As for choyting etc, it's the gold standard to learn to play
without it,
then choose to include it later if you wish to.
So we could have foregone the entire debate then? grin
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Going back to your initial e-mail, Barry, that many solos used to be
played at NSP gatherings in the early days - at least before 1990,
and now very few choose to stand up on their own before the
gang. -
At that point in time there weren't many expert pipers other