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Bagpipe "Ergo-Harness"™:
Is slippage taking the fun out of your piping? WSPD's new bagpipe harness "puts the weight on your shoulders"!

Discreet, Comfortable, and Functional - That's what they're saying about WSPD's revolutionary new bagpipe harness. Why should only  drummers get it easy? Now pipers too, of all ages, shapes and sizes,  can enjoy the benefits of the greatest innovation to hit the piping scene since the plastic chanter reed - the Ergo-Harness™!

Crafted from aircraft-grade aluminium with nickel-titanium mountings, and weighing only 17 pounds, the Ergo-Harness™ is fully adjustable and has been sculpted in consultation with leading osteopaths and chiropracters to fit most body types. It will give years of piping free from the posture problems and bodily contortions that are the plague of the modern piper.

Special features include:

  • Quick release shackes for easy stops, and special "snap fittings" so the pipes just lock into place when the Drum Major orders "shoulder pipes".
  • A special caliper clamps to the bass drone stock for use with the harness and causes no permanent damage.
  • Choice of six fashion colours including Ancient Hunting Mauve and Modern Piping Pink.
  • Optional waist-belt corset to prevent hernias when playing that special "big reed" - helps acheive a military bearing too!
  • Additional hooks and D-rings for all those extra bits and pieces you can never fit in your sporran.
  • Optional extra water bladder and mouth tube which attaches to the back of the blow stick.

Order now!!! The Ergo-Harness™ has just completed gruelling field tests in Kosovo with the 3rd Battalion Royal Scottish Armoured Canteen Regiment (City of Peebles' Own), where it passed with flying colours. An inflatable prototype is currently in trials for use with Marine regiments and is sure to find favour with pipers in low-lying and flood-prone regions. Avoid the traffic jams with the Jet-pack Ergo-Harness™ scheduled for release in 2002.

Look out for the Ergo-Harness™ at next year's World Championships!

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