learn to play the bagpipes

I’ve learned the Skye Boat Song after a fashion. It is a hard song and I don’t have it ready for performance in front of people but it sounds magnificent.

I learned how to play the bagpipes in just a few months. The hardest part is making the “tween notes” short enough but a month of intense practice took care of that.

So last night I learned how to do grace notes. Went from an e up to a high a repeatedly. Kind of scares the cat though.

I am a rank beginner who at first couldn’t get a note from my chanter. I had it set up wrong at first, thought the reed was supposed to fit on the end of the chanter. Now I can play from low g to high a.