Posts of news and events from Dojo U
Most of us love wearing the kilt.
Dressing in our pipe band uniform or Scottish Highland wear fills us with pride.
Pipers talk about how comfortable the kilt is, but I’ve never heard anyone say that about their ghillie brogues!
You may have seen the viral news story of the so called 'bagpipe lung'.
Apart from this not being a real thing, what it boils down to is a man in the UK contracted a rare infection that might have been caused by an unclean bagpipe bag.
Whether or not this is true it raises the issue of keeping bagpipes clean and free of disease – something that has never been more important in current times.
For the first time here at Dojo U, we recently rallied our students to form Team Dojo – a 'virtual band' made up from Dojo students all…
As the Tokyo Olympics wrapped up recently, I reflected on how the Olympics are considered a display of peak athletic performance.
The best athletes collect to compete on snow, turf, ice, grass, court, and track – it's an inspirational display of athletics and human physical achievement.
As with any intense activity (including bagpiping), Olympic athletes suffer through mental barriers when trying to stay motivated, keep improving, and attain personal goals.
For centuries, there has been a long-held belief that bagpipes were classified as an instrument of war and were banned in the Act of Proscription of 1746.
The story goes that in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745, culminating in the now infamous Battle of Culloden, possessing a set of pipes or playing bagpipes them was banned.
Unfortunately, history is always far more complicated than we think...
If you are a member of Dojo University or have visited the site, you have no doubt heard about a water manometer. You will also…
Proper hemping of a drone reed seat is just about patience and getting the hemp to conform to the exact shape of the reed seat.…
Presumably to make their reeds "fool-proof" for even the most "hands-off" pipers (and that's putting it nicely...), EzeeDrone and Selbie put rubber sleeves on their…
A recorder is a vital tool for every piper to have and to use. Now, if you’re like most people, you probably hate the idea…
https://youtu.be/Bk7RVw3I8eg This is such a great performance for so many reasons. Whether you like (very) heavy metal or not, you can't deny David Draiman is…
