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"The Journey of Askavlos" - an ethnomusicological docuemntary
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A Bulgarian Fascination
A Dancer's Perspective - Swedish dance
A gaiteiro in California
A Galician Gaiteiro in London
A Hungarian Fascination
A Meeting with Rudi Lughofer
A new resource for curious minds
A Serendipitous Stay
A Short Overview of the Bagpipes from the Iberian Peninsula
A slow boat to Sweden: creating my säckpipa over a mere twenty-seven years...
A Tradition of Breaches: On the Renaissance of Bagpipes and Bagpipe Making in Austria
A Weekend in Plovdiv
A weekend with Callum and Matthias
A wild bagpipe festival
Adrian Grant, our friend
AGM 2011
All Fingers and Thumbs
All set for Glasgow!?
An Amazing Discovery
An Online Odyssey
Andrew Heywood - Obituary
Auvergne 3/8 bourree
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Bagpipe Icongraphy from Italy
Bagpipe Tutor - David Faulkner
Bagpipers in the Dock*
Bagpipers of the World!
Bagpipes at Medieval Music in the Dales 2017
Bagpipes for the Norwegian Folk Tradition
Bagpipes in Austria - A Story of Diversity
Bagpipes in Lithuania: From historical facts to modern interpretations
Bagpipes in the West Highland Museum
Bagpipes of Troyes
Band Profile: The Barbarian Pipe Band
Beer and Bagpipes
Besom in Bloom - Gracing and variation
Blowout ‑ 5th ‑ 7th June, 2020
Blowout 2010 – a hurdy-gurdy player's view
Blowout 2010 Preview
Blowout 2011
Blowout 2011 – a hurdy-gurdy player's perspective
Blowout 2011 Preview
Blowout 2015
Blowout 2015 review
Blowout 2016
Blowout 2016
Blowout 2017
Blowout 2018 - 1st to 3rd June
Blowout 2019 31st May to 2nd June
Blowout 2024
Blowout Online Concert
Blowout Report 2017
Blowout Report 2018
Brittany
Buy Broom Besoms
Baroque Musette
Boha
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Cabrette Tuning Yet Again...
Call for Papers - International Bagpipe Conference
Calling all Cornish Pipers
Calls and Responses
Calls and Responses
CD Retailers
CD Review
CD Review - Bla Bergens Borduner
CD Review - Francesc Sans i Bonet - L’Inifinit
CD Review: Cornemuses by Jean-Claude & Bernard Blanc
CD Review: Piccola Banda di Cornamuse
CD Review: Remoteness of Light - The Stargazer's Assistant
CD Review: Rowly-Powly by Jeremy Kingsbury
CD Review: Serenin by Cabit
CD Reviews - Piva and WÖR
Chanter Spring 2019
Colin Ross Remembered
Cor Elow
Cornemuse du Centre
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Dimitrios Koukas
Dronehenge!
Droning On
Droning On
Droning On
Droning On: Oxford
Duo Macke-Bornauw: Curly Music
Double and Triple Pipes
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Early 17th Century Bagpipes in Praetorius’s Syntagma Musicum II
Emin Yağci: Tulum A Sound from the Black Sea Turkish musical Traditions by Emin Yagei
End Drone
End Drone
End Drone
End Drone: How I got hooked on pipes
Eth Bot d'Aran
Expedition in the North - Part 2
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Fête de la Muchosá
Forthcoming Event - Medieval Music in the Dales 2017 – Bolton Castle, Wensleydale
Forthcoming Events
Forum for Bagpipe Enthusiasts and Makers
Fourth International Bagpipe Conference
Fox and Geese
From the Chair
Further Adventures of the Wandering Piper
