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" ... They were for us, as kids, the perhaps ultimate bonding experience. If you and your siblings had had to go to church every Sunday dressed in kilts with your friends snickering at the sight of you all in skirts—or spent your Saturday mornings under the exasperated gaze of a greying Pipe Major—you could begin to understand why all of us are so close. If you’ve survived that together, you can cope with anything . . . almost. The bagpipe lessons were also our first lesson in incentive-, risk-reward-based capitalism. Duncan came on Saturday mornings, and we didn’t receive our allowances until Saturday afternoon. The risks of not practicing were immediately felt in the pocketbook. Needless to say, we all learned to play—after a fashion. It wasn’t until I became a father myself that I came to realize that the seemingly rapt attention during, and applause of our parents’ friends after, our “performances” had nothing to do with the noise they had suffered through—but, rather, reflected their appreciation of this triumph of parental will which they had just witnessed. ... "
" ... This is similar to the Scotch whisky industry’s preoccupation a generation ago with kilts and bagpipes in marketing Scotch whisky. Spain’s brandy producers need to market their product to appeal to a more cosmopolitan buyer, while still preserving its essential Spanish character. ... "