In Isaac Asimov's classic sci-fi novel, Foundation and Empire, there's a musical instrument called the Vizi Soner that can create visions in the minds of its

listeners.

It can put them into trances, stimulate their emotions, and even later in the book, be used as

a deadly weapon.

Kind of just sounds like a set of bag pipes to me, but what do I know?

I'm not an award-winning sci-fi author. And the Welcome to Strong Songs a Podcasts, about Music. I'm your host Kirk Hamilton and as always I'm so glad that you join me to talk about fictional music. I'm your host Kirk Hamilton and as always I'm so glad that you

join me to talk about fictional musical instruments and real musical instruments and

well mostly just real musical instruments. We're going to be doing something a

little bit different on this episode talking about fictional worlds and the music that emanates from them.

Support yourself a beverage. Turn up the volume and enjoy the show. bagpipes always get a hard time because yes they can be sort of a terrible

sounding instrument if they're played badly but they can also be really cool.

I grew up in Indiana and did marching band in high school.

And there was another high school in our state.

They were the Anderson Highlanders.

And they had bagpipes in their marching band.

This was not a common thing for Indiana High School marching bands, but there was just this one band and they would wear kilts, and they would come out with the bagpipes, and they would write their arrangements. They would do their marching routines around this bagpipe section that would come out.

They were a really good marching man and it was always so cool.

I just, I remember every time we would go to a competition, you know, my high school would go

and they would be there, we would all make a point of going to watch just because it was so fun to watch them do their thing.

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