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27th March 07, 09:27 AM
#11
Firstly if you havent had a teacher there is NO way that you can be playing the movements correctly, even with all the books and DVDs in the world Trust me on this, there are several teachers that do lessons via webcam/ over the net etc (Bob Pinkman springs to mind here) Im sure that people can reel of lists of "self taught" pipers and I can sit here and reel off much better pipers who have had lessons, If you want to be a piper you need an instructor, its a simple as that even if it just someone once in a while to get the movements correct. Its unfortunate that many people "teach themselves" and the listen to a trained piper and realise they have to relearn the instrument, Its even more unfortunate that many of these Pipers are In Scotland, Edinburgh is notorious for bad pipers playing in the street "(here are also very very good ones) however the bad ones just rely on tourists not being able to tell the difference. Find a good instructor, get the Logan book , hit the PC for a few months and DONT buy cheap pipes of Ebay.
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