News; http://www.e-m-s.com/exhib/exstart.html Early Music Society exhibition at the Royal College of Music 27,28,29th October.

The Highland Pipe and Scottish Society, 1750-1950 by William Donaldson - Tuckwell Press, East Lothian, Scotland, 2000  -   This is the book that brings it all together. Copious examples of the different manuscript versions - read it with your chanter at your elbow - and a balanced account of what really happened.  A good review is at; http://www.piperanddrummer.com/reviews/default.asp?aID=1160  The Glasgow College of piping sells it on-line http://college-of-piping.co.uk  - Excellent, bought it in Thins, Aug 200 - thoroughly recommended.

What Allan MacDonald is saying about tracing Pibroch back to the language of its source is particularly interesting. Edinburgh Library has the thesis, complete with a tape of case studies to accompany the text. (some of the results can be heard on the recent CD 'Fhuair mi Pog' with Margaret Stewart from http://www.musicscotland.com/acatalog/MusicScotland_com_Margaret_Stewart___Allan_MacDonald_107.html) An Interview with Allan MacDonald on the  Roots of Piping being in the language of Gaelic at http://www.ccep.org/ambraighe/noframes/pipingnf.html

A rebuttal of Campsie's effective dismissal of the MaCrimmon legend  http://www.ozemail.com.au/~riainind/bjmo.html
brief description of the history of pibroch from the sleeve notes at Lismore http://www.lismor.co.uk/piobaireachd.html

The Hardware

GHB

">http://www.kasslar.com/carl/Bagpipe_FAQ.htm The Bagpipe FAQ - Fairly comprehensive list of answers to most questions

http://www.hamishmoore.musicscotland.com/essay.htm#intro Comparison of Highland, Border, Reel and Small pipes by a maker of some repute. Quite expensive examples here but he has a staff of 7 - so the waiting list shouldn't be too long.

http://www.hobgoblin.co.uk/local/secondha.htm second hand instruments

Lowland, Northumbrian, Border and Smallpipes

http://www.nspipes.co.uk/nsp/ww5make.htm A list of makers with prices, waiting lists and phone numbers.

http://pweb.netcom.com/~crfowler/direct.htm   the Scottish Smallpipers page - John O'Boyle and Sue Johnson Johns' Scottish smallpipes are in A and D - Sues' Scottish smallpipes are in A and D Hessle East Yorkshire: A session led by them at the Hase Public House, Hessle, alternate tuesdays each month all welcome email john@oboyle.karoo.co.uk to confirm dates.

http://www.nspipes.co.uk   Northumbrian Pipers Homepage and catalogue and the Northumbrian Pipers Society

http://www.nspipes.co.uk/nsp is the site of Barry and Julia Say, with list of makers, advice on keys and types of chanter

http://www.scottishproducts.com/BagpipesGalore.htm practise pipes - real fun

The Rest of the World

http://www.ancestral.co.uk/ Medieval bagpipes and instruments for the performance of popular early and medieval music. Good range of sound files(Wav), particularly single reed chanters as well as they more common double reed. Good informative site.

Estonian

http://www.users.on.net/kustas/torupill Estonian Bagpipe

Hungarian

http://geocities.datacellar.net/Nashville/Opry/4652/Duda/sample.html for Hungarian pipes - the Duda. Page built by Miolngavie GHB piper.  Also some good pictures on http://www.mcn.org/2/oseeler/bagpipes/pipe0012.html

Irish

Italy

http://www.zampogna.org/ a sort of cultural project for the Molise area 'Living with the Bagpipe' based in Scapoli - looks interesting but difficult to understand not least because of the translation.   There is also a very short sound file

Homemade

http://www.mimf.com an interactive forum for the discussion of musical instrument design, construction, and repair

Electric Chanter/wind synth/midi-controllers

http://www.nwlink.com/~bob/mtools.html I think an 8 hole midi tube must be easy to make- why are they so expensive. This might be the book that shows me how to make one

http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~andrew/wind/   and http://www.musicianstechcentral.com/synths.html   with loads of midi info, the Wind Synth Society is at http://windsynth.org/home.html

http://www.mhs.mendocino.k12.ca.us/MenComNet/Business/Retail/Larknet/ElecChanter Electric chanter for $250

http://www.songsea.com/pipes.htm electronic chanters (3 sorts)

http://www.deger.com/ The only one with MIDI - at this price maybe a wind synth is better value

http://www.yamaha.com/cgi-win/webcgi.exe/DsplyModel/?gMCD00005WX5 Yamaha wind synth - the WX5

