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I have a new student. She is a beginner on the Anglo with a C/G Rochelle and without much experience at instrumental music or theory. One of her interests is in joining her husband and son in playing Scottish tunes. They play bagpipes in a traditional band and the husband suggested that she learn The Rowan Tree and they would play it on the small pipes with her as a family project. The husband is not a very experienced piper or knowledgable musician and I need some help in making this work for them. I know about music and the concertina, but not much about the small pipes. It seems that their small pipes play tunes in the key of A, with a flattened 7th, i.e. the Mixolydian mode in A. This is not what I usually start my beginning students on but it's quite doable on the C/G. Still there are lots of details that I need to fill in for them and simplifications I would like to use to make it easier for her and also missteps I would like to avoid in arranging concertina pieces that fit with their needs. Are any of you squeezers here Scottish pipers too, who might be able to advise me? For instance, The Rowan Tree. The example the husband gave is here as played by piper Tom Jamieson. As all traditional musicians know, there are lots of ways to play a tune. Is this a good example of that tune or one that is eccentric? If I wanted to simplify it for my student; any suggestions about what could be left out? I'm not going to include all the grace note ornaments (at least at first) and focus on just the basic tune, but in looking and listening on the web I hear that there are many slightly differing versions of that. So, any assistance would be greatly appreciated.