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Today's post is Part 6 of our ongoing series How to achieve a world-class bagpipe sound. It was also published in my "Sound Technique" column of the August 2013 edition of Piping Today, the former official magazine of Scotland's National Piping Centre. Check out Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5. How to achieve a world-class bagpipe sound Part 6: Steady Pressure Pipers who consistently achieve world-class tone have are masters at keeping consistently steady bag pressure. What most pipers refer to as steady blowing might be more correctly described as steady bag pressure. Blowing is intermittent but the proper use of the arm allows you to maintain a constant pressure within the pipe bag as the volume or air in the bag changes. A piper’s ability to precisely control their bag pressure is the single most important skill needed to achieve a world-class bagpipe sound. even the world’s best set of pipes, with ...