Pipe Smoker who Plays Keys

[craZivn]

Howdy all from the great white North! Wisco resident here.

I've been smoking pipes for something over a dozen years now, been through a few different phases but for the last year or so I've been smoking the Missouri Meerschaum natural corncob that came free on the bottle of Missouri Moonshine corn whiskey. I think it's an Eaton. I like it because it's cheap, durable and lightweight but the bowl is a little small for my preference.

I don't really collect pipes but I have picked up a NoFalt and also a 50's space-age aluminum job (I think it's called a Torpedo) at rummage sales over the years. I haven't smoked either of them, just bought 'em because they were cool I guess.

I play keyboards in a regional cover band and if the show is outdoors I usually light up on stage. This seems to have made a favorable impression with the audience as I get more compliments on my pipe than on my performance! I haven't decided whether this is a tribute to my phenomenal piping skills or a testament to the mediocrity of my keyboard playing.

I've joined this forum in order to discover new types of tobacco to sample, to see pictures of interesting and unique pipes, to gather knowledge on Meerschaum pipes in particular as I have yet to try that material and, finally, to banter with the community and have a good time. Looking forward to it all!

Ivan

 

[anotherbob]

Howdy all from the great white North! Wisco resident here.

I've been smoking pipes for something over a dozen years now, been through a few different phases but for the last year or so I've been smoking the Missouri Meerschaum natural corncob that came free on the bottle of Missouri Moonshine corn whiskey. I think it's an Eaton. I like it because it's cheap, durable and lightweight but the bowl is a little small for my preference.

I don't really collect pipes but I have picked up a NoFalt and also a 50's space-age aluminum job (I think it's called a Torpedo) at rummage sales over the years. I haven't smoked either of them, just bought 'em because they were cool I guess.

I play keyboards in a regional cover band and if the show is outdoors I usually light up on stage. This seems to have made a favorable impression with the audience as I get more compliments on my pipe than on my performance! I haven't decided whether this is a tribute to my phenomenal piping skills or a testament to the mediocrity of my keyboard playing.

I've joined this forum in order to discover new types of tobacco to sample, to see pictures of interesting and unique pipes, to gather knowledge on Meerschaum pipes in particular as I have yet to try that material and, finally, to banter with the community and have a good time. Looking forward to it all!

Ivan

Reminds me of the best pipe smoking performer I saw was the drummer for Faith No More. Who smoked a pipe through half of one of their shows. Which was more impressive for how physically demanding what his arms were doing at the time.

 

[Doctor Chopper]

Howdy all from the great white North! Wisco resident here.

I've been smoking pipes for something over a dozen years now, been through a few different phases but for the last year or so I've been smoking the Missouri Meerschaum natural corncob that came free on the bottle of Missouri Moonshine corn whiskey. I think it's an Eaton. I like it because it's cheap, durable and lightweight but the bowl is a little small for my preference.

I don't really collect pipes but I have picked up a NoFalt and also a 50's space-age aluminum job (I think it's called a Torpedo) at rummage sales over the years. I haven't smoked either of them, just bought 'em because they were cool I guess.

I play keyboards in a regional cover band and if the show is outdoors I usually light up on stage. This seems to have made a favorable impression with the audience as I get more compliments on my pipe than on my performance! I haven't decided whether this is a tribute to my phenomenal piping skills or a testament to the mediocrity of my keyboard playing.

I've joined this forum in order to discover new types of tobacco to sample, to see pictures of interesting and unique pipes, to gather knowledge on Meerschaum pipes in particular as I have yet to try that material and, finally, to banter with the community and have a good time. Looking forward to it all!

Ivan

Welcome from a fellow piping Sconnie!!



I am located in South Central Wisconsin.

 

[AcesAndEights]

Welcome from Colorado!

 

[RobNYC]

Welcome from New York City!

 

[yanoJL]

Hello Ivan and welcome from California Happy to have you here, friend!

 

[FurCoat]

Welcome from North Carolina

 

[Milverton1868]

Welcome from Pennsylvania!

 

[Lucashly]

Welcome from California.

 

[Jbyrd]

Welcome from Missouri

 

[Kobold]

Welcome from Maryland!

 

[blackpowderpiper]

Welcome from Tennessee!

 

[tobakenist]

Hi and welcome from a String Player from central England.

 

[Epip Oc'Cabot]

Welcome to the forum! A delightful story too! Pipe smokers seem to be more rare than keyboardists…. So that may be why you get more accolades about the pipe than your keyboarding skills, no matter how good they are.

 

[mso489]

I couldn't do both things at once if I could play the keyboard, but since you can, I appreciate your good public image work for pipe smoking. That gives it a youthful boost and a kind of musical cool.

One time I was crossing through an outdoor area where a band was setting up, and I apologized, "Sorry guys, I don't play an instrument." And one of them looked up and said, "Hey, I think we have another band member."

 

[WVOldFart]

Hello and welcome from West Virginia.

 

[trudger]

Welcome from across the lake!

 

[jwussow]

Welcome from Pewaukee, Wisconsin. And I am a musician as well!

 

[kcghost]

Welcome from KC!!

 

[Wet Dottle]

Hello from Colorado. Not a musician, but having great fun pretending to be one: