First posted Aug 21st, 2012 by newpiper
Yet another post without a recording...
Found half an hour to play this evening before I
needed to start cooking. It has been a bit warm of late for playing, so it
seems like a while. Fought with the bellows connector for a while until I
realised that the last time the tube had come off the connector I'd managed to
put the connector into the tube back to front...
I deliberately didn't get any sheet music out. I managed
bits of Banks of Allen, the whole of the A part of Barren Rocks,
ditto Castle Dangerous. Even with the fan playing it for me I totally
failed more than a couple of chunks of Home Town (the first two notes
are the same as the castle so I kept going in to that instead). Barra
just wouldn't come to me. The Highlanders...well, they are coming on.
Anyway, considering this is the first I've tried by
heart from a standing stop, as it were - that is, I've not just that moment
played from dots - I don't think it was too bad a showing.
Still dithering over the exact spec for my new set
of pipes and pestering Mr Kinnear with random questions.
Ramblings of an easily distracted learner piper
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