May 7, 2017
A New Beginning! Here we are…nearly at the beginning of another summer. A lot of people, especially younger people, dread this time of year as it signals back to school time. Even as we grow into adults, we still tend to work on this same schedule. The end of...
May 6, 2017
This is a video that I did a while back. I hope you all enjoy it. If you have any questions, please let me know.
May 6, 2017
Recently I had the pleasure of speaking to a pipe band colleague who has been involved with the same pipe band for the last 30 some years. I asked him how his band was doing and he told me that they were burning out. He said that attendance and membership were down....
May 5, 2017
A person becomes a “bagpiper” when they can play a list of tunes on the bagpipe by memory. As I’ve written previously, every tune that we learn to play must be memorized. I recently had a slightly intense discussion with a student because I told him...
May 4, 2017
I was reading a post on a popular bagpipe chat room and ran across a string of messages about a certain type of pipe bag failure. As I was reading these messages, I thought they were funny because the people writing them had no real perspective on bagpipe parts. When...
