Hi all Thanks for your message, Robin. Markus Schwenkreis and I are playing some of those 'folky' pieces in 'posh' English and Scottish sources of the...
Here's a chance to get hold of a set of Scottish smallpipes made by the man who practically invented the instrument. I'm primarily a Northumbrian piper and I...
... In Modern Times (Piping Progressions), Lismor Records. The Polkemmet Grorud Pipe Band has a Breton Dance with pipe band and pipe organ--as far as I can...
... Took a while to source the dance as everyone was busy over Xmas. Fourstones Square - Dance ************************* Square Set for 4 couples. Music 4 x 40...
Dominic, I am wondering what system of half-closed fingering your border pipes use. Do they use a "continental" style half-closed fingering like Jon Swayne's...
The pipes shown on the website use the continental fingering. A Highland fingering border/lowland pipe in A is in development and will be added to the site...
Incidentally - I was looking at the familiar picture of Flemish piping (at, for example, _http://www.richard-york.co.uk/past/rbigpics/brueglpiper.jpg_ ...
Thanks Looks fun Much obliged. Noel ... From: bellowspipes@yahoogroups.com [mailto:bellowspipes@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of dunmail_hodkinson Sent: 09...
Dear all, Original Bulgarian Gaida for sale - full working condition - in D (three finger note). Also gaida chanter in 6-finger note D. I will never do...
Just a short intro from me - Ive been fiddling with the pipes for about 10 years but since about 2002 have hardly played at all. Since then Ive got married and...
... I've often wondered about Bill Hart pipes. I'll be back in Scotland in a few weeks and it'd be nice (at some point) to have a set made from Aussie wood ......
Re: playing "Wild Hills" on a Scottish chanter. You should be able to play it on your border chanter easily with the normal cross fingering for Cnat. In order...
This is half baked but I thought I'd throw it to the mob and see what happened. A "half length" is a portrait that shows the upper half of a person, i.e. down...
I remember reading somewhere of a large (traditional? now rare?) breed of carrot called "Half Long". Largish carrots in a bunch / largish drones in common...
What are the other explanations, if you will excuse the question? yours ay Ian Harrison Harriet-Straub-Straße 39 79100 Freiburg Germany Tel & Fax +49 761...
Half as long as something else. Named after a variety of carrot, why not Amsterdam forcing, Early Nantes, Berlicum or Rothchild? A corruption of "huffalungs",...
On behalf of a local chap Bellows blown SSP, 3-drones Dda Split-stock Not sure of maker possibly Colin Ross Comes with additional A-Chanter by Richard Evans...
Hi all, Apologies if slight off-topic. John Offord's book "John of the Green - The Cheshire Way" has now been reprinted. Copies of this plus the Greenwich...
Phil Williams here, One of my pupils is in the market for a 3-drone bellows smallpipes in D. NSP or SSP One option is to find a set with 3-drones/Bag/bellows...
... Here's Ian Harrison 1) why is Matt of all people being bounced? 2) Border Pipes is a nice short name but I have my own problems with it. We all know that...
What people refer to them as... I have heard people from what is now Scotland call them "Lowland pipes" and people from Newcastle or the flat plain north of...
... Unless one considers the area north of the border and south of Edinburgh which is called..."the Borders". So if a piper comes from Peebles s/he would be a...
I recently bought a set of SSPs though I have played the GHB for over 30 years. I am working on my bellows technique and feel I need the watchfulness of a...
Ken, Thanks for the email. Your introduction is very similar to mine. I have played GHP and won major awards in solo piping at the professional level. I ...
I have a number of pipe sets for hire, if anyone is interested. Mainly SSP but also a Border set and maybe a bellows-blown cornemuse soon. Details on the ...
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