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   Vickie Gray (graymattergrcltd@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 08:50:50 JST Vickie Gray

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   @lemgandi @paraplegic_racehorse @Moosjazz @pluralistic Great Highland Bagpipe player here. Closing the holes may be similar, or at least once you figure out which fingers are up and down for each note, it’s straightforward.

   But I would challenge any recorder player to master mistake-free bagpipe embellishments at tempo, in all idioms. That means the fingers that need to be up are up, and the fingers that need to be down are down, and there are never any “ghost” notes, or “crossing noises.”

   The National Piping Centre in Glasgow has a free tutorial series demonstrating the 56 embellishment techniques in their beginner tutor book. Beginner, mind you. https://www.thepipingcentre.co.uk/learn/one-to-one/complete-highland-tutor-book-video-exercises

   Put those all together, in a set of 120 bpm strathspeys. From memory. While blowing and squeezing the sheepskin bag that feeds air to the 4 cane reeds.

   But, what do I know.