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Home/Library/Tone & Tuning/How to Master Steady Blowing: The #1 Skill Every Piper Needs for a Great Bagpipe Sound
🎥 Video LessonIntermediateFree Preview📅 Posted October 2, 2023· 68m

How to Master Steady Blowing: The #1 Skill Every Piper Needs for a Great Bagpipe Sound

The Short Version

Steady blowing is really steady pressure, and pressure is maintained by the arm, not the lungs. I explain that because you breathe intermittently, only your arm can hold constant pressure on the bag; blowing simply inflates the bag and push the arm out, it never relaxes off it.
The Bagpipe Gauge turns a feeling you can barely sense into something you can see. By reading actual bag pressure on a dial, you can catch the exact moments your pressure dips, most often right before you start a breath, and train the correct shoulder and upper-back muscles instead of compensating with your bicep or wrist.
Your high A tells you the one correct pressure for your reed. High A has the narrowest range of pressures that sound good, so dialing in your gauge reading on a clean, ringing high A gives you the target number for everything else you play.
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