Small Tunes Podcast: “The Witch’s Stane” by Vince Janoski

This moving and poignant slow march appears in only one place in print as near as I could discover, and that is in the J & R Glen Collection, first published in 1870. The witch’s stane mentioned in the title is a small stone that stands in the garden of a cottage in the western [...]

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Small Tunes Podcast: “The Lassie Lost Her Crinoline” by Vince Janoski

This episode’s tune is “The Lassie Lost Her Crinoline.” This small reel is like many of the early 20th century: Lots of open rhythm with quick top hand/low hand dynamics and a nice swing. The tune has got one of those great off-color titles common of the period that involves ladies and some suggestive situation. [...]

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Small Tunes Podcast: “The Death of the Wren” by Vince Janoski

This episode’s tune is a little something for the upcoming holiday season: “The Death of the Wren.” This small, driving reel is not unlike many of the idiom, with echoes of more commonly heard melody lines hidden in its old measures. The title likely commemorates the killing of “the King of all birds” on St. [...]

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Pipehacker Presents the Small Tunes Podcast—Vintage Melodies from the Bagpipe Tradition by Vince Janoski

Regular readers of Pipehacker will be familiar with the “Small Tunes” feature post: Occassional postings of new arrangements to old and forgotten tunes that are part of our piping tradition. In a new twist on the feature, the “Small Tunes” post will be converted into a short podcast and become what is essentially the first-ever [...]

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Bagpipe Nation Podcast for May 26, 2011 by Vince Janoski

The latest episode of Bagpipe Nation is below for listening and downloading. In this recorded episode, hosts Andrew Douglas and Vince Janoski play desktop judge and review the Grade 3 band performances from this past weekend’s Colonial Highland Gathering at Fair Hill, Maryland. Listen the bands in the playlist below and follow along. Subscribe to [...]

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Bagpipe Nation Podcast April 28, 2011 by Vince Janoski

The April 28, 2011 episode of Bagpipe Nation is below for listening and downloading. In this recorded episode, hosts Andrew Douglas and Vince Janoski talk about how to practice for success. Andrew unlocks the methods for creating an effective practice routine that will drive you toward personal improvement in your bagpiping. Subscribe to the podcast [...]

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Bagpipe Nation Podcast April 14, 2011 by Vince Janoski

The April 14, 2011 episode of Bagpipe Nation is below for listening and downloading. Host Andrew Douglas and Vince Janoski talk about this weekend’s Oran Mor Spring Training workshops and delve further into the problem and solution to possible bagpipe competition extinction. Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes or directly in your feed reader by [...]

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Bagpipe Nation March 31, 2011 by Vince Janoski

The March 31, 2011 episode of Bagpipe Nation is below for listening and downloading. Hosts Vince Janoski and Andrew Douglas chat with special guest Nate Wahlgren in a lively discussion on the current logic of the EUSPBA’s Grade 4 full-tune piobaireachd rule—what it might do to competitors, how many contests have canceled the event entirely, [...]

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