BARRISTER WHO PLAYS BAGPIPES.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 2775, 17 October 1923, Page 7

BARRISTER WHO PLAYS BAGPIPES.

NEIGHBOURS RETALIATE.

A law comedy is diverting a once quiet neighbourhood of a South-West London suburb.

One of the residents, a barrister, seeks solace from briefs by playing on the bagpipes. On each side of him lives a solicitor, neither of whom en. joys the bagpipes in action, and, protests being met fcvith rebuffs, they have tried means of compelling counsel to refrain from indulging in, what they regard as his barbaric taste in music.

One solicitor invested in a secondhand gramophone with cracked records; the other bought a cornet, with the intention of practising "The Heart Bowed Down" with variations.

These desperate remedies, however, proved a failure; for not only, did the bagpipes of the barrister triumphantly drown the quivering cries of the gramophone and the spasmodic blasts of the eornet, but the wives of the solicitors declared that the cure was worse than the '.*

The two solicitors are how wondering whether a scratch band, playing outside the barrister's door, would have a discouraging effect. Other residents are putting their money on the bagpipes.