I've returned to the one long page of links because, although it can take a a while to load (there are no pictures at all), it is immediately searchable. So it doesn'y matter how I've categorised something, only that I've got sufficient keywords in there somewhere. Well it suits me.

Pipes

Use a search engine, the GHB is everywhere - loads of places and people to choose from - only a couple here. Yes I know it's strange that the very thing that gave rise to this whole site is the thing that is least represented here - but a bundle of sticks and a bag are only the tip of the iceberg.

GHB

http://www.scotch-corner.co.uk/
promohtml/celticcorner/bagpipes/bagpipes.htm for some variety

http://www.bagpipes.freeuk.com/about.html Oak pipes made in scotland – special ‘o’ ring joints

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 apparently 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, Border and smallpipes

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

http://www.geocities.com/Paris/5701/ smallpipes/pipe1.htm Northumbrian pipes - how to make them by Mike Nelson

http://www.ray-sloan.com/standard.html small pipes by Ray Sloan

http://gofree.indigo.ie/~jrutzen/index.htm John Rutzen, Co Donegal Ireland - impressive pipes

http://www.goodacrepipes.mcmail.com Julian Goodacre makes all sorts Border, Small, Cornish, English, and replica pipes he made Barnaby’s replica 18th Cent Great pipes - good site, popular maker

http://www.bagpipeworld.co.uk/index.html Christopher Bailey makes many sorts, site has good descriptions and pictures

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.netreal.co.uk/lbps/ Lowland and Border pipers society

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.northumberland.gov.uk/VG/music.html Music in Northumberland - from the tourism site

http://www.scottishproducts.com/BagpipesGalore.htm practise pipes - real fun for £99 - and there is now a bellows blown model in A as well but a bit more expensive. Bagpipes Galore are at 82 High St, Edinburgh. 0131 556 4073/1220

Tips on playing

http://www.pibroch.net Barnaby Brown multimedia teaching. This is going to be big.

http://www.mhs.mendocino.k12.ca.us/MenComNet/
Business/Retail/Larknet/articles Various articles on ethnic and traditional music and techniques.

http://www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/
~bdaye/bagpipes.html#A1.5.2 David Daye's Bagpipe page -concert pitch tuning, reed manipulation, unorthodox fingering and other pipes. or at http://www.daye1.com/ with the PipeMajors Nightmare http://www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/~bdaye/pipemare.gif
Good practise advice on http://www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/~bdaye/

teachslf.html

http://pipes.tico.com/nonsense/ some tricks and unconventional approaches, good links - also John Walsh on http://metalab.unc.edu/gaelic/john/ with how to wrap a great kilt

http://www.piobaireachd.com/
IntroductiontoPiobaireachd.htm seems to be mostly a selling page for his tutor although there are some handwritten music pibroch pages

http://www.cerebellion.com/audio/ Hector Roy MacLean's Lament played by Jimmy McIntosh on practice chanter as taught by Bob Brown Linked from The Voice on http://www.euspba.org/

http://www.standingstones.com/tminst.html good information on the instruments and playing styles of traditional Scottish and Irish music. And check out the links at the bottom of the page

http://sessioneer.com/default.asp How to play the tin whistle, strikes, cuts, rolls and crans, Some jigs and reels to practise on, A good site with a good tune archive, gif, abc and midi.

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

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.wygent.com/ Synth-Drone reeds and loads of tuning tips

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://www.geocities.com/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

Pitch, scale and equal temprament

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://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

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

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

http://leo.worldonline.es/
hiruduna/partitu/english/hasiera.htm Scores interchange

http://www.freesheetmusic.net/ never found anything I wanted here but might be worth a try

Section contents| GHB | Pb,SSp,Np | Tips | Reeds | Pitch | Tunes | Socs | Mags | History |

Societies

http://www.piobaireachd.co.uk This society was formed in 1903 and has a lot to answer for with regard to the classical music of Scotland, and their relationship to piping as a performing art. However there is a full index of their 15 Vols of Piobaireachd.

