Pipers, a totally bizarre question

[Jack Daw]

I strongly, STRONGLY suspect that the very best pipers in the entire WORLD...

...practice with regularity, their crunluaths, D throws, grips and tuarlaths.

I'm forty years into playing clarinet, and though I'm not playing right now I still practice scale and interval exercises on a regular basis when I am playing.

I forgot to mention playing with expression. It's expected of a good piper.

AND, can you play music that has no time signature? Welcome to the ancient world of piobaireachd. The proper way to learn this old classical music for the pipes is to listen to another piper play it. But still, the adjudicator may say your playing this note or that note too fast or slow even though you've timed yourself along with PM Donald McLeod. ARRRGGGHHH! But, it's my favorite of all pipe music. I know of no others who like to listen to it other than another piper. So, I play piobaireachd mainly for my selfish self.

MOREOVER, play four grace notes before a note while playing a fast reel, hornpipe, or jig.