Harps

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~arco/   Clarsach Society in Edinburgh

http://www.odilia.ch/harp-life/index.htm a large harp web, events, research, types etc. and links with HARPA newspaper

http://www.mhs.mendocino.k12.ca.us/MenComNet/business/retail/larknet/ArtCelticHarpHistory potted harp history

http://www.primenet.com/~lconley/index.html For various historical reasons, harping almost died out by the end of the 18th century, and the music, never written down, was lost. Good new instruments are now being made and Comunn na Clarsaich (the Clarsach Society) has encouraged a great revival of interest in the instrument, especially amongst young players, who enjoy its adaptability to solo work, accompaniment or ensemble playing. The Society's Edinburgh Branch supports na Clarsairean - a harp orchestra of more than 30 players

http://www.cali.co.uk/highexp/Ardival/index.htm the Clarsach and other harps - and classes

http://www.clarsach.net Barnaby Brown again, with teaching and historical links

http://www.harp.net/ an Irish site with listings of festivals and courses and albums

Other instruments

http://www.fastlane.net/~rbeckham/ Rudimental drumming - separates the men from the boys

http://www.hurdygurdy.com/hg/hghome.html HUrdy Gurdy making, history and some good links

http://www.sunreed.com bamboo saxophones and other bizarre concoctions

http://homepage.eircom.net/~bronzeagehorns/index.html Bronze-age horns from Ireland

Sardinia

Reeds

http://www.uilleann.com/reeds.html reed making and adjusting

http://www.evansweb.co.uk/pipes/chantreed.htm reed making from the LBPS (http://www.netreal.co.uk/lbps/ )

http://www.bagpipers.co.uk/index.html plastic chanter reeds - £25 each, drone reeds £30 each - 6mths g.

http://www.henderson.reedmakers.dial.pipex.com/price.htm Henderson reeds and Nail Pipes

http://www.ozemail.com.au/~riainind/ plastic reeds from Australia by Indian and Cairns

Reed making http://kendaco.telebyte.com/cburns/reeds.htm   (Uillean)

http://geocities.datacellar.net/uilleann_pipe_reeds another Uilean reed maker

http://space.tin.it/musica/seperra/ Sardinian reed cane supplier

http://www.bdrs.demon.co.uk/ British double-reed society - and big brother http://www.canit.se/~chrisdav/index.html basoon reeds and more

http://idrs.colorado.edu/ International Double reed Society

http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/misc/org/doublereeds/general/cane.html Arundo Donux Essay from US Dept of Agriculture

http://www.oboe.org/donax.htm Another essay on the Californian variety

Some Software

Pipes

http://www.trytel.com/~piobmhor/ Pìob Mhór bagpipe music and also drum score software - was my favourite with built in awareness of doublings- text entry only,(site gone down Feb2000) Text entry, fast, can be done anywhere

http://www.ceolmor-software.com/ this one built in Inverness, Scotland utterly graphical, has to be moused

http://home.istar.ca/~rmm/ Bagpipe Music Writer another tune writer -  not a very nice synthesised sound. Page layput and printout are more versatile than Piobmhor. Seems a popular format - on many pages. note input is amended ABC - more compplicated than Piob Mhor. http://home.istar.ca/~dougwick/ this is the free version of BMW Gold. - review of all three

http://bakedbean.co.nz/electric_pipes.htm more floating toolbars and mouse click entry

Notation/composition

http://www.codamusic.com/coda/ Coda and Printmusic with the free Notebook download

http://www.pgmusic.com / Band In a Box. Accompaniament software but chord based and no 6/8.  Really unique note entry system and styles format. MIDI input.

http://64.224.241.18/enindex.htm Melody Assistant is a useful shareware program for computer-assisted music writing and composition. Free download but really powerful so I sent them their 20 dollars

http://homerecording.com/bagpipes2.html has the Dave Fiddler article on vinyl bag and cheap chanter construction on the site devoted to digital and analogue recording, CD burning, making Real Audio files from WAV files etc

MIDI-software

Definition:-
Notation software;         Encore, Finale, Rhapsody, Overture, Cubase Score, Sibelius, Score, Mosaic, Nightingale, MusicPrinter Plus, Musicator and FreeStyle.
Sequencing software;    Cakewalk, Performer, Logic, Cubase, MasterTracks Pro and Vision

Music MasterWorks is a MIDI editing and sequencing program for Windows 95/NT from http://www.download.com  or http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10073-101-895975.html

http://www.etcetera.co.uk/ On-line wholesaler with save-disabled downloads.