http://www.hugin.demon.co.uk/bagpipe/bagpipe.html The (English) Bagpipe Society - English and continental pipes - mostly english and french tunes too. Bagpipe BlowOut each June in Milton Keynes

http://www.netreal.co.uk/lbps/ Lowland and Border pipers society - with particular regard to border and lowland tunes - not just an 'easy option' to GHB with its Highland and ex-army repertoire

Northumbrian Pipers Society Northumbrian Pipers Homepage and catalogue

http://www.netreal.co.uk/lbps/ Lowland and Border pipers society

http://www.thepipingcentre.co.uk/ Shop, museum, and a degree in piping all at Cowcaddens,Glasgow. Museum is small - this is the national instrument of Scotland and it has nothing in Edinburgh, and this is the best shot.

http://college-of-piping.co.uk Glasgow College of piping sells many things on-line

http://www.pipersgathering.org/index/index.htm North Hero Vermont - good background information on the 'alternative pipes', but mainly for their annual 'do' Hamish More and others are regulars and teach over there

History

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 Perhaps this appplies to Border Music and Lowland Scots as well.

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

Magazines

Instruments other than Pipes

Homemade

http://www-personal.umich.edu/
~emacpher/pipes/technical.html more technical links and 'home projects'

http://edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu/~dhavlena/ for many home made instruments and whistles

http://www.bagpipeworld.co.uk/index.html Christopher Bailey musical instrument maker with tips and plans.

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

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 - someday

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://web.qx.net/clark/intro.htm The Spec and description of the Ross chanter

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

And there are a lot of other musics than Robert Ap Huw...and other instruments - like the pipes for instance

Plus my notebook of addresses and journeys on the web.

My Most Used links

http://www.clarsach.net | http://www.ardival.com |http://www.musicscotland.com |

My Harp Background

11th April 2001 The harp festival at Merchiston school was on its last morning when I made this visit. I didn't know what to expect but was interested in the fact that Pibroch.net and clarsach.net both claimed that pipe musiccame from a harp pedigree. I was interested in how but didn't really expect to find out.
The enthusiasm of Bill Taylor was captivating, and his range of small harps from Ardival Harps was fascinating. He was playing a Bray harp with a distinct and loud buzzing. I thought it was horrible, distorting the sweetness and melodiousness that I associated with any harp. We started talking and he demonstrated as he spoke with his harps. It was a fascinating glimpse into another world, and another - well several other- ages. I picked up some leaflets as we left and one was a harp course...

It took place in Strathpeffer just outside Inverness the Capital of the Highlands and as a beginners introduction to nylon, gut and wire strung, with and without bray pins, and how they were played through he ages it was excellent.

Two main themes were returned to many times, and are good touchstones for many things;

Art concealed and art revealed

INstrument, technique, repertoire

The irony is that now I am fascinated by the bray, and entranced by Robert Ap Huw, and wanted to order a bray harp. However I'll wait till Biphs got her wire strung and I've had a play on it.

June B has her Harp now. It's a lovely wee winsome thing, but can certainly make a noise. I'm not going to bother trying to see the strings - I'll just test the theory that no-one can make a nasty noise on the harp and try and get my fingers used to the patterns.

http://hometown.aol.com/cdadbayer/HistHarp.html

Joy Music, Sad Music and Sleep Music. During ancient times, these "three musics" were known from the middle east through western Europe. This musical system corresponded to widely held cosmogenic ideas. The three musics are refered to in English and Arabic writings.

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~jaxbens/index.html/

some nice pictures – difficult to read

http://www.lowri.com/aphuw/

Abstracts of the 1995 symposium on RAH

http://www.standingstones.com/aphuw.html

informative page, part of traditional music series

http://www.simon-s.net/harp/

Simons Harp page - excellent, informative, and up to date

http://www.clarsach.net/

Bills pages. Deep resources, keep looking.

