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	Border Pipes, Belows-Driven Scottish Lowland Pipes in Traditional Celtic Music
		Border pipes and Northumbrians were traditionally popular on either side of the border, giving these two kinds of pipes a parallel history and a common repertoire.
		Border pipes are bellows-blown and feature a common stock with three drones, typically two tenor drones and a bass drone (in this respect, they are similar to the NSP and Scottish smallpipes).
		Most Border pipes are made in the key of A, to enhance their compatibility with other instruments used in Scottish and traditional music; some pipemakers also produce Border pipes in Bb and G. By the way, should you ever run across a set of Northumbrian half-longs, these are not the same as Northumbrian smallpipes.
	www.celtic-instruments.com /pipes/border-pipes/index.html (773 words)

	Uilleann pipes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The uilleann pipes are distinguished from other forms of bagpipes by their sweet tone and wide range of notes, together with the unique blend of chanter, drones and "regulators" (typically three extra chanter-like pipes, fitted to the mainstock and equiped with keys) which allow for the playing of simple chords and a rhythmic accompaniment.
		The modern concert pitch pipes are a relatively recent invention, pioneered by the Taylor brothers, originally of Drogheda, Ireland and later of Philadelphia, USA, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
		The pipes are generally equipped with three drones: a) the tenor drone—the highest sounding pipe, b) the baritone drone and c) the bass drone—the lowest sounding pipe, one octave below the bottom note of the chanter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uilleann_pipes (1565 words)

	Bagpipes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		All these pipes are attached to the bag by a stock, a small, usually wooden, cylinder which is tied into the bag and which the pipe itself plugs into.
		The Border pipe is a close cousin of the Highland bagpipe, and is commonly confused with the Scottish smallpipe, although it is a quite different and much older instrument.
		His original pipes changed the drone configuration to a single tenor drone pitched one octave below the chanter, a baritone drone pitched one fifth below the tenor drone, and a bass drone pitched two octaves below the chanter, following the drone set-up of the Northumbrian Half-long pipes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bagpipe (5193 words)

	Uilleann pipes -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A set of uilleann pipes is sensitive to bag pressure, temperature changes, and player skill, and can have some of its notes out of tune; even the most accomplished players do not play in tune all of the time.
		This consists of a) the pipe bag, b) the bellows and c) the (Reed pipe with finger holes on which the melody is played) chanter.
		As with other forms of bagpipes, Uillean pipes use " (A pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone) drones", which are usually two or more pipes accompanying the melody of the chanter with a constant background note.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/u/ui/uilleann_pipes.htm (1150 words)

	Garvie Bagpipes, Edinburgh - Scottish border pipes and smallpipes
		Border pipes are bellows blown, have three drones in a common stock, and a conical bore chanter.
		One way in which the Border pipes are potentially more versatile than the Highland pipes or the Scottish small pipes, is that in addition to the standard scale, the chanters can give accurately pitched cross fingered accidentals.
		After many years work I developed, in the early 1990's, a Border pipe chanter which was fully chromatic by cross fingering, giving a good minor third, minor sixth, major seventh, sharp fourth, and minor second, without altering the standard fingering of the normal pipe scale.
	www.borderpipes.co.uk /border.htm (407 words)

	Article - Border Pipes
		The border pipes are a musical instrument that is a close cousin of the Great Highland Bagpipe.
		An important difference between the music of the Border pipes and of the Great Highland Bagpipe is that many melodic figures in older Border pipe music typically move stepwise or in thirds rather than by wide intervals, and lack the multiple repeated notes found in many Highland pipe tunes.
		This suggests that in contrast to the Highland pipes, Border pipe music neither needed, nor greatly used, the complex graces which are so characteristic of Highland pipe music.
	www.bagpiper.com /info/n-62/border-pipes.html (766 words)

