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Thank you, Lenore

Everyone has been very nice. I find a lot of common interests, not just WoT but other books, music, languages, etc.

Voice and piano gives you an edge over us low brass players! I do have an electric set of pipes I can play with headphones. When I got my full set of Great Highland Pipes the neighbor asked my wife how she could stand it. Her husband had just bought a motorcycle, so my wife snarked back, "At...

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I am just south of St. Louis. Languages are my weak suit, but I found I can do them and it is helpful for travel! Chinese is hard because it's like learning two languages at once. The Pinyin spellings help, but the logograms seem unrelated.

Dunbar is a good Canadian maker of bagpipes and accessories.. I was rather startled when I started getting into the pipes to find that the music was notated and preserved. Of course, all pipers play by memory -- you have no free hands. Piping competitions can be intense about detail. Weird...

An aspiring piper! Do you already play another instrument? Do you read music? Pipers, unlike fiddlers, expect you to be able to read! I recommend a practice chanter before trying the full set of pipes. In fact, I recommend electronic pipes first -- the blowing is a problem! Once you've...

This is my first re-read. I figure at least two years minimum to re-read the series.

Greetings Wise Ones! Let me introduce myself and tell why and how I came to be here. In 2008 my wife had a brain tumor removed and I was homebound with her. I spent my weeks and months quietly reading the Wheel of Time series then. Harry Potter was on hiatus and my favorite librarian...