HOW TO GET ENDLESS BAGPIPE STAMINA?

HOW TO GET ENDLESS BAGPIPE STAMINA? - VLOG 1.038

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Pipers Dojo

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@kaitib6524 7 жыл бұрын

I can't believe a bagpipe vlog finally exists!! Thanks Andrew, this is so great!

@henryphillips840 7 жыл бұрын

I just got my bagpipes. I'm trying to be able to play for long periods of time.

@RayMainBagpiper 7 жыл бұрын

Learning to play through your drones going out of tune helps your concentration on playing the tune. Also going out in public helps you learn to focus on your playing instead of on what's going on around you, and it's helps you learn to tune your drones. By public I don't mean standing on a corner, just go out and play, random people will find you anyway. LOL

@cathieslabaugh7841 8 жыл бұрын

Two comments: first, have you thought about an electric space heater for the office while you are playing that might be quieter? Second, if your bagpipe stamina lasts longer than 4 hours, please seek immediate medical attention!

@PipersDoJo 8 жыл бұрын

+Cathie Slabaugh funny, just purchased two quiet space heaters yesterday. And, LOL

@RayMainBagpiper 7 жыл бұрын

6 hours continuous playing out busking... could only handle about four hours the next day, and was blown out on the third... BBq on the River, Paducah KY...

@GrahamSFarr 8 жыл бұрын

I really love these vlogs - and you're right - your student did look like Christopher Walken :-)

@jazzman1626 7 жыл бұрын

I got so disillusioned with playing the pipes because of my lack of stamina. It seemed to me that the tips on how to get a set of pipes going efficiently was a closely guarded secret that only pipe majors and sergeants were allowed to know. I started in 1971 and blew as hard as I could and really struggled to keep them going. I felt ashamed. One day, on a bus, when the guys who were allowed to drink were at the pub, a young guy around the same age as me 15, said "have a go at these pipes, they're big Jimmy's" Big Jimmy was a quiet big guy, I mean a big guy, one most guys would think twice about bothering. And I thought "this is going to be a waste of time". Nope! They were absolutely superb! So easy to blow. Easy to tune too. That was before synthetic drone reeds. We were with a grade four band and I had learned to tune my own pipes by myself. As the pipe major went along each of us to check the tone of our pipes, another big guy who's pipes were impossible for me to get so much as a peep out of had to have his drones adjusted. Then pipey came to me. I blew them up, played low a then the pipey tapped my shoulder to say they were fine. The guy with the planks of wood for reeds, was amazed. He said "wtf? his (me) pipes are held together with string and thread, too" I often used cotton thread because I couldn't afford the hemp which meant a bus journey to get it. The point I'm making is, people like Donald MacPherson, John Mac Donald of Inverness who used to blow a very easy reed, my first pipe major who was a Dunblane boy, all played easy reeds. Now, band reeds are, in my opinion, ridiculous which is why I was put off bands. When you consider that a soloist is not sacrificing tone or anything else playing an easy reed and you can hear them easily, why do bands, which have a large number of pipers, blow hard reeds. It isn't for tone and if you can't hear twenty pipers there's something seriously wrong with your hearing. I've spent most of the 30 years of my piping, struggling with hard reeds, some of them sold as easy reeds and it has put me off piping. I sold a set of Mac Callum pipes a couple of years ago although I do still have my 1900s R.G. Lauries though, which were played at the Somme and can't sell them. I would love to see if, after getting a new sheepskin bag on them, I could get them going but only if I could get someone to set them up to play as easily as big Jimmy's I remember from the 70s. I'm wondering if someone from the College of Piping in Otago St. Would do that for me. It's on my bucket list now.

@PipersDoJo 7 жыл бұрын

Try this if you're still struggling: pipersdojo.lpages.co/4questions-01-easy-bagpipe-guide/

@rauberonline 4 жыл бұрын

Hi! It's usefull just blow and stop in some note to practice the blowing? I'm Brazilian and I bought an old and brandless bagpipe. I just final to reform and check the leaks in that bagpipe and now it's ok. Your videos help me a lot!!