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
Bagpipe Research
The Iain Dall Chanter
This basis of this article was originally a paper that I delivered to The Piobaireachd Society Conference, Pitlochry, in March 2006.
THE IAIN DALL CHANTER LINKS THE PAST TO THE FUTURE
Bagpipes: Tradition and Innovation
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.
My Welsh Bagpipes- My Dead End Revisited!
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.
Musing on the Musa
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
The Reconstruction of Historic British Bagpipes
Based on a transcription of a talk given I gave to The Piobaireachd Society on March 19th 2005.
Mallorcan Bagpipes
An article written for Chanter, the journal of The Bagpipe Society.
Welcome Back-The Continuing Renaissance Of The English Bagpipe
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
Oil paintings of musical instruments- should we trust the Old Masters?
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.
Bagpipes In The Scottish Borders- An Emerging Jigsaw.
BAGPIPES AND HURDY- GURDIES CONFERENCE
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
bagpipe research
- The Iain Dall Chanter
- Oil paintings of musical instruments- should we trust the Old Masters?
- Bagpipes In The Scottish Borders- An Emerging Jigsaw.
- BAGPIPES AND HURDY- GURDIES CONFERENCE
- My Welsh Bagpipes- My Dead End Revisited!
- Welcome Back-The Continuing Renaissance Of The English Bagpipe
- Mallorcan Bagpipes
- Bagpipes: Tradition and Innovation
- The Reconstruction of Historic British Bagpipes
- Musing on the Musa
Bagpipes: Tradition and Innovation
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.
Barnaby Brown plays eighteenth-century Highland music on my faithful reproductions of Highland pipes and smallpipes. Callum Armstrong plays his own music on a specially modified set of my Scottish smallpipe and is exploring entirely new ways to play them.
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