An amazing resource of recordings from great bagpipers! From Seumas Coyne's website:
For centuries, the Coyne family has searched for, collected, categorized, and maintained culturally and musically significant artifacts of the greatest pipers in bagpiping history. Until now, access to these artifacts--painstakingly converted over the years to both audio and video files--was only granted to a select group of scholars and pipe majors.
Before we start - I just want to thank my diligent co-author Dr. John Holcombe for helping me assemble this article! This article was formed…
If you take piping even slightly seriously, you'll need to share recordings of your playing. Whether you want to share a recording with a pipe…
https://youtu.be/asYqq6CyY9g Bruce Gandy recorded a couple jigs for Seumas' Citadel, a collection of categorized and maintained culturally and musically significant artifacts of the greatest pipers…
Especially in more recent history, the Highland Regiments of the British Armed Forces, and some of the Lowland Regiments as well, have had bagpipers since their first formation.
The United States Armed Forces has historically had a very close relationship with the British – so the spread of the bagpipes was inevitable.
Did you enjoy your last bagpipe performance? Was it meaningful to you as well as the audience? Did you have complete control over the delivery of that tune and your instrument?
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