ABC

http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/ abc is a language designed to notate tunes in an ascii format. It was designed primarily for folk and traditional tunes of Western European origin (such as English, Irish and Scottish) which can be written on one stave in standard classical notation. A lot of info and links here. Not sure which to choose ABC2win seems very DOS inclined - a bit of a struggle. In comparison Barfly for the Mac is ridiculously easy

http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~mrozek/abc/abc2ps.html an up to date ABC printing and development page - to use pdf for printing.

http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.wv

alshaw/abc/ ABC Homepage, downloads, FAQ, archives list

http://www.execpc.com/~jimvint/ ABC2Win text entry in basic form and the shareware programme http://www.c7r.com/abc/

History, Societies, Background, Journals

http://www.piobaireachd.co.uk This society was formed in 1903 and has a lot to answer for. However there is a full index of their 15 Vols

http://www.thepipingcentre.co.uk/ Shop, museum, and a degree in piping all at Cowcaddens,Glasgow,

http://www.bagpiper.com/articles/piping/history/d2_piob.html for the technique, history and advice

http://www.piperanddrummer.com/ in-house mag

http://www.scotsmagazine.com/ The Scot Magazine - some music reviews

http://www.dirtynelson.com/linen/85/index.html The Magazine of Folk and World Music

http://www.ccep.org/ambraighe/noframes/about.html   'Am Bràighe - the history, world view, music, songs, of those who spoke Gaelic in North America'.

http://www.gaelic.net/novascotia/english/indexa.html Gaelic traditions in Nova Scotia

http://www.citeweb.net/pipersmemorial the links page from the Pipers Memorial for all those fallen

http://mag.irish-music.net/ Irish Music Mag with sessions listed by town and county with phone numbers

Tunes on the Web

http://www.tullochgorm.com/abc.html with the intention to build the largest collection of Scottish tunes, including strathspeys, jigs and reels in ABC format on the web

http://www.angelfire.com/hi/fraserpb/Tunes.html The fraser band tune list, gifs and midi

http://www.pgonline.com/georgemusic/index.html shop and tune search

http://geocities.datacellar.net/Area51/Corridor/7562/MUSIC.htm big tune library but no sheet music - plays on Windows mediaplayer

http://geocities.datacellar.net/Athens/Forum/6784/   with the http://www.crosswinds.net/~midipiper/index.html MP3 tunes archive – but where to get the music?

http://www.pgonline.com/georgemusic/Playing-with-Bagpipes.html   will supply chords for certain tunes for 'playalong' - explained mixolydian

http://geocities.datacellar.net/Heartland/Park/9088/scotmidi.html midi and .wav files - some lyrics.

Song, dance and theory

Jack Campin http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/jack.html has some heavy duty stuff on scottish music, scales and modes. Uses Mac software text editor

http://home.earthlink.net/~myrrhis/music.htm - article on Gaelic song, indexed archive of the songs and description of waulking http://home.earthlink.net/~myrrhis/waulkwrk.htm

http://www.scotweb.co.uk/scottishfaq/browse/Gaelic_song___music1.htm faq on songs

http://metalab.unc.edu/gaelic/john/subversion/scottishstepdancing.html for an article on Scottish step dancing - comes from the Subversion in Scottish Music page on http://metalab.unc.edu/gaelic/john/subversion/ssm.html   the editor, with some .wav files is on http://www.jwash.org/pipes.html

http://www.scottishdance.net/  Grand Chain is a set of resources for Scottish Dancers the world over, based in Edinburgh

http://www.tullochgorm.com/ the history and tradition of Scottish celtic music from a site in Cape Breton - mouth music, dancing, and the harp/fiddle/pipe chestnut - a huge links page (not annotated)

http://www.rscds.org/ the Official Web Site for Members of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society

http://www.scottishdance.org/ The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society