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ap_huw/facsimile/

Greg Lindahl on RAH

http://www.booksforscholars.com/XWMainFrame.htm

Books on celtic

http://www.now.com/feature.now?fid=1574120

Harp festival at Nobber, Co Meath, Ireland Oct5th-7th 2001

http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/avenue/xdm52/

United Kingdom Harp association

http://services.worldnet.net/~pybertra/ceol/tunes.htm

ancient and anonymous airs of Ireland - mostly Midi, complete with some history and good links Good site

Harp links 14th June, 2001

http://www.harpfestival.co.uk/index.html 6th-11th April 2001 Merchiston Ccastle School, Colinton

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

http://www.rootsworld.com/celtic/wales.html Welsh celtic harp article from RootsWorld

Section contents | Homemade | Electronic | Harps | Other Instruments |

Other Instruments

http://www.fastlane.net/~rbeckham/ Rudimental drumming - this will separate 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

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

http://member.aol.com/GerRaith/corna.htm Cornameuse builder - with plans and sizes

World Pipes

The Rest of the World

http://www.hotpipes.com/ 30 kinds of bagpipe from all over the world pictures and descriptions of all 30 plus sound files of 8 or 9 - Bought the CD July2000.

http://www.innetix.com/~keiths/bagpipes.html for the pics of european pipes and their relative keys

http://members.aol.com/wgority/faves.html W Gority – Bill’s links page to his many friends, and details of his many pipes

http://www.windworld.com/gallery/macharg/ The wee Piper Michael MacHarg with a range of pipes from different countries

Britanny

http://www.gwenhadu.com/beuzeg/pages/sommaire.htm Group de Bruyeres - in French only

http://www.moulin-vert.org/en/default.htm flute bombarde and drums - The pipes and drums

http://www.bmol.infini.fr/adherent/bleiziruz/index.fr.htm Bleizi Ruz home page (in French) INtroductory article in English http://www.folkworld.de/9/e/bleizi.html

English

http://www.hugin.demon.co.uk/bagpipe/bagpipe.html The Bagpipe society, events and links (includes regular pub meetings)

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.

http://www.goodacrepipes.mcmail.com Julian Goodacre makes all sorts Border, Small, Cornish, English, and replica pipes

http://www.hgt.gwynedd.gov.uk/UilleannPipes/Default.htm Uillean pipe maker in Wales - with plans for small pipes (£35) as well

http://www.freeweb.org/musica/isup/index.htm Uilleann tunes pages

http://www.iol.ie/~npupipes/ Uillean pipers page with screwed up Java - no info Nov2000

http://www2.southwind.net/~karres/_music/_pipe/Uilleann.html Uillean pipe information listings

http://www.bcpipes.com/ Pipe maker and performer. Good set of pages with info and up to date prices

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

Malta

How to make a Maltese bagpipe http://www.maltese-ghana.ndirect.co.uk/folklore/etnika02.html

Polish

http:www.polbox.com/s/snori/polskie.html Polish pipes Pan european text display support download required (only 1.8Mb but a slow link and I never got it to work)

Sardinia

http://sardinia.net/sonus/index.htm The Launeddas - history, pictures and sound files (Real player) also pictures of construction - the Picts have their version of triple pipes represented in Rosslyn Chapel http://www.rosslynchapel.org.uk/index.html

http://www.crs4.it/Sardinia.html Sardinia on the web

Spanish

http://clip.dia.fi.upm.es/~boris/gaita/index.html Spanish bagpipes- the Gaita, and hurdy gurdy links.

http://members.es.tripod.de/bandagaitescorvera/mipagpre.html the Corvera Pipe Band of Asturia Good Pages, good links and music download. The Home page is only in Spanish but gives links to all the Gaita sites - http://members.es.tripod.de/Aqueron/

http://www.asturies.com/viesca/gaita/pagesg.htm Only in Spanish but a central resource for this area

http://www.terra.es/personal2/sanabresa/Principal2.htm La Gaita Sanabresa - all spanish page but some nice pictures. English history of Gaita maker on http://www.geocities.com/alberto_velasco/ppalin.html

http://www.libreopinion.com/foto_gaita/index2.html Go to the 'melodius' link to hear some fantatstic flamenco bagpipes (for instance;http://www.libreopinion.com/foto_gaita/musica.html - what is the time signature?) A lot of broken links but worth revisiting.

