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Re: Beginners and Instructors

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Pipe Major John Mitchell

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Date Posted: 13:47:31 05/22/03 Thu
In reply to: Scot Kortegaard 's message, "Re: Beginners and Instructors" on 01:55:05 05/22/03 Thu

Big Snip -<

>Good to hear from you too!!!!! Nice to have some civil
>discussion without all the garbage like that on RMMB.
>I'm taking a sabaticle from that loony bin. I'm going
>to wait to see if the drive to expel the local
>troll(s) is successful. We shall see :)

Highly doubt it! Usenet does not consider flame wars to be abusive! Sad!

Back on topic, after reading many posts from all forums, I still see many students struggling in the 3rd year and that's with instruction. Question is, how good is the quality of instruction?

I think some students create a fear of starting on the bagpipe after being on the chanter for over a year.
There's no reason that a beginning student couldn't at least learn to start playing the pipes with just the knowledge of the scale. It's a starting point and everything they learn on the chanter should be learned on the pipes too.

Why wait?

JM

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