Thirty years is a long time to carry a desire, but that is how long Lary carried the desire to play the bagpipes.  Lary's musical roots go deep and his love for music is something passed onto him by his parents.

     He began playing his mother's clarinet when he was in the fourth grade in Jones, Oklahoma, but switched to the baritone sax in the eighth grade. In high school, he moved on to the bass drum and served as drum major his senior year. After graduating High School in 1965 he enlisted in the U.S. Army and was promptly assigned to an Army Band where he played the clarinet and the saxophone.  Lary's musical career came to an immediate halt after leaving the army. Time for music was reduced to playing the radio.

Lary's thirty year desire to play the bagpipes began when he attended a performance of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards in 1971. The summers of 1986 & 1987 found Lary working at Scarborough Faire outside of Waxahachie, Texas.  This exposed him to the music and other pipers.  The dream did not become reality until he came across the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards album that he had purchased years ago after attending their concert in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Little did he know he would receive a set of bagpipes for Christmas.