Intensive Courses
The National Piping Centre offers Intensive courses for pipers of any age.
Intensive courses are offered over a Monday - Friday week, and you can opt for 1, 2 or 3, 50 minute lessons per day, working on specific topics that you would like to cover.
These lessons are a great way to improve your playing in a short space of time, working with a teaching team on your tunes, improving your technique and more.
We dont recommend these courses for complete beginners, so if you have want to discuss your playing standard to see if this course would be right for you please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
To book your intensive course, please complete the online booking form and you will then be contacted by The National Piping Centre to confirm the dates as per the form or to suggest alternatives. We can also try to take into account which teachers you would like to be taught by.Â
The Intensive Courses are available throughout the year with a few exceptions. We cannot take a course when we have an internal or possibly an external school, during the week of Piping Live! or between Christmas and New Year.
Currently these courses will take place online. However, we hope that we can return to teaching at our McPhater Street and Otago Street Campuses very soon.
Course Costs:Â
Pipers aged 16+
1 lesson per day - ÂŁ140
2 lessons per day - ÂŁ270
3 lessons per day - ÂŁ400
Pipers aged U16
1 lesson per day - ÂŁ120
2 lessons per day - ÂŁ230
3 lessons per day - ÂŁ330
Hearing Protection
The National Piping Centre requires all students to use hearing protection at all times when playing pipes. Hearing protection is available for purchase in our shop or free of charge from the earplug dispenser in both our piping school venues.Â
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