Almost amazingly, I have to report, the second day I tried playing the complete great Highland pipe it actually seemed a little easier! Tune fragments maybe came more coherently, but I can't claim to be comfortable with the effort, & the tenor drones cut out anyway. Took it outside this time while my brother made his own racket in the backyard with a noisy power tool. Evidently my chanter was loud enough (with the door closed) in the house that my aunt, talking to my mother there over the phone, could hear it through the receiver. For some reason she ostensibly thought it was good!