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Speaker 1: Harrison Doak is an incredibly talented local muso. Last month

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Speaker 1: he treeked over to Scotland for the World Pipe Band Championships.

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Speaker 1: Over two hundred bands from fifteen different countries descended, including

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Speaker 1: him as part of the Grade three Canterbury Caledonian. His

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Speaker 1: first big solo overseas trip, and assured me the pipes

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Speaker 1: traveled as carry on, not as checked luggage, so kept

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Speaker 1: a wipe watchful eye on them. No luggage dramas. The

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Speaker 1: conversation also started with a fun travel observation.

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Speaker 2: It takes a long time to get over Australia. Australia's massive,

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Speaker 2: I know, right nuts, So that we got there on

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Speaker 2: the say, Wednesday, Thursday with a couple of practices, Friday

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Speaker 2: with a couple of practices and then Saturday we're into

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Speaker 2: our first contest, so we jumped on the bus headed

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Speaker 2: over to Perth. So we're starting in Glasgow purse about

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Speaker 2: our hour and a half driveway.

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Speaker 1: Would that be like the size of Eshburton?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe a bit bigger okay yeah, and sincially certainly

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Speaker 2: population was a lot bigger as well.

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Speaker 1: Did it explode for this festival? Yes? Yes? So how

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Speaker 1: big is the festival?

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Speaker 2: So it's it's pretty big. Like they have they call

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Speaker 2: it World's Week, so they make a week out of it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and they have this thing called Piping Live which sort

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Speaker 2: of goes goes on throughout the week and it's just

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Speaker 2: full of all sorts of different piping and drumming things

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Speaker 2: they have, like the British Drumming Championships on and we

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Speaker 2: were involved. And so there's like a main drag in

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Speaker 2: Glasgow called Buchanan Street, so like a couple, like maybe

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Speaker 2: three bands a day would parade down Buchanan Street and

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Speaker 2: they get paid for it. So we were one of

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Speaker 2: those bands. So yeah, it was really cool. So you'd

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Speaker 2: start at the top, you play for fifteen minutes, you'd

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Speaker 2: wander down played another spot fifteen minutes and you'd play

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Speaker 2: down there for another like two or three spots.

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Speaker 1: What a cool way to kick some atmosphere.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, he's crowded by people, hot, heaps of people.

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Speaker 1: With the locals loving it, everybody in it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, every every second person you'd see walk down

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Speaker 2: the street would be coming up asking you questions and

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Speaker 2: can we get a selfie? And yeah it's pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, so Saturday we were straight we're over to

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Speaker 2: Perth straight into our first a first contest over this

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Speaker 2: there was the European Championships. It's sort of run like

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Speaker 2: a bit but like the Higher Art of Highland Games.

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Speaker 2: Really it's just like but Higher Art of times ten

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Speaker 2: or one hundred really like it's it's massive. There were

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Speaker 2: like ten different playing boards going at once.

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Speaker 1: It was nuts. Does that make it tough to concentrate

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Speaker 1: on what you're doing?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, certainly can You really got to lock him

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Speaker 2: and like when you're when you're playing around the circle,

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Speaker 2: you warm enough, you're tuning up. You really got a

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Speaker 2: hone and because you can't hear or you've got you've

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Speaker 2: got your band here and then like two meters to

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Speaker 2: the left you got another whole band, and then you've

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Speaker 2: got a band next to them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah it's a Cresindo.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm not sure how many were in our grade. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we've got seventh o rum has won the Drumming Championship.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, that was pretty wicked.

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Speaker 2: And then Sunday I said Sunday off and then back

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Speaker 2: into it Monday, and then Monday was the start of

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Speaker 2: World's Week, so we had the Buchanan Street in there, somewhere,

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Speaker 2: and then Friday was the first day of the worlds,

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Speaker 2: and then our day was Saturday,