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Julian Goodacre bagpipe maker

  • home
  • Blog
  • About Me
    • My Approach
    • My Workshop
    • My Writings
      • Miscellaneous writings
      • Bagpipe research
      • Pipe Making
    • From Tree to Pipe
    • Collaborations
  • My Bagpipes
    • English Bagpipes
      • Leicestershire Smallpipe
      • English Great Pipe
      • English Doublepipe
      • Cornish Doublepipe
      • Border Horn
    • Scottish Bagpipes
      • Scottish Smallpipes
      • Border Pipes
      • Great Highland Bagpipe
      • Montgomery Smallpipes
    • Other Bagpipes
      • Dürer Pipes
  • Your Bagpipe?
    • Choosing Your Bagpipe
    • Buying your bagpipe
      • FAQ
      • My Waiting List
    • Beginning Your Piping
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To view a trailer for the details of CD's and Books click HERE

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

various writings

  • A Broken Glass
  • Damage to bagpipes caused by rats.
  • GEORGE BURCHILL & PIPING IN GREECE
  • Gnaoua
  • Into the Woods
  • John Hegley and Me
  • Why Do I Play The Bagpipes?

 This year (2016) was the 27th time that I have exhibited my pipes at St Chartier/Chateau D'Ars and I have been taking time to go through my photos and reflect on this annual pilgrimage I have continued to make nearly every year since 1985.

I realised that I have spent over a third of my Julys in central France at this wonderful festival which has had a big impact on many people lives; people who love to hear and dance to drone music. When I first went there in 1985 I had only just begun making pipes and it was inspiring to come into contact with so many established pipemakers. Instrument making tends to be a fairly solitary occupation and St Chartier provides a unique annual opportunity to make friends and connections with more and more pipers and pipemakers from all over the world.

>The festival is now 35 years old. Up until 2008 it was held at the chateux in the little village of St Chartier, near La Chatre, Indre, Central France. Over the years it has became an important Mecca for Bagpipe and Hurdy Gurdy makers and other instrument makers.

In 2009 the Chateau was sold and the festival moved to another Chateau D’Ars which is only a few kilometres away. However, after so many years, it is hard not to refer to it as St Chartier. It is a great new venue with 120 instrument makers stalls scattered around a large wooded area as well as dance floors and a big outdoor concert area behind the chateau.

If you haven’t been it is time you did!  It is usually a 3 or 4 day event and is always timed around July 14th.

Visit their website http://lesoncontinu.net/en/

My St Chartier Hat

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