Other Band pages

http://users.powernet.co.uk/beck/mkpbstup.htm MK Pipe band from the  http://www.lava.net/~derby/eng.html 'Monties Web' list, also from the RSPB http://www.dill.demon.co.uk/rspba/rspba16.htm list _ new pages as from November99 http://www.mkpb.co.uk

http://ljgpc.physics.uiowa.edu/uish/index.html The University of Iowa Scottish Highlanders  founded in 1936.  to promote, teach, and perform the Scottish arts of piping, drumming, and dancing. Good drumming excercises

http://www.cableregina.com/nonprofits/vppb/   Victoria Pipe band

http://www.angelfire.com/hi/fraserpb/   The Fraser Pipe band

http://www.welcome.to/illemerald Illinois Police Dept Pipe band with MP3 clips

http://www.lib.purdue.edu/~psmith/XLII/pipes.html The Forty Second Royal Highlanders, Lafayette, Indiana

http://www.vickhast.demon.co.uk/mvohome.htm The Massif Village Orchestra is designed to promote participation in the playing and performance of traditonal dance music from Central France -  mainly Hurdy Gurdies, Bagpipes(this goes to the Bagpipe society with a list of UK venues)

http://www.hemlockmusic.demon.co.uk/cockandbull.html Cock and Bull band- Stony Stratford

Language

Lowland Scots

http://members.xoom.com/MkeBurnsClub/works/lindx_a.htm Burns on-line, fully indexed

http://scotstext.org/Poems/R%20L%20Stevenson/Stevenson_index.htm Robert Louis Stevenson Scots verses from the http://scotstext.org/ Texts in Scots site

http://geocities.datacellar.net/sassisch/rhahn/lowlands/links_scots.htm full and updated links on the Lowland Languages

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/Homepages/K27/ an introduction to Scots

http://www.umist.ac.uk/UMIST_CAL/Scots/haunbuik.htm a scots handbuik

http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/cectal/ The National Centre for English Cultural Tradition (NATCECT) is a research institution which is the national repository for material on all aspects of language and cultural tradition in England. It is the only university-based research unit in England devoted to the study of all aspects of tradition throughout the country.

http://www.snda.org.uk/scothist.htm Scottish National Dictionary (lowland Scots) with  The Scuil Wab — This our website for schools and schoolchildren. It presents Scots words and learning about the Scots language in a lively and informative manner.
A more academic approach on   http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~src045/ Scots is the current and indigenous language of lowland Scotland. It is a branch of the Germanic family of languages and its nearest relative is English, both of which ultimately descend from Anglo-Saxon
And also http://geocities.datacellar.net/Athens/1615/rhahn/lowlands/llscots.html Lowlands-L is an automatet warldwide electronic mail leet fur thaim that is interestet in the leids an cultures o the lawlands

http://www.pearl.arts.ed.ac.uk/   The School of Scottish Studies, The University of Edinburgh with Real audio files of songs and history.

Gaelic

http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/smo/c_goirid/ Language, dancing and music courses in the Isle of Sky - Piping is £110

http://www.gaeliccollege.edu Cape Breton

http://www.feisean.org/ A Fèis is an opportunity for people to come together to be taught skills in Gaelic arts - singing, dancing, drama and traditional musical instruments.

Other links pages

http://www.bagpipes2000.com/home.html Tony Maclachlan - our 'local' store, downloadable videos, and CD reviews, a growing website

http://www.greenepa.net/~pages/Tune_search/Link_Page.html good links page

http://hometown.aol.com/piperbret/index5.htm Good  advice for playing at functions and tunelist suggestions

http://members.aol.com/bagpipeweb/index.html Bob Dunsire’s set of links – regularly checked, usefully annotated and pretty comprehensive. A good first stab at anything from here.

http://alpha-bits.ai.mit.edu/people/jpmellor/piping/wishlist.html extensive page of links - not annotated

http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/ Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments

http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/scotland/music.html Scottish music and dance from Edinburgh Uni. Quite a few broken links April2000

http://www.angelfire.com/sc/ringwoodpb/roaming.html some scottish and other piping links

http://www.hugin.demon.co.uk/bagpipe/bagpipe.html The Bagpipe Society - English and continental pipes

http://www.e-m-s.com/front/front.html   The Early Music shop, Bradford and London

http://www.earlymusic.org.uk/ the Early Music Network set to promote the understanding and enjoyment of early music and historically informed performance.

