PipehackerCan Good Bagpiping Come in a Can?
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Wouldn’t it be great if your band’s musical dilemmas could be solved with a ready-made packaged solution?
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Pipehacker Tip: Bagpipe Bag Hole Punch
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
For those new to the hide bag tie-in, it has always been necessary to measure out and place the spots where your stocks will insert. A quarter-sized hole is then cut into the leather and the stock pushed through. The trick is always to get as round a hole as possible. The more perfectly circular the hole, the less likely it will be to tear when you push your stock through. The only way to do this well is to have an ideally sized “punch” to stamp out that hole.
Morning Comix: PIPRZ
Monday, November 22, 2010
Morning Comix: PIPRZ—All dialogue authentically blawn!
Pipehacker Holiday Gift Guide No. 1: Gifts for Your Bagpipe
Friday, November 19, 2010
Can you believe the holiday season is upon us once more? Here at Pipehacker we love making it yourself, but sometimes there is no substitute for a well crafted, high quality item. This year, send your loved ones over here to Pipehacker.com as a (not so subtle) hint for gifts. Check back each Thursday over the coming weeks for lists of Pipehacker-approved piping gear!
Small Tunes: “Bung Your Eye!”
Friday, November 19, 2010
his happy little jig is often heard as “Lord Dunmore’s Jig” or simply “Lord Dunmore” and versions of that tune (although a bit different) can be found in many of the well kent collections of bagpipe music. That title is predated, however, by an earlier form of the tune in the eighteenth and nineteenth century collections as the slow march “Bung Your Eye.”
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