The mental health of professional musicians is clearly not in good shape. As reputable studies show, around a third suffer from clinically relevant depression, anxiety disorders or burnout. Suicidal thoughts and attempts are more common than in the general population, and up to half of all musicians suffer from performance anxiety. What is going on […]
If It Was Easy
Playing the bagpipes is exhausting. You just have to fight with the instrument long enough to be able to tame it at some point and make music with it. It happens that such and similar ideas of one’s own instrument as an opponent to be conquered are cultivated by fellow players and confirmed by individual […]