This Week in Ebay Bagpipe Finds by Vince Janoski

Ebay is a great place to find enterprising pipehackers hawking their latest creation. A casual search will usually turn up a thingamajig that defies explanation or can leave you speechless. This week in unique Ebay Bagpipe items finds a custom made walking stick that is creatively adorned with a loose bass drone piece for your [...]

On Being an Authentic Bagpiper by Vince Janoski

We all live in our own reality bubbles. We become accustomed to thinking that the way we see things is how they are or how they must be. As active, competing bagpipers, I think we collectively form our own piping reality bubble that influences what we play, what we learn, how we play, and who [...]

Morning Comix: PIPRZ by Vince Janoski

PIPRZ 09272011

Small Tunes: “Big Robert” by Vince Janoski

Not much to say about the tune “Big Robert” other than Rab must have been pretty big to get a tune named after him. More than likely Robert was Raibeart Mor, a respected patriarch or elder master of somesuch, enough so to naturally have a tune to honor him, or maybe he was just the [...]

The Stranglehold of Piping Perfection by Vince Janoski

“Perfection is the enemy of the good.” —Voltaire Modern times have squeezed just about every drop of time we might have to devote to, well, just about anything. Often, we are pressed for time to do everything whether it is one’s job, one’s hobbies, or one’s family life and activities. There is also high pressure [...]

Morning Comix: PIPRZ by Vince Janoski

PIPRZ 09192011

Having Fun = Great Bagpiping = Having Fun by Vince Janoski

One of the best times I ever had listening to celtic music was at a Fest Noz in St. Malo, Brittany. The informal gathering was all music and dance and the players on stage were having as much fun as the dancers on the floor. The music was brilliant. It’s hard to create that kind [...]

This Week in Ebay Bagpipe Finds by Vince Janoski

Ebay is a great place to find enterprising pipehackers hawking their latest creation. A casual search will usually turn up a thingamajig that defies explanation or can leave you speechless. Behold the Bagpipe Mute. I think we’ve all seen a piper or three who could stand to be heard less. At least their hands will [...]