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"The Journey of Askavlos" - an ethnomusicological docuemntary
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A Bulgarian Fascination
A Coade Stone Piper
A Hungarian Fascination
A new interpretation of the fully keyed sordellinas of Settala’s collection
A Pig of Dumfries
A Piper’s Appointment with FatE
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 with Callum and Matthias
A wild bagpipe festival
Alfranio’s Phagotus
All Fingers and Thumbs
All set for Glasgow!?
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Bagpipe images in British churches
Bagpipers at the Tudor Court
Bagpipers in the Dock*
Bagpipers of the World!
Bagpipes and all things Medieval
Bagpipes at the Bate
Bagpipes for the Norwegian Folk Tradition
Bagpipes in Austria - A Story of Diversity
Bagpipes in Lithuania: From historical facts to modern interpretations
Blowout 2010
Blowout 2015
Blowout 2015 review
Blowout 2016
Blowout 2016
Blowout 2017
Blowout Report 2018
Book Review: Dances from Arbeau’s Orchesographie Arranged by Lizzie Gutteridge
Book Reviews
Breton biniou pipers – historic
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Call for Papers - International Bagpipe Conference
Calls and Responses
CD Review
CD Review: Rowly-Powly by Jeremy Kingsbury
CD Review: Wessmanlandsbitar
Chanter Spring 2019
church carvings of Double Bagpipes
Colin Ross Remembered
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Dave VanDoorne Remembered
Decoration or Function?
Do Hills Get Steeper as One Gets Older?
Double and Triple Pipes
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Early 17th Century Bagpipes in Praetorius’s Syntagma Musicum II
Early Bagpipes in a Wind Band
End Drone
End Drone: How I got hooked on pipes
English Bagpipe Music of the 17th Century
Electronic and Digital Bagpipes
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Final Drone
For Sale
Forthcoming Events
Forum for Bagpipe Enthusiasts and Makers
From the Chairman
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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
Grace Notes Winter 2020
Grace Notes
Grace Notes Winter 2023
Grace Notes Spring 2023
Grace Notes Winter 2022
Grace Notes Winter 2021
Grace Notes Summer 2020
Grace Notes Spring 2019
Grace Notes Winter 2018
Grace Notes Summer 2018
Grace Notes Winter 2017
Grace Notes Autumn 2017
Grace Notes Winter 2016
Grace Notes Summer 2016
Grace Notes Autumn 2015
Grace Notes Spring 2015
Grace Notes Summer 2015
Griff Tunebook
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Hale the Piper (cont...) and other Peak Pipers
Highland Pipemaking in India
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Identifying “The Duke of Northumberland's Piper”
In Conversation with François Lazarevitch
In Praise of Old Pipes
In Search of the Missing Diple
In the bag
In the Bag
In the Bag
In the Bag
In the Bag
In the Bag
In the Bag - Jon Swayne
In the Bag - Paul Martin
In the Bag - Pete Stacey
In the Bag - Zofia Kolbe-Wojdyr
In The Bag: Linsey Pollak
In the bag: Olle Gälmo
Invasion of the Zampognari
Is This a Drone I See Before Me? On bagpipe iconography
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Latvian Bagpipes: Dūdas (Somas Stabules)
Letters
Letters
Letters
Lincolnshire, Lancashire and Scotch Bagpipes: Regional and Pastoral bagpipes in 17th Century England
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Medieval Bagpipes
Macedonian Gajda – history, style and techniques
Making a Medieval Smallpipe
Making reeds for a boha in G
Masquerading as Pipers, Irish and Scottish, 1770–1825
Musette: A Passport to Various Worlds?
Mysterious Symbolism of Askos
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Nova Scotia Bagpipe Makers
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Oil Paintings of Musical Instruments – should we trust the Old Masters?
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Performers and Workshop Leaders
Pewter Inlay on the Boha
Piccola Banda di Cornamuse
Pipe Music from Underground
Pipers of the Maastricht Hours
Pipes at the Ready
Piping Down, The changing status of the bagpiper from 12th to the 17th centuries
Piping on a Monadnock
Piping Reports in the Irish Press
Possible amalgamation with The Hurdy Gurdy Society?
Pôsuträffen - The Annual Swedish Bagpipe Meeting
Print your bagpipe
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Raeren Bagpipe Bottle & Jugs
Ramsgate Buzz Preview
Reconstructing the Strozzi Bagpipe
Remembering Paul Saunders
Review - Bla Bergens Borduner CD
Review - Un infini sonore by Jean-Pierre Van Hees
Review: Footed upon the Sod - Steve Saxton
Review: Francois Couperin - Duets, Dave Rowlnds
Review: Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening - Cloud Horizons
Review: Se Vrativme: Macedonian Dances, by Orkestar Grupa “Pecalbari”
Review: Stephane Mauchand - Oxymel
Review: The Pibgorn Tunebook by Keith Lewis
Reviews - The Early Folk Band: Lumps of Pudding
rodents and bagpipes
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Southern English Border Pipes
Scottish Smallpipes
Säckpipa Workshop Weekend
Sausage skins, bladders and bagpipes
Secrets of the Website
Settala’s Sordellina: Steps in Reconstruction
Sordelline, Cornamuse e Musettes Conference
Spotlight on ... Eric Montbel in conversation with Andrea Kirkby
Spotlight on ... Gesine Bänfer and Ian Harrison
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
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The (17th century) Iain Dall Chanter links the past to the future
The 6th IBO Conference
The Amazing Airbags (plus more!)
The bagpipe as an instrument of protest: early references and recent trends
The Blowout, 3-5 June 2023
The Brexit Rant
The Burton Agnes Bagpiper
The Eskin Bagpipe Apps
The Galician Gaita in Havana (Part II)
The International Bagpipe Collection in Spain
The making of Wessmanlandsbitar
The Maltese Żaqq
The Man with the Golden Thumb
The Musette de Cour from the Calvet Museum in Avignon
The Polesworth Pipe
The Revival of the Russian Bagpipe
The Sourdeline of Manfredo Settala Part 2
The Sourdeline of Manfredo Settala, a Milanese inventor in 1640. Part 1
The Subgalaic Gaitas
The Tailor Piper
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: Goodacre's Razor - A Cut Below the Others
Traditional Croatian Bagpipes
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What’s in a name
Where to go next
Why join The Bagpipe Society? A point of view.
Wren Piping Hot Bagpipe Weekend
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Zampogna - Full Circle part 2 - Completing the Circle
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