http://www.xuacuamieva.com/ Site of Master Piper of Asturia, Xuacu Amieva. Extensive Links (Enlaces) and Audio in MP3

http://www.felpeyu.com/ One of the top touring bands - appeared at Celtic Connections Glasgow Jan01 Broken links

http://www.bilbao.com/gaiters1angle.html Catalonia page with tunes on Pep and Aragonese tunes on Rafa

Swedish

http://www.docs.uu.se/~crwth/bagpipes/swedish/ Swedish bagpipes - downloadable music

Welsh

http://www.tyrbwlch.freeserve.co.uk/index.htm Welsh bagpipes – links to the Pencadder Festival

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/162/bagpipes.html The sound of Eryri pipes from the 'Land of the Eagles' Wales and the Goat industries on http://www.goatindustries.fsnet.co.uk/ He uses a pick up on the reed and feeds it into a synth

World Music

Other Folk Music

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.

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, it took them 10 days to post them out - the slowest service on the net - 5/7/00. I've been back several times, now bought about 12 cd's. The latest Scandinavia, Gypsies and Klezmer cds came a lot quicker - in fact within the week. 12/12/01

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

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/martin.nail/Folkmus.htm links to English Folk music

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

General Music

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

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

Folk festivals

http://www.the-mod.org.uk/ The MOD – in Dunoon 2000 - 13-20^th October.

http://www.celtic-world.com/eng/default.asp Celtic folk festivals

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

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

Early/ Medieval

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

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

http://members.iinet.net.au/~nickl/crumhorn.html Crumhorn enthusiast - good links page

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

Magazines

http://www.folkworld.de/frog/ Folk and Roots On-line Guide for the whole of Europe -

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

http://www.folkworld.de/9/e/index.html Online Folk music magazine

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~swinick/winickpubs.html Steve Winick's publications page, breton music, Italian, Basque, cajun and celtic, with CD reviews and links to folk and celtic pages

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

CD's and music suppliers

http://www.worldmusic.net/frames.html The World Music Network is an international information and direct mail network.
Ordered Rough Guide CD's 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 - a searchable site

http://www.celtimusic.com/catalogue/ French site - cheaper than amazon by a third for Brittany stuff http://www.celtimusic.com/
catalogue/index.cfm?fuseaction=AfficheStyle&style_id=5 Barron and Christian Anniex

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.folkweb.com/ reviewed american site with samples

Section Contents | Other Folk Music | General Music | Folk Festivals | Early/Medieval | Magazines | CD's | Misc |

Misc

Pipers Memorial

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

People and Bands

| Performers | Personalities | Bands | Makers |

Performers

Matt Seattle. http://www.disciplineglobalmobile.com/diary/diary.htm the diaries page of an innovative and well organised site. Matt seattle http://
www.disciplineglobalmobile.com/bio/seattle.shtml diary the real man- and his day -all the diaries are fascinating. His home page http://www.angelfire.com/me2/JSARTS/MATT.html Article about Dixon http://www.folkmusic.net/htmfiles/inart510.htm and the difference between HIghland and Border perspectives. http://www.btinternet.com/
~radical/thefolkmag/dragonfly.htm The plain site with list of books.

