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[Pyper]

"To the make of a piper go seven years of his own learning and seven generations before. If it is in, it will out, as the Gaelic old-word says; if not let him take to the net or sword."

The opening lines of Neil Munro's novella, The Lost Pibroch. It's a fun story, but the opening is a poetic musing from a Victorian novelist, not a scientific fact..

If you're in the US, you can read the book on google:

http://books.google.com/books?id=LRw...page&q&f=false


To the OP: what everyone else says -- get a teacher first. You can easily teach yourself to be a bad piper, but piping is a hard thing, so it makes more sense to use that same effort and become a decent piper.

[ScoutPiper]

Kilt-alope, I to am an Antelope. The video on YouTube is me. Give me your email and I will send you the music. I will try and attach it to my YouTube video this weekend. Along with comments from everyone else, get an instructor. I taught myself the basics...then had to relearn everything once I got my instructor. I sound so much better now and can pick up other tunes much faster.