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G.L.O.P. -- the Great Linseed Oil Project of 2015 (Or Pouring Oil on Troubled Turners)
gaita and gajda - Musings on a Strange History of Names
Gaitas-de-fole in Portugal and their connection to Galicia
Gaspard de Gueidan by Hyacinthe Rigaud
Giovanni Lorenzo Baldano's sordellina manuscript of 1600: a new approach to reconstruction
Grace Notes Winter 2015
Grace Notes
Grace Notes Winter 2023
Grace Notes Autumn 2023
Grace Notes Summer 2023
Grace Notes Winter 2022
Grace Notes Autumn 2022
Grace Notes Summer 2022
Grace Notes Winter 2021
Grace Notes Autumn 2021
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Grace Notes Summer 2020
Grace Notes Winter 2019
Grace Notes Spring 2019
Grace Notes Spring 2018
Grace Notes Autumn 2018
Grace Notes Autumn 2016
Grace Notes Summer 2016
Grace Notes Spring 2016
Grace Notes Spring 2015
Grace Notes Summer 2015
Gaita
Gwawr by Estron review
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Hale the Piper (cont...) and other Peak Pipers
Happy Man – arr for cornish pipes
Highland Pipemaking in India
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I found a little nut tree lurking in the bag
Identifying “The Duke of Northumberland's Piper”
In Conversation with François Lazarevitch
In Praise of Old Pipes
In the bag
In the Bag
In the Bag
In the Bag
In the Bag
In the Bag
In the Bag
In the Bag
In the bag - Anders Norudde
In the Bag - Carlo Massarelli
In the Bag - Catlin Magi
In the Bag - Ceri Rhys Matthews
In the Bag - Eric Montbel
In the Bag - Fabio Resta
In the Bag - Jon Swayne
In the Bag - Kathryn Tickell
In the bag - Matt Seattle
In the Bag - Paul Martin
In the Bag - Paulo Tato Marinho
In the Bag - Pete Stacey
In the Bag - Yannis Pantazis
In the Bag - Zofia Kolbe-Wojdyr
In the Bag: Anne Marie Summers
In the bag: Katariin Raska
In the Bag: Liana Sharifian
In the Bag: Merv Davey
In the bag: Olle Gälmo
In the Bag: Roly Scales
Inspired? Where to go Now?
Instrument Maker or Musician? In conversation with Olle Geris
International Bagpipe Conference 2022
International Bagpipe Day 2015
International Bagpipe Day and Conference
Invasion of the Zampognari
It's not all hot air
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Latvian Bagpipes: Dūdas (Somas Stabules)
Letters
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Letters
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Lick the Ladle, Sandy
Lincolnshire, Lancashire and Scotch Bagpipes: Regional and Pastoral bagpipes in 17th Century England
Live your Dream - The Redpipes
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Medieval Bagpipes
Macedonian Gajda – history, style and techniques
Making a Bagpipe
More reflections on Colin Ross
Music Resources
My Gaita Journey - as a maker and player
My Swedish Bagpipes
Mysterious Symbolism of Askos
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Northumbrian Smallpipes
Notes from a Pandemic Instrument Lab
Nova Scotia Bagpipe Makers
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Old Black Joe – arr for cornish pipes
Other Bagpipe Links
Over The Hills and Far Away
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Performers and Workshop Leaders
Piccola Banda di Cornamuse
Pipenbock!
