Thank you for your interest in Victoria Murgatroyd's Piping Tutor. The Piping Tutor consists of five books, plus an exam with an answer key.

The best way to explain the tutor and how it developed is to quote the Victoria's introduction in the Foreword to Book I of the Tutor:

Foreword

"I have written this book out of frustration with the piping world both as a student and a teacher. I had found as a student that piping was very unstructured, and I felt a need to change this in some way. As a teacher, I found I was repeating the same mistakes my tutors made, and my pupils were experiencing similar dissatisfaction that I had felt. However, both myself and my tutors had been and still are left with no option but to continue this pattern of teaching because there are no other options. With the hope to remedy this, I wrote this book. I also hoped to change the ‘teach them everything they need to know in the first month then hope they won’t die of boredom’ teaching method. This is a common teaching method which I have used myself, but have never found it to be effective in conveying ideas. To attempt to change this, I have outlayed a series of weekly tutorials that take both the tutor and the student through piping technique and theory in very small steps. This allows the student to take a small amount of theory and technique, and learn and understand it thoroughly before moving onto something else. I have also included exercises and questions at the end of every tutorial so both tutor and student can make sure they understand the contents of that tutorial. Please note: THIS IS NOT A SELF TEACH BOOK. Piping is far too complicated to attempt alone, with or without a book."
Victoria Murgatroyd

The tutor was originally developed to teach children how to play the pipes, the overall material and approach can be used for adults also, although an instructor wanting to use this tutor for an adult, may want to change some of the tunes used. Please feel free to check Victoria Murgatroyd's Piping Tutor out. These files have been formatted in Adobe Acrobat Reader format (2.0 or later) so that they can be viewed by anyone using a Macintosh, Windows 3.x/95/98/NT, or Unix system. If you don't have Acrobat Reader on your machine, you can download the current version you need by clicking on the Download Acrobat Reader icon, to your right.

Before downloading or using the tutor, please check the release. You are free to use the tutor in accordance with the guidelines in the release. Thanks.

View Piping Tutors I - V
Piping Tutor Book I
Piping Tutor Book II
Piping Tutor Book III
Piping Tutor Book IV
Piping Tutor Book V
Piping Tutor Exam
Piping Tutor Exam Key

Questions and comments regarding Victoria's Piping Tutor should be e-mailed to Victoria Murgatroyd at vmurgatroyd@xtra.co.nz