That's rather taken out of context! One of the examples, of course, is Ian Lynch.

"It takes a long time before you can produce anything that is more than noise," Ian says. "What Ian did - which is take up the pipes in his 20s, and get as good as fast as he did - is amazing," Peat avers. "Nobody takes up the pipes in their 20s because it's just so hard."

She's just emphasising how difficult an instrument it is to learn to play.