	Scotland >> Crafts >> Bagpipes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the late 18th century, pipes were incorporated into the British Army, and both the instrument and its repertoire were standardized.
		Pipe music, originally passed down aurally, was notated, and competitions were established to encourage "correct" playing.
		In centuries past, many Scottish border towns employed a town piper to play in the streets early in the morning and sound the curfew at night.
	www.folklife.si.edu /resources/Festival2003/scot_bagpipes.htm (509 words)

	Border Bagpipes made by Julian Goodacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		During the 17th and 18th centuries the Scottish Border was a centre of popularity for the use of these pipes and each town employed its own toun piper.
		My Border Pipe is a copy of a fine set of bellows-blown Border pipes that were given to the Royal Scottish Museum in the 1920s by a family from Peebles.
		The original pipes have the splendid combination of one bass drone and two tenors, set in their common stock.
	www.goodacrepipes.mcmail.com /border_bagpipe.htm (547 words)

	McGillivray Piping Products : Bagpipes : Chanters : Reeds and More!
		Border pipes developed in the lowlands of Scotland and in the Border regions where Scotland and England meet, predominantly in the Northumberland region around Newcastle.
		Border pipes can also be equipped with a drone switch which allows the drones to be completely shut off in one quick motion.
		The standard Evans Border pipe is in the key of 'A' and is mounted with silver plated ferrules and African flwood ring caps and button-style projecting mounts.
	www.piping.on.ca /browseproducts.asp?catID=128 (1697 words)

	The Pipers' Gathering - North America's most comprehensive alternative bagpipe event
		As noted above, one of the distinguishing characteristics of Northumbrian pipes is having all their drones mounted in a common stock, and this feature is also thought to have been introduced from the Low Countries or Germany (where now-extinct pipes had this form) at about the same time as bellows.
		Chanters of this type were then combined with Border pipe style drones, and these relatively quiet pipes with an open-ended chanter survived for a while, but then seem to have died out.
		Adaptations of these tunes to the restricted 9-note (in the case of Border pipes), or 8-note (Northumbrian smallpipe) chanters were attempted, with varying degrees of success.
	www.pipersgathering.org /Northumbrian.shtml (1852 words)

	Frequently asked questions about purchasing Uilleann Pipes and Scottish Smallpipes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I play Uilleann pipes and GHB in a three piece group and was wondering which set of pipes (small or border) would be useful with my band, which set of pipes would have more volume, easier to reed, easier to maintain and so forth.
		Pipes which are blown by mouth take an enormous amount of moisture which is carried through the breath and this means that reeds in particular can last only a very short time before they need replacing.
		The 'feel' of a bagpipe, bellows pipes in particular, is quite different since of course you have a bag under your arm filled with air and you have to be able to control the pressure on the bag properly in order to maintain a steady sound.
	www.raysloan.com /questions.html (2527 words)

	The Pipers' Gathering - North America's most comprehensive alternative bagpipe event
		The pipes were traditionally popular on both sides of the border, this being reflected in what was often a common repertoire between the Scottish Borders and Northumberland.
		In Scotland many of the border towns employed a border piper who’s duty it was to play through the streets in the early morning and to sound the curfew at night.
		The majority of people purchasing bellows blown pipes are Highland pipers and a large part of the attraction for them is to have an instrument which is quiet enough to be played indoors, is in tune, is low maintenance and is a contrast to their Highland pipes.
	www.pipersgathering.org /Borderpipes.shtml (3460 words)

	Jimmy Young, Pipeworks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Young, founder of the New Zealand group Rua, uses the album as a conduit to deliver different types of bagpipes -- the Scottish smallpipes, Northumbrian pipes and border pipes -- and blends them with the mandolin, fiddle, viola, hurdy gurdy, mandola, and cello.
		The Northumbrian pipes, according to the Northumbrian Smallpipes Encylopaedia, take their name from Northumberland, England, a county on the Scottish border.
		Border pipes, according to the site, are the same as Northumbrian half-longs: a larger, louder version of the subtle Northumbrian smallpipes.
	www.greenmanreview.com /pipeworks.html (554 words)

