Bagpipe Comix: PIPRZ by Vince Janoski

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Pipehacker Tip: Create Your Bagpipe Practice Infographic by Vince Janoski

Do you know what it is you spend your time on? Previously, I’ve talked about treating your bagpiping like finance and money and taking stock of your intangible assets. Well, also like finance, you also must take stock of your spending if you are to see where your money goes. Like money, time is an [...]

Bagpipe Comix: PIPRZ by Vince Janoski

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Small Tunes Podcast: “The Witch’s Stane” by Vince Janoski

This moving and poignant slow march appears in only one place in print as near as I could discover, and that is in the J & R Glen Collection, first published in 1870. The witch’s stane mentioned in the title is a small stone that stands in the garden of a cottage in the western [...]

Small Tunes: Vintage Melodies from the Bagpipe Tradition 004 The Witch's Stane [ 4:57 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (568)

Bagpipe Comix: PIPRZ by Vince Janoski

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Confucius Schools Bagpipers by Vince Janoski

“Learn as though you would never be able to master it; Hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.” —Confucius

NY Times Publishes an Article on Music Learning on the Internet—With Bagpipes! by Vince Janoski

Wait, I think I just saw a pig sprout wings! I need another cup of coffee. Today’s NY Times features an article about distance learning on the internet that features not one, but two Highland bagpipe teachers doing such things! Jori Chisholm was one of the first, if not the first bagpipe teacher to offer [...]

Assessing Your Intangible Bagpiping Assets by Vince Janoski

In the world of finance, assets are any resource, tangible and intangible, in your control, that can produce value. In the world of bagpiping, your assets would be anything you can access and use to produce music. The ultimate return or gain in this sense is playing good music on the bagpipe and anything that [...]