{"id":5645,"date":"2013-08-29T22:41:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T21:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/?p=5645"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:35:07","slug":"border-pipes-and-ben-vorlich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/border-pipes-and-ben-vorlich.html","title":{"rendered":"Border pipes and Ben Vorlich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having a nice new set of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garviebagpipes.co.uk\/info\/pipes\/border_pipes.html\">Garvie border pipes<\/a> to collect from Nigel Richard in Pathhead, what better way to start my Saturday than a quick trip up Ben Vorlich on the way? Which is what I&#8217;d meant to do till my wee walk slyly morphed into a Vorlich\/Stuc a&#8217; Chroin\/Vorlich run, with the return over Vorlich included to 1. get the best run back down the main path when the peak was pretty well on\/in the way anyway and 2. even up my somewhat meagre Vorlich\/Stuc ascent count at three apiece! But not to worry when you can do the lot in three-and-a-half hours and still be down by lunchtime&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So what can I say about the new pipes apart from beautiful, fun and full of exciting possibilities, with (being quality borders) the chromatic scale you can&#8217;t get on smallpipes augmented by my additional high B\/C\/C# keys and the lovely alto drone I got Nigel to make after he nearly talked me into a baritone instead being just what I wanted all the time? Not that I&#8217;m going to abandon my (also lovely) smallpipes, but good times ahead! :-)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013-08-24vorlich.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5648\" alt=\"2013-08-24vorlich\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013-08-24vorlich-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013-08-24vorlich-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013-08-24vorlich.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013-08-29garvie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5647\" alt=\"2013-08-29garvie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013-08-29garvie-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013-08-29garvie-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013-08-29garvie.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a nice new set of Garvie border pipes to collect from Nigel Richard in Pathhead, what better way to start my Saturday than a quick trip up Ben Vorlich on the way? Which is what I&#8217;d meant to do till my wee walk slyly morphed into a Vorlich\/Stuc a&#8217; Chroin\/Vorlich run, with the return [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5645"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11751,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions\/11751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}