All the music majors at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh practice side by side in small rehearsal rooms, CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman reports in this week’s Assignment America. That is, all but one. They make Nick Hudson practice in the basement of a whole other building.
Such is the life of America’s only college bagpipe major.
Nick is a sophomore on Carnegie Mellon’s bagpipe scholarship. The school offers it ever year, but Nick is one of the few to ever actually take it.
“There’s something about the sound. You either love it or you hate it,” he says.
Needless to say, it takes a confident kid to do this — or a lazy one.
“It’s only nine notes,” Nick says. “It’s all about how you play those nine notes.”
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