Review’…a superb occupation of supplying the uninitiated with the basic data necessary to be grateful for the diversity and beauty of the bagpipe music… copious notes and a marvellous bibliography…’ Scotia ‘The definitive history and description of the instrument’ – Cannan ‘… clear, forthright and effortlessly understood… captivating reading’ – The New Zealand Herald
About the AuthorRoderick Cannon presently lives in Norwich and teaches at the University of East Anglia. He is acknowledged as one the world’s leading authorities on piping.
Highland Bagpipe
This is a new edition of Roderick Cannon’s classic work, a definitive and gravely acclaimed history of the origins and music of Scotland’s most widely known and esteemed instrument. The eminently readable text will be of interest not only to pipers but to all those music lovers world wide who are intrigued to recognise more with regards to the reputation and extraordinary history of the legendary pipes. The author covers both Ceol Mor and Ceol Beag, Piobaireachd, dance music, martial music, music for competitions and music for pleasure, music for pipe bands as well as a commentary on the state of piping today. Updated from it is last paperback edition, this book is the only comprehensive history of piping in print and has never been surpassed. This is a reprint of Roderick Cannon’s altered text.
The Highland bagpipe, a shortened term for the Great Highland bagpipe, is probably the most standard form of bagpipe today. Also known as Scottish bagpipes, Highland bagpipes are woodwind instruments that originated from Scotland and Ireland. They are known to be the best bagpipes in the world, and are ordinarily being employed in marching bands, musical performances, and symphonic orchestras.
Parts
Highland bagpipes are double-reed instruments that are specifically made up of a bag, a chanter, a blowpipe, two tenor drones, and one bass drone. The chanter has a scale in Mixolydian mode with a flattened 7th or leading tone. It has a range from one whole tone lower than the tonic to one octave above it. Meanwhile, the pipe bag has to be inflated with air.
Kinds
Highland bagpipes come in two sets: Highland bagpipe exercise sets and Highland bagpipe full sets.
The Highland bagpipe exercise set is perfective for beginners and young players who want to master the art of bag piping. It is the most inexpensive kind of bagpipe set and is very easy to use.
A exercise chanter allows for easy playing. It likewise does not have drones, permitting the player to exercise proper breath control and maintain optimal bag pressure. Most exercise sets also come with stealth features so other humans will not be troubled by it is sound.
Meanwhile, Highland bagpipe full sets consist of a pipe bag, a chanter, a blowpipe, one bass drone, and two tenor drones. The chanter plays in the Mixolydian scale ranging from the key of low G to the key of high A. It is commonly used by pipe bands in military and civilian performances.
Buying tips
When looking to buy Highland bagpipes, look for one that has a sturdy reed for better-quality, more stable, and trouble-free sound production.
Also, determine your level of psychological result of perception learning and reasoning in bag piping. Buy exercise sets if you are a beginner.
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16 of 16 humans found the following review helpful.
 For pipers, this is a must!
By A
One of the best comprehensive examinations of the Highland pipes out there! Historical selective information is clear and unusually accurate, avoiding romance. Covers the development of the GHB and it is attendant uses and traditions from it is earliest appearances through the present day; veritably an impressive work. Cannon’s scholarship is unassailable.
13 of 13 persons found the following review helpful.
This is a wondrous resource.
By A
This is a comprehensive work that covers the history of the GHB, dance tune as well as military traditions, pibroch, and construction. This is a terrifi resource for pipers and anybody with an interst in the pipes; it is a indepth discussion of the GHB’s history and music. And my fellow piping students will be grateful for it is discussion regarding exercise chanters and tutoring methods all around the ages. Incidentally, there is a reasonable amount of data on other pipes.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
A classic study on the subject
By A. Hartmann-Virnich
A rudimentary and perfectly recommendable study on it is subject, based on a immense bibliography, by a famous scholar and editor of classic bagpipe music. However, Mr. Cannon’s book having been written over two decades ago a more exhaustive update than the revised edition would be welcome. Readers more exceptionally mesmerized in the historical topics will find further necessary publications, including Mr. Cannon’s splendid edition of Joseph MacDonald’s early bagpipe treatise and Hugh Cheape’s recent book on the history of Scottish bagpipes (H. Cheape, Bagpipes, A National Collection of a National Instrument, Edinburgh, NMS, 2008).
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