Unfortunately the idea was impressed on me that I could not play any music myself and even more unfortunate: I believed it. So, along comes my daughter with the same feeling towards BagPipe music but she does join a Pipe-Band and she learns to play the "Pipes". My wife joins in and when I retire, so do I.
So, at age 65 my wife teaches me how to use a chanter and 18 months later I purchase my own set of "Pipes". I am still a "newbee", -by all means- , but I can handle the instrument and can memorize the tunes.
I play for pleasure, so I play a lot, if possible every day. It's healthy too, after playing for about an hour you feel like having jogged for an hour.
It takes a good teacher though: my wife!
Here is a tune where we play together: "PipeMajor Jimmy Cairns"
(click on image to hear the tune)
Ceibwr
It is hard to express what it feels like to play the bagpipes out in the open, the two of us, in a place like Bae Ceibwr on the North Pembrokeshire coast. Even without the skirl of the pipes this is an inspiring place: the cliffs, the sound of the waves on the rocks, the calls of the seagulls and in June the blooming gorse and the ubiquitous bluebells.
But then, being able to play the pipe tunes yourself and hearing the unmistakably mystical bagpipe sounds being returned by the cliff walls, is like entering a dreamworld, participating in a movie. But it is real! It makes you feel intensely happy, joyful. That's why we play the bagpipes.
Obviously we played less than perfect, however, we had a real good time there in Ceibwr.
Here we play the tune of the "Eriskay-set"
(click on image to hear the tune)
(click on image to hear the tune)
(click on image to hear the tune)
In October 2013 our daughter Gwennie got married and Noëlla, all dressed up for the wedding played "Highland Cathedral" on the pipes while "Daddy" escorted his daughter to be given away in matrimony
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