I want pipes!

**beloitpiper** · 28th February 07, 07:27 PM

Bradley, your previous musical experience will help with learning the chanter and the tunes, buuuut the hardest challenge you will have to overcome (and trust me on this one) is learning that the sound comes from your arm and not your mouth.

As you well know, woodwind instruments will stop making noise when you stop breathing. Not true with pipes. It took me months to adjust. It's tough to re-wire your brain to breath when you need to (not when it is convenient for the music) because, in pipe music, there are no rests!

**Tattoo Bradley** · 28th February 07, 08:43 PM

Originally Posted by beloitpiper

Bradley, your previous musical experience will help with learning the chanter and the tunes, buuuut the hardest challenge you will have to overcome (and trust me on this one) is learning that the sound comes from your arm and not your mouth.

As you well know, woodwind instruments will stop making noise when you stop breathing. Not true with pipes. It took me months to adjust. It's tough to re-wire your brain to breath when you need to (not when it is convenient for the music) because, in pipe music, there are no rests!

I have been trying to program my mind for this, and I just gave up and figure I'll work it out when I began to "wrestle the Scottish Octopus"

**haukehaien** · 1st March 07, 05:29 AM

It took me months to adjust. It's tough to re-wire your brain to breath when you need to (not when it is convenient for the music) because, in pipe music, there are no rests!

I find that to be the thing that I have the most difficulty with in transitioning a tune from the PC to the pipes.