![]() Is it possible to play the pipes if you can’t read music? There were no formal music lessons during school hours, but we were taught to read music as soon as we started in the pipe band. ![]() I assume you had formal musical training then? A few of my friends had gone into the pipe band, so it made sense to follow them. Neither of which were really for me, but, to get out of doing those sports, there was the option of joining the art club, drama club or the pipe band. They encouraged the kids, it was an all boys school, to take up playing either hockey or rugby. I was thirteen and the school that I went to was quite sports focused. My piping actually started back in South Africa. How did you come to be involved with the bagpipes? We came to Portsmouth because I have some family here and it made the most sense as a starting point at least. I’d worked in IT Support for PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) in South Africa, so I joined IBM as an experienced hire. I bought a house with my then girlfriend, and was lucky enough to get job with IBM at North Harbour, Portsmouth. So sixteen, nearly seventeen years out there. So, of course, I got a little bit of teasing, but nothing too bad. I remember it being quite daunting as the new boy from the UK with the English accent. But then, in 1984, when I was just about seven, the family moved to Johannesburg in South Africa. My father is from Florence originally and he eventually settled in the UK. Based in Portsmouth, he plays with The Rose and Thistle Pipe Band and is obsessed, in the best possible way, with promoting and playing the distinctive musical instrument.ĭaniel Del Piccolo – that’s not a common Portsmouth name Playing the bagpipes is not an exclusively Scottish preoccupation.ĭaniel, AKA The Southcoast Piper, was introduced to playing the bagpipes whilst at school in South Africa.
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