	Jimi McRae - Jimi the Piper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Degger Pipes from Germany and an earlier Canadian model are both used, I hope to great effect, on this album.
		Lowland bellows pipes, Highland pipes and Arabic pipes.
		Border pipes(bellows blown) electronic pipes and Highland pipes(for the marching refrain).
	www.offbeat.co.uk /jimimcrae/synopsis.htm (654 words)

	Julian Goodacre-Bagpipemaker, Border Bapipe
		During the 17th and 18th centuries the Scottish Border was a centre of popularity for the use of these pipes and each town employed its own toun piper.
		My Border Pipe is a copy of a fine set of bellows-blown Border pipes that were given to the Royal Scottish Museum in the 1920s by a family from Peebles.
		The original pipes have the splendid combination of one bass drone and two tenors, set in their common stock.
	www.goodbagpipes.co.uk /border_bagpipe.htm (512 words)

	Encyclopedia: Bagpipes
		This claim is untrue; there is no mention of the bagpipe in the Act of Proscription, and the entire myth seems to stem from the 1822 letterpress of Donald MacDonald's A Collection of the Ancient Martial Music of Caledonia, called Piobaireachd, written by an unknown Romantic.
		Pipe Major There are many kinds of bagpipes, but the best-known is the piob mhor or Great Highland Bagpipes, which were developed in Scotland.
		A Pipe band is a traditional Scottish musical group consisting of bagpipes and drums.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bagpipes (8832 words)

	Border pipes in G, by Mark Gibbens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Border Pipes are relatively strong sounding bagpipes which were played widely across the Northern England and Southern Scotland in the 17th and 18th Centuries.
		For a two-drone set of border pipes, my drones are tuned to G one and two octaves below the lower keynote of the chanter.
		This configuration allows the pipes to be played in the keys of G, G minor, C and C minor.
	www.gibbenswoodwind.f9.co.uk /catalogue/border.htm (359 words)

	The Pipers' Gathering - North America's most comprehensive alternative bagpipe event.
		An early form of the Border pipes was played in the Borders region of Lowland Scotland and Northern England around 1700.
		The Border pipes chanter has the same nine-note range and is generally in A. Jon Swayne's pipes derive from the Border pipes tradition, but add elements of French pipes.
		Uilleann pipes are made in the keys of Bb, B, C, C# and the modern and more common key of D. Unlike the pipes described above, the Northumbrian smallpipes from Northeast England have a stopped-end chanter.
	www.pipersgathering.org /CD.shtml (994 words)

	Bob's Bagpipes
		The Highland pipes have a conical bored chanter which plays a 9 note mixolydian mode, starting on the subtonic, called G through high A. Drones are configured Bass, tenor, tenor.
		The chanter tonic note and drones are referrd to as A, but most modern pipes are tuned to concert B flat or higher.
		Most Lowland pipes, also called Border pipes or Reel pipes, are bellows activated, but they may also be mouth-blown.
	mysite.verizon.net /BobCameronPiper/pipes.html (401 words)

	BagMart
		Student Border Pipes by Jonathan Swayne in G. Bellows blown with G and C drones.
		Deger Pipes for Sale, Immaculate condition and light use, have been altered by the maker so the drone can also be made a note higher to enable playing in additional minor keys.
		Pipes are not in playing condition so the buyer must be ready to make some adjustments.The reed and blowpipe valve has to be replaced or adjusted.
	www.bagpipesociety.org.uk /bagmart.htm (1270 words)

	Scott's Highland Services Ltd. - Bagpipes, Drums, Books, Recordings & Accessories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Gordon's second album where he plays the highland pipes, practice chanter and Overton whistle and is back up with banjo, guitar, Ugandan harp, bass guitar, drums and percussion.
		Pipe settings included for many of the tunes.
		Angus is one of the finest solo performers and this album is a good example of the skill that he has on the pipes.
	www.scottshighland.com /rec/recsp.htm (446 words)