Elizabethan England, and the lives of the growing middle class. Visit their website Guild of St. Ives , http://www.saintives.com  take a look at the trade of Mercer - the Stockbroker of the Elizabethan Era.

http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/ Music resources;

• Individual Musicians (All Genres) and Popular Groups
• Groups and Ensembles (Except Popular)
• Other Sites Related to Performance
• Composers and Composition
• Genres and Types of Music
• Research and Study
• The Commercial World of Music
• Journals and Magazines
• General and Miscellaneous

Celtic stuff

http://www.celticxstitch.ie/learnhow.html Many of our cross stitch designs are based on traditional Celtic art, dating back to around 500 B.C. Celtic designs from this period were often characterised by their free flowing, and sometimes extremely complex, curved and linear patterns

http://www.watson.org/rivendell/historycelt.html The lands occupied by Celtic tribes, whose roots can be traced back for more than 25 centuries, were vast. Celts occupied land in modern day Eastern Europe, Greece, Spain, Northern Italy, Western Europe, England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

http://www.arpnet.it/carolan/english/   aiming to study the musical and cultural heritage of the northern European countries, especially those with ancient Celtic roots : Ireland, Scotland, Brittany and other countries which are linked by common social and historic traditions, for example, England.     No update since 1998

http://og-man.net/ evry celtic thing on  the web - includes pipe championships and link to MP3 site www.mp3.com   http://genres.mp3.com/music/world_folk/world_traditions/european/celtic/

http://stations.mp3s.com/stations/42/angus_ogs_pick_of_the_week.html and his MP3 pick of the week

http://www.ceolas.org/ceolas.html The 'home of celtic music since 1994. Ceolas houses the largest online collection of information on celtic music, and has links to hundreds of related sites

http://www.celticmusic.com/home.shtml Celtic and folk

http://www.musicscotland.com/ CD's shop with many clips, and some music festival links. - the fastest service, and easily ordered by phone or web. Been back many times.

http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/ reference for European Medieval and Renaissance music - loads of info

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~emacpher/pipes.html many links (not annotated) nice links to 'NonGHB Pipes http://www-personal.umich.edu/~emacpher/pipes/nonghb.html and research

http://www.internetradio.co.uk/scottish/ Scottish radio on the net

http://www.feisean.org/index.htm   Fèisean nan Gàidheal - The National Association of Gaelic Arts Youth Tuition festivals

http://www.holiday.scotland.net/ Scottish Tourist board

http://www.cali.co.uk/highexp/ Holidays in Scotland

http://www.balnain.com/ The Home of Highland Music - 10 week courses in INverness

http://goeurope.about.com/travel/goeurope/library/weekly/aa980625.htm from About.com some bagpipe links

http://www.travelscotland.co.uk/events/highland_calendar.htm Highland Games calendar

www.scotz.com gone down Sept2000

http://www.rampantscotland.com everything from sports news, whats on TV, celtic fairy stories, tourism, Government, religion - its all here

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/ as a "virtual reference library" of genealogical information that is of particular relevance to the UK & Ireland

Pitch, Scales and Equal tempament

http://members.aol.com/bpsite/index.html   a collection of practical and theoretical material related to the Bohlen-Pierce scale  including links to Pythagorean division and other unusual scales

http://www.nv.cc.va.us/home/nvfayxj/tuning.htm    contains two files that play a C major scale in Equal Temprament, then Just Intonation, then Pythagorean Intonation.

http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/harmony/pyth.html This FAQ article is intended to explain the system of tuning in perfect fifths commonly known as "Pythagorean intonation," its interaction with the stylistic traits of medieval polyphony, and its relationship to other systems of tuning.

http://www.webster.sk.ca/greenwich/drone.htm Various essays on early harmony, drones and speculation on song generation

Misc endpiece

http://www.vega.bg/~beinsa_douno/s_fiz.htm Bulgarian Mystic Beinsá Dounó. 6 excercises

http://www.prs.net/ classical music archive

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/cds/22/22804_qb0.html She moved through the fair

http://www.ftech.net/~webfeet/festivals/   Folk festivals

http://www.ely.org.uk/folk2.htm The Ely Folk Festival

http://www.custard.the-top.co.uk/list.htm   Soutares ond Clerces Events Page Medieval and Roman traders and their market days

http://www.the-mod.org.uk/  The MOD – in Dunoon this year 13-20^th October.

