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A Bulgarian Fascination
A Coade Stone Piper
A Dancer's Perspective - Swedish dance
A Hungarian Fascination
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
All Fingers and Thumbs
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Bagpipers at the Tudor Court
Bagpipers in the Dock*
Bagpipes and all things Medieval
Bagpipes of Troyes
Billy Purvis, Union Piper
Biographies for Blowout 2024 Performers
Blowout 2010 – a hurdy-gurdy player's view
Blowout 2011 Preview
Blowout 2015
Blowout 2016
Blowout 2017
Blowout 2018 - 1st to 3rd June
Brittany
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Cabrette Tuning Yet Again...
Calls and Responses
CD Review - Jean-Claude Blank - Terre Lointaines
CD Review: Rowly-Powly by Jeremy Kingsbury
CD Reviews - Piva and WÖR
Chanter Spring 2019
Colin Ross Remembered
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Decoration or Function?
Droning On
Droning On: Oxford
Double and Triple Pipes
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Early 17th Century Bagpipes in Praetorius’s Syntagma Musicum II
End Drone
English Bagpipe Music of the 17th Century
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Final Drone
For Sale
Forthcoming Event - Medieval Music in the Dales 2017 – Bolton Castle, Wensleydale
Forthcoming Events
Further Adventures of the Wandering Piper
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Grace Notes Winter 2020
Grace Notes Winter 2022
Grace Notes Winter 2019
Grace Notes Summer 2018
Grace Notes Spring 2018
Grace Notes Spring 2016
Grace Notes Summer 2015
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Hale the Piper (cont...) and other Peak Pipers
Hungarian Duda in N. America
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I found a little nut tree lurking in the bag
Identifying “The Duke of Northumberland's Piper”
In Praise of Old Pipes
In Search of the Missing Diple
In the Bag
In the Bag
In the Bag - Paul Martin
In the Bag: Dick Hensold
In the Bag: Olle Geris
International Bagpipe Conference 2022
International Bagpipe Day 2015
Invasion of the Zampognari
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Leicestershire Smallpipes
Lowland and Border Pipes
Letters
Letters
Lincolnshire, Lancashire and Scotch Bagpipes: Regional and Pastoral bagpipes in 17th Century England
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Making a Bagpipe
Masquerading as Pipers, Irish and Scottish, 1770–1825
My Swedish Bagpipe Journey
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Northumbrian Smallpipes
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Performers and Workshop Leaders
Pipe Music from Underground
Pipes at the Ready
Piping Down, The changing status of the bagpiper from 12th to the 17th centuries
Piping Reports in the Irish Press
Putting Bagpipes on the Map
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Review: Bonny Cumberland, John Offord
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Six Go Piping in Theale
Some thoughts on cabrette tuning
Spotlight on ... Eric Montbel in conversation with Andrea Kirkby
Starting Drone
Summer 2019 Articles
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The Amazing Airbags
The Amazing Airbags (plus more!)
The bagpipe as an instrument of protest: early references and recent trends
The Bagpipe Map Revisited
The Bagpipers of John Astbury
The Blowout, 3-5 June 2023
The Burton Agnes Bagpiper
The Grotesques of Heckington
The last 30 years
The Pastoral Pipes
The Pipers' Gathering
The Polesworth Pipe
The Rosca: Part Two
The Sourdeline of Manfredo Settala, a Milanese inventor in 1640. Part 1
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