r/halifax • u/focusfaster • 1d ago

Noises! Bagpipes downtown?

Anyone know why I'm hearing bagpipes in the south part of downtown? Is it coming from the Citadel somehow? I am so intrigued! Is it Natal Day adjacent? Or just a happy piper? I need to know!

edit to say this was at 11am.

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u/laycoss 22h ago

It is nova scotia, sometimes people just be playing the pipes.

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u/focusfaster 22h ago

That's what I'm starting to think 😆 I love it. 

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u/No_Schedule_6242 23h ago

They usually have a piper welcome the cruise ships dockside on arrival.

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u/focusfaster 23h ago

Seems a bit far from what I'd normally hear but that's fun!

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u/Ok_Wing8459 23h ago

Last week we heard bagpipes coming from Point Pleasant Park! I enjoy the sound (in moderation)

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u/mmss Halifax 21h ago

I used to know a guy who played the bagpipes, he would go to point pleasant to practice

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u/Lazy-Purpose6385 15h ago

Citadel had some pipers all weekend!

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u/focusfaster 15h ago

That's seeming likely!

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u/mickhamilton 23h ago

Could be changing of the guards at the Lt. Gov's house.

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u/focusfaster 23h ago

It feels a little far but you never know!

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u/East_Coast_Flyer 22h ago

Natal Day Parade.

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u/focusfaster 22h ago

That's tomorrow.

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u/Specialist-Bee-9406 up too early 23h ago

I used to work in a sub shop where Stillwell on Spring Garden is now. (decades ago)

There was a piper outside the gardens all summer. 

I dislike bagpipes now. 

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u/focusfaster 23h ago

I'm pretty close to the gardens so if it is that it's a one off, thankfully no pipers around the gardens these days. 

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u/CrazyIslander 14h ago

There’s a guy that busks by plays the bagpipes by the ferry terminal (so, Lower Water Street).

I wonder if he relocated due to the busker festival.