This basis of this article was originally a paper that I delivered to The Piobaireachd Society Conference, Pitlochry, in March 2006.
My article for FoMRHI, the Fellowship of Makers and Researchers of Historic Instruments. about the use of mirrors and lenses by artists from 1420 and the implications for modern instrument makers when interpreting and copying paintings of musical instruments.
This is the History chapter that I wrote for MORE POWER TO YOUR ELBOW - A practical Manual to the buying, playing and maintenance of the Scottish bellows blown bagpipes. Book published by The Lowland and Border Pipers’ Society. 2003. ISBN 0 9522711 O 9
BAGPIPES AND HURDY- GURDIES CONFERENCE
‘A Centenary Celebration for the Pitt Rivers Museum’
OXFORD, 21-23RD SEPTEMBER 1984
I wrote this article for Chanter, the journal of the Bagpipe Society, in April 2012
An article for Chanter, the journal of the Bagpipe Society,in January 2009, in which I look back at my design of Welsh bagpipes and examine my reasons for dropping it from my range of pipes.
This is an overview of the current revival of English bagpipes that I wrote for a programme in The Edinburgh Festival in the early 2000's
A 40 minute video of a lecture and recital that I presented at the 2014 Royal Greenwich International Early Music Festival, London to demonstrate contrasting approaches to my instrument making.
Based on a transcription of a talk given I gave to The Piobaireachd Society on March 19th 2005.
An article originally published in Chanter, journal of the Bagpipe Society, in May 2014. A description of my interaction with and copying of, the MüSa, a bagpipe from the north of Italy