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In doing so, I learned a couple of things: first, after a couple of years playing as the University of Chicago Alumni Association Pipes and Drums, the band finally disbanded after the 2000 competition season (their new pipe major, who started after I did, was an English professor there). I also learned that our old pipe sergeant was now living in Alabama and was pipe major of a band out of Birmingham. So, I sent him an email. He wrote back and said that it was good to hear from me again, along with letting me know that his band needed more pipers, hint hint.
It's good to make connections like that.