Quote Originally Posted by EagleJCS View Post
Off topic:
This reminds me of other issues pipers face, like volume.

Potential client (PC): "Can't you just blow softer?"
I could have done that when I (sort of) learned to play the pipes in my college's band, but with the obvious unimpressive expected outcome. I DID manage to learn 3 marches on the practice chanter, but I couldn't keep the bag inflated unless I plugged the drones with wine corks!

Fortunately, we had a REALLY talented Pipe Major. He was also an intercollegiate swimmer, and he happily regaled us about a drunken swimmer's party he attended WITH his pipes at a little university 40 miles south of us (athletic mascot: "Handsome Dan.)" One of ITS swimmers was a very famous Olympic Medalist (Don Schollander), and I was happy to learn that HE couldn't keep the bag inflated, either (of course, in Schollander's case, the problem likely was situational, related to the "nutrients" available at the party.