learning from a teacher vs. teaching yourself

Most people who decide to take up an instrument choose to go to a teacher. Although some people can go along without a teacher and learn the instrument decently well, I advise to anyone interested in playing the bagpipes to try to find a teacher. Almost everyone has heard the expression "practice makes perfect" but a teacher once told me "perfect practice makes perfect". He didn't actually mean that I had to practice perfectly, but he was trying to tell me to play the correct way. Since the bagpipes are such a complex and difficult instrument, it is easy to practice wrong. Since it takes so long to perfect bagpipe movements and tunes it is easier and less time consuming to play correctly the first time. If a person plays it incorrectly, it will take three times as long to learn as if they had just learned it correctly, first to learn it incorrectly then twice more to break the habit and learn it correctly again. A teacher can prevent someone from getting into bad habits and help to speed a piper on their path to becoming better. Going to a teacher helps to have your progress reviewed and to get tips and help from another perspective.