Jul
17
2007
The sweetest sound; A well-played bagpipe ‘will give you chills down your spine,’ says the Scottish Pipe Band’s Allan Ash
Posted by: Pipe Major in News
You’ll need a good set of lips. Steady air supply. An ear for music. And quick fingers.
And that’s about it.
You certainly don’t have to be Scottish. Heck, you don’t even have to roll your r’s or regularly pepper your vocabulary with words like wee, laddie or auld.
The Scottish Club Pipe Band welcomes anyone.
And as long as you have a genuine interest and desire to learn (and, yes, practise), they’ll have you playing Scotland the Brave without driving people from the room in no time.
True, bagpipes can be tough to master, says Allan Ash, the band’s pipe major.
They can be rather unforgiving. Especially since they exist at one volume: really, really loud.
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