Mbo, just never you mind them as would pick on you. You just keep right on learning the pipes and work your way up to the full set! I admire any one with the fortitude to want to learn what to me seems like a very difficult instrument to play! Never mind those that tell ya that if they were going to blow a pig they surely wouldn't do it in public, or those naybobs who, after listening to you for a while, ask you to play something you know. Especially ignore those that would tell you that you would kill it faster stabbing it with a knife rather than trying to squeeze it to death! Good luck to you!