Well, isn't this amusing: Blogger managed to eat my post again, despite my supposedly recovering it (nice feature if it worked)! No one informed me that "Save as Draft" might mean "Flush Down Etoilet."

OK, on to my reconstruction. The band, if such it still is, has begun meeting in its new home, actually that of its sponsoring institution, a school of art/music established within the last ten years in the building formerly housing our town's leading funeral home. It so happens that the other guy in my piping "class" used to work here in his family business; now his HQ is the firm's new facility just down the avenue from my family's house. (In another, goofier coincidence, their competition moved a few blocks to a spot you can see from the other side of our property!) Regrettably our third newly-recognized piper has quit, at least as far as the band business goes. Whether our band will diminish to a club remains a question.