Dumb mistakes you've made as a piper

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My current pipe band plays America the Beautiful, but when they get to the end they slow way down. Nobody mentioned this to me. Since we only had five or six pipers at that gig, it was VERY OBVIOUS that I played the ending at tempo and held the last note out to keep my drones up.

I know exactly what you mean....those few seconds it took as I was frantically trying to squeeze the air out, felt like an eternity!!!!