	Jihad Watch: Pipes on border security
		Spokeswoman Kristie Clemens explained that her agency had information on how events such as the one in Toronto "may be used by terrorist organizations to promote terrorist activities, which includes traveling and fund raising." Ms.
		Another, seven months' pregnant, reported that border agents lifted her blouse to make sure she really was pregnant.
		A third traveler quotes himself asking a border guard, "If I refuse to give my fingerprints, what will you do?" to which he got a terse reply: "You can refuse, but you'll be here until you do."...
	www.jihadwatch.org /archives/005907.php (1593 words)

	David Faulkner and Steve Turner
		Recorded music on the Border pipes is still rather rare, and this new record is to be welcomed.
		(of whom both these musicians form part), and Border Pipes contributions to mixed recordings by Scottish piping societies, this is the first CD entirely devoted to the instrument played (virtually) solo that has come my way.
		My guess is that this is done to make the CD somewhat more accessible to a wider audience than would have been available to a purist solo pipes recording, and it's true that it opens up a wider harmonic landscape, and gives a slightly more 'interesting' overall sound.
	www.mustrad.org.uk /reviews/eb_pipe2.htm (419 words)

	The Border Bagpipe
		Those with cylindrical bore chanters include the 'Old' small pipes, the Northumbrian small pipes (with the end of the chanter stopped and a whole different fingering style), the Scottish small pipes (not dissimilar in fingering and tuning to the Highland pipes), and the 'shuttle pipes' (related to the French 'Musette de Cour').
		Those with tapered bored chanters included the 'pastoral pipes' and 'union pipes' (similar to the Uilleann or Irish pipes) and the 'Lowland Pipes'- with drones coming out of a common stock.
		John's border pipes are slightly different to all the above.
	www.earthlydelights.com.au /instruments3.htm (287 words)

	Winnipeg Piper's Circle
		Highland piper, Scottish Smallpipes, Shuttle pipes and the Tin Whistle.
		A dry winter was not friendly to the bellows blown pipes, but we managed to squeek out a few tunes.
		Larry brought out his Kilberry Scottish smallpipes (D) and his new Renaissance Border pipes in G. I brought my Scotish Smallpipes (A) and Uilleann pipes.
	www.geocities.com /winnipegpiperscircle (339 words)

	Andy's Front Hall - Bagpipes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The end of the chanter is closed, making this the only pipe able to play in a staccato manner.
		In the early 19th century, keys were added to the chanter to give a greater range of notes and to enable playing in different keys.
		The Clough family piping tradition can be traced back almost 250 years, and their manuscript collection, on which the musical section of the book is based, contains much unique material.
	www.andysfronthall.com /bagpipes.html (470 words)

	Hamish Moore of Dunkeld - maker of Scottish smallpipes and Highland bagpipes
		The pipes are harmonically rich, easy to maintain and due to a lack of moisture in the system the reeds are very stable and have a life of many years.
		When these pipes were copied and reeded, they were found to play naturally in the key of A. This has been most useful for people playing with orchestras and has also been put to good use in folk bands.
		The museum pipes have two tenor drones and one bass drone issuing from a common stock; with a conical bore chanter and they are made from what appears to be a fruitwood with horn mounts and ferrules.
	www.hamishmoore.musicscotland.com /essay.htm (3185 words)

	Matt Seattle, Dragonfly Music
		Lowland Pipes and Northumberland Half-long Pipes) were played in Lowland Scotland, the Borders and Northern England in the 18th century and successfully revived in the 1980s and 90s.
		Quieter and sweeter-sounding than Highland Pipes but with a stronger tone than either Scottish or Northumbrian Smallpipes, Border Pipes have their own repertoire of music from both sides of the Border, from sprightly dance tunes to soulful slow airs.
		Matt has researched and published two influential books of Border pipe music, The Master Piper (1995, reprinted 2002) being an edition of the William Dixon manuscript of 1733, the oldest-known substantial collection of bagpipe music from the British Isles.
	www.theborderpiper.co.uk (605 words)

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