Originally posted by WPRESTO ...It also partially explains why the music sounds that way...
I wish I was more articulate but i'm going to try anyway
the pipes like good percussion or electric music isn't listened to, it's felt
it's visceral
it stirs your gut (no, Rupert not that way)
don't let your ears get in the way
feel it first
shut off that piece of your brain that tries to put everything in order
imagine listening to a vocalist a but not their words
a good vocalist is just an instrument in the ensemble
you don't need to understand the words of an opera to enjoy it...if it is sung well the words are merely a facet of the totality
I have a fondness for the fiddle (not the violin), the banjo, Dobros and yes the pipes
in their context each are capable of expressing great emotion
you don't hear it...you feel it
when a lone piper plays amazing grace over a grave
whether you knew the dead or not you were probably moved
when hundreds of soldiers charged ahead with one shot and a sharp stick
that wasn't rational
they were moved
moved by the beat of the drums and the skirling of the pipes
translate the process to enjoying good photography
a good picture moves something in the viewer
all the pixel peeping in the world won't reduce the power of a good image
it just reduces the viewer
so, try feeling first