On day 10 of the February Piping Challenge Finlay MacDonald, Director of Piping at TNPC, discussed the technique of playing strikes, and explained how strikes are one of the three fundamentals when initially learning to play. Finlay’s video can be viewed again here on The National Piping Centre’s Facebook page.

Dan Nevans returned to presenting on days 11 and 12 of the February Piping Challenge to discuss the techniques of striking-in/steady blowing and the pipe band attack. Both videos can be found on here on The National Piping Centre’s Facebook page.

This evening, February 13, Dr Andrew Bova will give a presentation on the topic of Jigs, and can be watched from 6pm onwards on The National Piping Centre’s Facebook page. Remember to record your playing and tag your social media posts with #PIPESOUT22.