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Don't use the runway very often anymore, but still crosswind across highway by the open field and walkway across from MP gate/shack
a78jumper said:As an ex QM of the Guards, those greatcoats are heavy and presumeably warm. However have you ever heard a band, especially brass , play in cold weather? Not pleasant.
Having stood outside on the Parade Square at RMC a number of mornings when it was well into the -20Cs still air temp ( and the wind always blows in Kingston it seems), let me state it was damn cold, even with a greatcoat, and shetland lamb hats and gloves. I guess these are kindler gentler days, less that nasty old war in Afghanistan, for the CF as a whole.
bannerman said:Isn't the band thing a bit of a red herring? Does inspecting the guard of honour require a band or pipes? Seems to me it has more to do with a slacker GG and a lazy DND.
bannerman said:Isn't the band thing a bit of a red herring? Does inspecting the guard of honour require a band or pipes? Seems to me it has more to do with a slacker GG and a lazy DND.
bannerman said:Isn't the band thing a bit of a red herring? Does inspecting the guard of honour require a band or pipes? Seems to me it has more to do with a slacker GG and a lazy DND.
ffhammer said:November 11/ 1985 my Pipe Band was playing at the local cenotaph. -23 with 50km winds. Me in a kilt, glengarry, and no gloves (obviously).
So cold, in fact, that we had to replace 2 leather bags due to freezing and cracking.
Why did we stand out there playing in that weather? So that 24 years later, I'd have a great cold weather story!
ArmyVern said:All that being just your opinion of course.
One which, by the way, I don't happen to be in agreement with you on.
recceguy said:Don't feed the troll Vern.
ffhammer said:November 11/ 1985 my Pipe Band was playing at the local cenotaph. -23 with 50km winds. Me in a kilt, glengarry, and no gloves (obviously).
So cold, in fact, that we had to replace 2 leather bags due to freezing and cracking.
Why did we stand out there playing in that weather? So that 24 years later, I'd have a great cold weather story!
bannerman said:troll? oh, I geddit. If I disagree with DND policy, I am not entitled to an opinion.
We played to the Cenotaph and then stood. When it was time to leave, we marched with pipes down, since, as you asid, nothing was working. Younger members rode back to the Legion in cars, while we die hards marched.Piper said:Were you playing continuously or were the pipes not played for any period of time? Because I can tell you that after even a few minutes in the cold the reeds would freeze up from the moisture and would sound like the pipes from hell, if they made any noise at all.
And where on earth were you when it was -23 in November? Baffin Island?