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

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

| Performers | Personalities | Bands | Makers |

Personalities

http://members.tripod.co.uk/BagpipesBrooks/ Was taken to court for playing his pipes on Hampstead Heath, maintaining that as they had been declared an instrument of war in1746, they could not be also be a musical instrument. Campaigning as the Green Man

http://members.aol.com/wgority/faves.html W Gority – Bill’s links page to his many friends, and details of his many pipes

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

http://www.simplyscottish.com/ a passionate scot in America with a full site

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Bands

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/
sc/ringwoodpb/roaming.html some good scottish and other piping links from the Ringwood 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

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Makers

My own highly recommended maker, Nigel Richard in Edinburgh, has no WWW site but his telephone number is Garvie Pipes 0131 467 7535

http://www.hamishmoore.musicscotland.com/
essay.htm#intro Comparison of Highland, Border, Reel and Small pipes by Hamish Moore, one of the top 5 makers of repute. Quite expensive examples here but apparently he has a staff of 7 now - so the waiting list shouldn't be too long.

http://www.windworld.com/gallery/macharg/ The wee Piper Michael MacHarg with a range of pipes from different countries (none of his links work March2001)

http://www.geocities.com/
Paris/5701/smallpipes/pipe1.htm Northumbrian pipes - how to make them by Mike Nelson

http://www.ray-sloan.com/standard.html small pipes by Ray Sloan

http://gofree.indigo.ie/~jrutzen/index.htm John Rutzen, Co Donegal Ireland - impressive pipes

http://www.goodacrepipes.mcmail.com Julian Goodacre makes all sorts Border, Small, Cornish, English, and replica pipes - he made Barnaby’s replica 18th Cent Great pipes - good site, popular maker

http://www.bagpipeworld.co.uk/index.html Christopher Bailey makes many sorts, site has good descriptions and pictures

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

Culture of Scotland

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History

http://www.highlanderweb.co.uk/wallace/ Wallace, Bruce, Culloden, the stuff of history

http://www.electricscotland.com/history/culloden/index.html Battle of Culloden contained in a very full and informative site. Also includes Burns, Wallace, Bruce, Travel, music,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/
scotland/education/webguide/history.shtml BBC Education Site link to Scottish History

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

http://scotstext.org/ Texts in Scots site

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

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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://www.geocities.com/
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://www.geocities.com/
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

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Song

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

Dance

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

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.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

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Magazines

Magazines - pipes

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

Magazines - Scotland

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

Mags, orgs - America/Canada

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

Supplies

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

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://college-of-piping.co.uk Glasgow College of piping sells many things on-line

http://www.songsea.com/pipes.htm All 3 electronic chanters, bagpipes all sorts, whistles and everything musical for folkmusic

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

http://www.larkinam.com/
MenComNet/Business/Retail/Larknet/Bagpipes Lark In the Morning Retailing a large collection of pipes - pictures and prices of many ethnic instruments.

http://www.folkworld.de/17/e/museum.html introduction to Northumberland music and musical museums.

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

Internet radio

http://www.bbc.co.uk/
scotland/radioscotland/progs/pipeline.shtml Pipeline from Radio Scotland presented by Ian MacInnes

http://www.internetradio.co.uk/scottish/ Scottish Internet Radio.

Tourism

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

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

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

Courses

http://www.ardival.co.uk Harp Holidays - from the enthusiasm of Bill Taylor at the harp Festival

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

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

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.

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

Celtic stuff

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Celtic shops

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

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

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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

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Pipe software

http://www.trytel.com/~piobmhor/ 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://members.aol.com/pipwriter/ Pipewriter with Midi output and text entry. £27

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

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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

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.

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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 Englis

h, 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.walshaw/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/

http://www.monumental.com/rshorne/gram.html Audio Spectrum Analysis software - free download

Review

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.

Printing is neat in PiobMaster and the 4 bar per line layout that was a problem on the screen, requiring scaling up and careful placement is now neatly displayed on the page. It feels more like engraving than writing although playback is immediate - in PiobMohr you have to return save and exit from edit mode - 2 keystrokes!

In the end clicking on icons and placing by eye is not what I want, and although I was not initially impressed with what I thought was a somewhat obscure text entry method, and an old fashioned layout in PiobMohr I have found it dependable, fast, and the programme is more intelligent and the whole thing less laborious.

Both import from .bmw files Piob Mohr using a clunky separate plug-in reader but I've never needed to use it as writing the stuff is so quick.

Well the update (November 2000) 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.

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links

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

http://www.innetix.com/~keiths/links.html Good links and resources to other countries - annotated

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