How to Play the Bagpipes

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Bagpipes is a sort of operation with like various bits going into your body but um yeah so you have the the bit which you're playing with your your hands which is called the chanter. Then there are three what are called drones that are these big sticks I guess that just come out at the top and they rest on top of you uh rest against your shoulder. The trick to make it sound not terrible is making sure that there's always air going into the drones because the drones give that background kind of and then the tune comes from the chanters.

Is that a confusing title? Hopefully not. As you might expect, it's a little summary of what's included in the episode. To give you some more details, Alastair Budge is the host of a podcast called "English Learning for Curious Minds" and he has created a new audio drama for English learners called "Pioneers of the Continuum". It's a time-travel adventure for English learners, and Alastair asked me to be the narrator for episode 1. In this episode of LEP, we talk about Alastair's story, living in Malta, learning English by immersion, cliches and complaints from English speakers visiting Paris and Alastair's story about playing the bagpipes on the streets of Paris. The audio version includes 30+mins of rambling from me at the end. Enjoy!

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