Pipers return to the minstrel's court, Chester
Pipes and Pipers: Galician Symbols of Ever Evolving Meaning
Piping against a Pipeline
Piping Down, The changing status of the bagpiper from 12th to the 17th centuries
Piping in Palma: The Fourth International Bagpipe Conference – a delegate's view
Piping on a Monadnock
Piping Report of the 3rd International Bagpipe Conference
Piping Reports in the Irish Press
Pôsuträffen - The Annual Swedish Bagpipe Meeting
Print your bagpipe
Putting Bagpipes on the Map
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Raeren Bagpipe Bottle & Jugs
Ramsgate Buzz Preview
Reconstructing the Strozzi Bagpipe
Reducing the range of a melody to fit on bagpipes
Remembering Anton Varela
Remembering Paul Saunders
Review - Bla Bergens Borduner CD
Review BmB - Ge vindt wel een taal Wouter en de Draak - Donnevachter
Review of the Musette Conference
Review: Bagpipes: A National Collection of a National Instrument by Hugh Cheape
Review: Big Music for Northumbrian Smallpipes by Dick Hensold
Review: Bonny Cumberland, John Offord
Review: Book of Irish Music for the D pipes by Dave Rowlands
Review: Cabit - Unico Filio
Review: Carnet de bal en Gascogne
Review: CONTRAS, Cornemuse Landaise
Review: Double Yolks, Duo Gällmo Branschke
Review: Footed upon the Sod - Steve Saxton
Review: Full Boar by Saor Patrol
Review: Geordie Syme’s Paircel of Tunes
Review: Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening - Cloud Horizons
Review: Lisa Wolf - Je suis née en Allemagne
Review: On Ruberslaw
Review: Quest for the Maltese Żaqq
Review: Ro:Toro – live performance
Review: Se Vrativme: Macedonian Dances, by Orkestar Grupa “Pecalbari”
Review: Sudden Need by Solid Ghost
Review: The Pibgorn Tunebook by Keith Lewis
Review: The Register – a Second selection of music for bagpipes by Dave Rowlands
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Southern English Border Pipes
Settala’s Sordellina: Steps in Reconstruction
Sofly Robin
Some of Me Pipes, some of Me Woods, Some of Me Tunes
Some thoughts on cabrette tuning
Sordelline, Cornamuse e Musettes Conference
Spotlight on ... Eric Montbel in conversation with Andrea Kirkby
Spotlight on ... Gesine Bänfer and Ian Harrison
Spotlight On .... Lisa Wolf
St Helena march
Starting Drone
Starting Drone
Stiltwalking Bagpipers
Stop Press: New Bagpipes are a Bosched Job – instruments in the paintings by Bosch
Strakonice, where the Pipes Play
Strange case of Bergamo and its Bagpipe
Summer 2019 Articles
Summer is icumen in
Swedish Bagpipes - A Performer's Perspective
Swedish Bagpipes: Next steps
Symposion - a new beginning
Symposion over one year on
Synthetic Chanter Reeds for Swedish Bagpipes
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That Irish Piping Pig Stamp
The 'Bubble' Concept of Knowledge
The 'Gaita Transmontana' a new-old bagpipe
The (17th century) Iain Dall Chanter links the past to the future
The 6th IBO Conference
The Amazing Airbags
The Amazing Airbags (plus more!)
The bagpipe as an instrument of protest: early references and recent trends
The Belarusian or Lithuanian Duda
The Blowout 3, 3-5 June 2022
The Blowout, 3-5 June 2023
The Burton Agnes Bagpiper
The Edinburgh Müsa
The Eskin Bagpipe Apps
The Estonian Bagpipe - Torupill
The First Ramsgate Buzz
The Gaida in Greece
The Galician Gaita in Havana
The Galician Gaita in Havana (Part II)
The Kaba Gaida
The last 30 years
The Lily
The making of Wessmanlandsbitar
The Maltese Żaqq
The Man with the Golden Thumb
The Müsa: Original Instruments and a Hypothesis on Scales and Tunings
The Musette à ravalment, restoration and reconstruction
The Musette de Cour from the Calvet Museum in Avignon
The Music of Migration
The Muzelsak - Muchosá Part 1
The Muzelzak - Muchosa - Part 2
The Parting Glass
The Pastoral Pipes
The Piper of Mykonos - Dimitrios Koukas
The Piper’s Gathering – One Event, Two Perspectives
The Pipers' Gathering
The planning and setting up of my new workshop
The Revival of the Russian Bagpipe
The Rosca
The Rosca: Part Two
The Rugged Sailor
The Sourdeline of Manfredo Settala Part 2
The Sourdeline of Manfredo Settala, a Milanese inventor in 1640. Part 1
The Story Behind the Carnet de Notes
The Subgalaic Gaitas
The Tailor Piper
The Voice of the Wind
The Young May Moon
The Zhelbuaz: is this Kazakh bagpipe real?
This is the Way
This is the Way Part II
Tools of the Trade
Tools of the Trade
Tools of the Trade
Tools of the Trade
Tools of the Trade: Looming Pins and Cordwangler
Trad Akademie
Traditional Croatian Bagpipes
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Welsh 'Pibgorn’ Pipes
Welcome to the Fancy Peas, Again
What is a Smallpipe?
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Zampogna - Full Circle part 2 - Completing the Circle
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