dear piper, what's your age

morten · Post by **morten** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 8:56 am

Got my first practise set when I was 33. Never made it work though, so I started practising regularly about 3 years ago when I finally got something decent. Now I'm 40 and still practising....

Morten

travhicks · Post by **travhicks** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 9:09 am

I'm 30, and I started piping when I was 26, after 6 months or so on the whistle.

fel bautista · Post by **fel bautista** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 9:49 am

Started when I was 30 but stopped for 20+ since I couldn't find any one to help out in So Cal. Got my Martin Preshaw 1/2 set last year when I was 55, so technically I've really been practicing for less than a year

danepiper · Post by **danepiper** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 9:50 am

Why not. I got my first set when I was 34, now I am 48.

Steampacket · Post by **Steampacket** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 9:54 am

I'm 96 years old and started playing the pipes 1 week ago after the thrash metal band I was in broke up. See ya all at Willie Week in July

anima · Post by **anima** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 9:55 am

39, 2 years on the pipes

Schultz1981 · Post by **Schultz1981** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 10:02 am

22, about a month on the pipes

djm · Post by **djm** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 10:14 am

47, 3 years on pipes, but only the last one counts.

Pat Cannady · Post by **Pat Cannady** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 10:19 am

31 going on 12. I started whistle when I was 20 and pipes about a month after my 24th birthday.

Lorenzo · Post by **Lorenzo** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 10:35 am

I started playing flute and whistle when I was around 24, but switched to the uilleann pipes a couple years later when I was around 26...playing a practice set for a couple years, then switching to a full set for about 8 years, then I took a 10 year vacation (I sold my pipes

) and then I bought them back a couple years ago at 46, and now I'm 48.

So, I actually have only been playing the pipes about 12 years.

Ted · Post by **Ted** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 10:49 am

Almost 62. Started GHB @ 14 and UP at 45.

Ted

Rick Hall · Post by **Rick Hall** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 11:15 am

I'm 47 and started 8 months ago.

Rick

John O'Gara · Post by **John O'Gara** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 11:25 am

Just turned 50 in November '03, began piping at 48 but I was looking for something to do with my next 50 years anyway!

fancypiper · Post by **fancypiper** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:03 pm

I turned 64 Dec 30. Got my pipes at 54 years 5 months. I had been playing whistles in the neighborhood of 15 years previously.

Darn, I just realized I have been whistling for over 25 years.

No wonder my bones ache and my ears ring.....

Brian Lee · Post by **Brian Lee** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:04 pm

29. Started playing the pipes at 10:30 pm on March 16th, 2002. At least that's when my own set arrived. I had played on a couple of sets before that.

B~

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