http://www.aurorascot.org.uk/index.htm The Aurora Ceilidh Band play traditional Scottish music for Ceilidh dances and other events in the Aberdeen area (North-East Scotland). 6 piece line-up Vocals, whistle, flute, mandolin, banjo, guitar, fiddle, percussion, Scottish Smallpipes and Great Highland Bagpipes.

http://www.worldmusic.net/frames.html   The World Music Network is an international information and direct mail network linking all those working in World Music, including record labels, promoters, venues, festivals and media people,   There often seems to be more interest in Western pop music than a country's own domestic music forms. And that's where we come in.
Ordered Rough Guides to Scottish, English and Irish music 5/7/00 - it took them 10 days to post them out - the slowest service on the net

http://www.rootsworld.com/bagpipes/index.shtml Reviews and recordings -

http://www.adgproductions.com/ music educational publishing company producing and selling music instructional products including books, compact disks, MIDI disks, videos and software for most instruments and styles. Link to Piano tutoring on the web.

Piob Master, PiobMohr and Bagpipe Player - a comparison

The PiobMaster sound has a more authentic nasal quality, but could be quite jarring for others in ear shot, PiobMohr is softer and probably carries less well beyond the headphones

The evaluation copy of PiobMaster (http://www.ceolmor-software.com/) allows about 20 'actions' before requiring registration - PiobMohr lasts a lot longer (http://www.trytel.com/~piobmhor/) and Bagpipe player (http://home.istar.ca/~dougwick/) is absolutely free

PiobMaster has a clean interface with separate pop-up palettes for notes, doublings, embellishments, and piobroch. The screen can get crowded but they are sensible divided.   It is predominantly mouse selection and its truly graphic interface works well. However deselecting the previous note length or embellishment requires clicking in any part of the documant and I persistently brought up the tiltle, or tune type box by clicking in the top of the page, the bars are a fixed size and getting all the notes in can be a struggle, however note placement in PiobMaster is very accurate when scaled up, and the exact positioning of ‘dots’ and ‘cuts’ allows for ‘non-mechanical writing’ and an aesthetic layout, but the whole procedure is very time consuming and although straightforward and 'simple' the provision of an automatic layout would help get basic tune forms down quickly. The mouse selection is no faster than the text entry(once learnt), and there is no checking of note lengths, nor any of the ‘intelligence’ of placings and types of doublings so valuable in PiobMohr.

PiobMohr has a separate direct text entry screen, the edit, which works well, the play screen has one control pallette which sits at the bottom of the screen.

Well the update (November 200) is that I've changed over to Bagpipe Player http://home.istar.ca/~dougwick/. Although I'd spent £60 on Piob Mohr, and have built all my tune base on it I think Bagpipe Music Writer is more powerful, more versatile in its printing options, and allows multiple tunes and tempos per page for reviewing possible medley combinations. Of course that versatility comes at a price, it is more difficult to code, and slightly slower to enter from scratch, but it is worth persevering.  There is a file conversion utility which works well so eventually I can convert everything.  With the support of some big names it will have a bigger user base and therefore bigger archive.  And Bagpipe Reader is free, because in the words of the author  "Bagpipe Reader was built for exchanging and sharing of musical ideas. Information was meant to be shared. In this spirit, please pass along this program to others so they might benefit from musical idea sharing."  Thank you Doug Wickstrom.

This started as a linkspage for Bagpipes, sort of 'web notes' as I found out more about the background, sounds and culture of my native country. All categories related to bagpipes as they had the tunes library and 'the sound'. Now I see folk, celtic and dance music creeping in as my interest returns to 'real music' stuff straight from the heart and mind, not sanitised and appropriated by composers, tamed and developed by technology, or civilized and improved by publication or industrialization. Tunes have something fundamental to our language structure, and how our brains have developed to handle language, and there is something fascinating about things so simple that can affect so deeply.

Started looking around for a new musical experience in Feb99
March99 went along to MKPB to learn the chanter
May99 got myself a set of Pipes
Joined the band October 99
Music will never be the same again.

Scott@pipingunlimited.com