I'm glad you liked the matching bra-and-panty outfit. I usually design clothes for Katie that appeal to myself... but of course, I want her fans to think she looks good too.
In this case, my idea was to base the humor on the outrageous incongruity of bagpipes and "easy listening" music. I love to hear traditional bagpipe music, and some of the bands who have utilized bagpipes as heavy metal instruments, but elevator music? Ugh! No!web-ed wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 9:18 pm I think the funniest part was when Officer Yank, in presenting Bullmoose with some appropriate music to cover the sound of Katie's wailing, ironically chose a bagpipe album by "Loud McLeod". If there's a way to play the bagpipes softly, I don't know what it is (although there is a similar instrument, the name of which eludes me now, in which the player uses his cheeks to replace the bag that I think might be softer than the bagpipes themselves).
I play the dobro and the harmonica, but I'm self-taught and never learned to read sheet music. For this comic, I did a copy-and-paste of a music sheet I found on line somewhere. The song is "Scotland the Brave", a favorite among bagpipe listeners. However, I think it may have been transposed to the key of C for the piano, instead of A, which is the key bagpipes are tuned to. I didn't know how to re-transpose it back to A, so I used it as is.web-ed wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 9:18 pm Curious, I also examined at the music line. No piano within reach, but it looked like a traditional melody that I think is indeed associated with the pipes, and that also might have been used on an Old Spice commercial a long time ago except that I remember it in major (the C's would be sharped) instead of minor (the C-naturals that appear on the staff). I have no idea if those rapid grace notes are really how bagpipe music is notated, never having seen any, but I think everyone has the general idea of what the scene in the Armstrong living room must have sounded like!
The opening line of the Old Spice jingle is very similar to the opening line of "Scotland the Brave". Very observant.
