The big guns. These are my largest pipes, and will be testing them one by one for maximum smokes for movies, videos, operas, and the like. Started on the left and side, with my Brigham Tundra 026S Rhodesian Biased for English (Lats) and did a standard 3 pack with TobaccoBarns Traditional English, and proceeded to watch Bartok's Opera, Bluebeard's Castle, a post-romantic horror story, in opera form, actually. Lasts an hour. No brainer. The pipe out lasted the Opera by about 20 minutes, so Mike, I et al listened to a few Renaissance Dances to kill the rest of the evening. Hope to have many more like it!
Pipe and tobacco combination was stellar. Anal as usual, I'll be timing each of these pipes with their dedicated fodder over the next while, so I'll probably just keep posting the same picture. From left to right:
Tundra Rhodesian, smoked tonight, far left. Next is my
Brigham Tundra 87, a more upscale Brigham, presented to me by Mike several months ago for getting him into the pipe world. Next is my
Peterson System Standard 301 P-Lip, which has given me my longest smoke so far, 110 full minutes with a Vanilla Cavendish blend, slow and cool smoking. Farthest right is my favourite "el cheapo"
Muxiang, which I've dubbed "Uncle Henry" in honor of Mr. Wilson, Dennis the Menace's pipe smoking next door neighbour. Undesignated, I throw anything into it and it smokes with aplomb. In the very middle, is my
Savinelli Avorio, a beautiful smoking pipe I love to stuff with aromatics, Sunday evenings.
It's going to be a lot of fun tailoring this pipes and their tobaccos to music and other studies and entertainments.
They're all great smokers. Tomorrow night I'll tackle Tchaikovsky's "Iolanthe", a great opera and challege - it lasts 1 hour and 30 minutes. Haven't picked the pipe yet. We'll see !
