-Norman invasion. Even though both England and France used the bagpipe in processions, church services, and festivities, the first pictorial representation of the native Irish mouth blown pipe is in the year 1578 and it shows a two-drone pipe much like both the English and French instruments.

Scottish Evolution: The bagpipe first arrived in Scotland around the year 1400, having previously appeared in European artwork in the country of Spain in the 13th century. All versions of the Great Highland Bagpipe are closely associated mostly these days with Scotland.

What is a Bagpipe? The bagpipe is a musical instrument with reed pipes that are sounded by the pressure of wind emitted from a bag squeezed by the player’s arm.

Today’s special photo segment:
Instead of trivia, I am sharing this photo segment instead. . .

Chicago Marching Band Competition – June 1983:
It really was 39 years ago that I had the unique opportunity to visit the Chicago Marching Band Competition featuring the City of Minneapolis, Red Scottish Marching Band, Midlothian Scottish Pipe Band and Stock Yard Kilty Band in the area in front of (not on or in) the classic band shell in Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois in the summer of 1983! This really brings back great memories and are a great and respectable honor! Date – June 1983.

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Photo #1 taken with a Nikon FE-through a Nikon 26 mm lens, filter=Polarizer, Aperture=8 f/stop, shutter-speed 1/30th second, loaded with Konica ISO (ASA) 100 Color 135-20 Negative Film (stale film) processed with C-41 Processing Chemicals, and a Type C Print using the RA-4 enlargement paper process, onto a 4X6″ semi-gloss print. The photo was developed late, and the spectrum was washed out. I rescued the photo using Epson’s finest software to equalize and restore the photos at the same time not losing barely any resolution at all.

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Photo #2 taken with a Nikon FE-through a Nikon 26 mm lens, filter=Polarizer, Aperture=8 f/stop, shutter-speed 1/30th second, loaded with Konica ISO (ASA) 100 Color 135-20 Negative Film (stale film) processed with C-41 Processing Chemicals, and a Type C Print using the RA-4 enlargement paper process, onto a 4X6″ semi-gloss print. The photo was developed late, and the spectrum was washed out. I rescued the photo using Epson’s finest software to equalize and restore the photos at the same time not losing barely any resolution at all.

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Photo #3 taken with a Nikon FE-through a Nikon 26 mm lens, filter=Polarizer, Aperture=8 f/stop, shutter-speed 1/30th second, loaded with Konica ISO (ASA) 100 Color 135-20 Negative Film (stale film) processed with C-41 Processing Chemicals, and a Type C Print using the RA-4 enlargement paper process, onto a 4X6″ semi-gloss print. The photo was developed late, and the spectrum was washed out. I rescued the photo using Epson’s finest software to equalize and restore the photos at the same time not losing barely any resolution at all.

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Photo #4 taken with a Nikon FE-through a Nikon 26 mm lens, filter=Polarizer, Aperture=8 f/stop, shutter-speed 1/30th second, loaded with Konica ISO (ASA) 100 Color 135-20 Negative Film (stale film) processed with C-41 Processing Chemicals, and a Type C Print using the RA-4 enlargement paper process, onto a 4X6″ semi-gloss print. The photo was developed late, and the spectrum was washed out. I rescued the photo using Epson’s finest software to equalize and restore the photos at the same time not losing barely any resolution at all.

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Photo #5 taken with a Nikon FE-through a Nikon 26 mm lens, filter=Polarizer, Aperture=8 f/stop, shutter-speed 1/30th second, loaded with Konica ISO (ASA) 100 Color 135-20 Negative Film (stale film) processed with C-41 Processing Chemicals, and a Type C Print using the RA-4 enlargement paper process, onto a 4X6″ semi-gloss print. The photo was developed late, and the spectrum was washed out. I rescued the photo using Epson’s finest software to equalize and restore the photos at the same time not losing barely any resolution at all.

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Photo #6 taken with a Nikon FE-through a Nikon 26 mm lens, filter=Polarizer, Aperture=8 f/stop, shutter-speed 1/30th second, loaded with Konica ISO (ASA) 100 Color 135-20 Negative Film (stale film) processed with C-41 Processing Chemicals, and a Type C Print using the RA-4 enlargement paper process, onto a 4X6″ semi-gloss print. The photo was developed late, and the spectrum was washed out. I rescued the photo using Epson’s finest software to equalize and restore the photos at the same time not losing barely any resolution at all.

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Photo #7 taken with a Nikon FE-through a Nikon 26 mm lens, filter=Polarizer, Aperture=8 f/stop, shutter-speed 1/30th second, loaded with Konica ISO (ASA) 100 Color 135-20 Negative Film (stale film) processed with C-41 Processing Chemicals, and a Type C Print using the RA-4 enlargement paper process, onto a 4X6″ semi-gloss print. The photo was developed late, and the spectrum was washed out. I rescued the photo using Epson’s finest software to equalize and restore the photos at the same time not losing barely any resolution at all.

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International Bagpipe Day

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