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Highland Pipes Drop-in Help Session

These Thursday sessions are open to anybody who plays the Highland Pipes.

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January 9, 2025

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7:15 pm

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$

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Littlefield Celtic Center

1124 Cleveland Ave. Mount Vernon, WA 98273

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Highland Pipes Drop-in Help Session

Highland Pipes Drop-in Help Sessions at the Littlefield Celtic Center

These Thursday sessions are open to anybody who plays the Highland Pipes. Our focus will be primarily on fundamentals such as: Instrument Maintenance, Tuning, Attacks/Cut-offs, Steady Blowing, Reed Calibration, and Playing Music on the Highland Pipes. These sessions will not follow a set curriculum. The focus of each session may shift depending on the needs of attendees. In every session, there will be time devoted to playing tunes on the highland pipes as a group.

Each drop-in session will take place on Thursdays between January and March, 7:15pm-8:30pm.

Students can pre-pay for sessions online in 1, 4, or 8 session packs (see below), or they can be paid for in-person at the sessions.

Dates Offered:

Thursday, January 9
Thursday, January 16
Thursday, January 23
Thursday, February 6
Thursday, February 13
Thursday, February 20
Thursday, February 27
Thursday, March 6

Instruction provided by Zephan Knichel and Vienna Scheyer.

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Zephan Knichel

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Instructor Zephan Knichel has been a grade one band player since 2003. He formerly played with Alberta Caledonia and is currently in his ninth season with the SFU Pipe Band. Zephan is an active solo competitor in North America and Scotland. In 2022 Zephan won the Boney Invitational and was the runner up for the BCPA Open Piping Grand Aggregate Award. Zephan made the prize list in several competitions in Scotland, was the Champion Piper at the Crieff Highland Gathering and won the “B” grade Hornpipe/Jig at the Northern Meeting in Inverness. Zephan is a full time bagpipe instructor. He was an instructor with the RMM organization for 7 seasons and continues to lend a hand when he is in town. Zephan is a regular instructor at the Piping Hot Summer Drummer schools.

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Vienna Scheyer

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Vienna plays bagpipes with the grade 2 Cascadia Pipe Band in Seattle. Her first instrument is the fiddle, and she plays smallpipes too. She brings a unique perspective with one foot in the pipe band world and the other in traditional music, and aims to give students a foundation to enjoy playing music in whatever settings they find fulfilling.