Almost 30 Years of Teaching Bagpipers! Almost 30 years ago, I started my “bagpipe business” at The Neshaminy Adult School, a local night school program. On the first night, 15 students showed up wanting to learn to play the bagpipes. “Wow,” I thought. “What am I going...

It’s been my experience that most of my students don’t become bagpipers because they want to play at events.  My average student comes to me because he/she is curious about playing the bagpipe.  Once I get them to the point where they can play something, a family...

Today, we're going to talk about the power of 8/16. So, what does that mean? Well, if you’re familiar with fractions, you know that 8/16 simplifies to 1/2. Half of 8 is 4, and half of that is 2 — which leads us to 2/4 time, the standard time signature for many bagpipe...