Pipehacker Hits the First Year: The Music Is Yours by Vince Janoski

It’s hard to believe, but a full year has passed since the very first post here on Pipehacker. In that time, there has been a tremendous amount of posts covering the inner workings of the bagpiper, a handful of projects for the handy DIY piper, a bunch of small tunes, and a lot of good [...]

Pipehacker Abroad: International Travelogue by Vince Janoski

This weekend begins a series of straight international bagpiping travel for this pipehacker and many other American bagpipers and drummers starting with this Saturday’s North American Championships at Maxville, Ontario and continuing on with various games in Scotland leading up to the World Pipe Band Championships on Glasgow Green. Posts on Pipehacker will be sporadic [...]

Morning Comix: PIPRZ by Vince Janoski

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Morning Comix: PIPRZ by Vince Janoski

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Small Tunes: “The Gown and Apron” by Vince Janoski

This jig has been a favorite among traditional musicians and makes appearances in the sets of many well known Celtic folk groups past and present. It is included in modern collections when it appears, notably in that of John Wilson, as “Am breamatain tobhain dubh.” Something rude about a “black ass” that takes a much [...]

Forget Bagpipe School, This is Bagpipe University by Vince Janoski

These days you can acquire a college degree in just about anything via the internet. Some of the first online degrees were offered through accredited institutions right here in the USA. Now, the first ever comprehensive online piping school launches out of upstate New York where you can acquire the finest bagpiping know-how from the [...]

Morning Comix: PIPRZ by Vince Janoski

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Proud to be an American (Bagpiper) by Vince Janoski

There was a time when a trip to Glasgow to play at the World Pipe Band Championships was a “pie-in-the-sky” kind of dream. Multiple reasons keeping any band from that contest were bandied about. Chalk it up to our collective inferiority complex when it comes to matters of bagpiping, maybe. It was not that long [...]