A new year, & now the first piping session in nearly a month. The band's sergeant, who's responsible for my current instruction, didn't show, though I heard he'd been out fundraising. The other student near my supposed level claimed my grace notes were better than hers--but then I noted one of the current first-year students apparently playing along with more experienced members to music I hadn't even looked at yet! The pipe major now presented me with the band's entire repertory.