Scraping Bagpipe Chanter Reeds

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Ask twenty pipers the question “how do you scrape a chanter reed?” and you will likely get twenty different answers. There are as many treatments as there are…

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Hacking Bagpipe Competitions: Abandon the Fear

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

I was thinking about the state of US bagpiping and drumming competition. Way back in November I wrote about “The Path to Better Bagpipe Competitions” using Highland dancers…

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Susana Seivane and Bagad Kemper—Bring on the Alternate Tunings!

Friday, March 11, 2011

Here is Galician piper Susan Seivane kicking it with current Breton champions Bagad Kemper in a concert from 2008. I get the feeling this is an encore set…

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The 30-Day Bagpipe Challenge

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Matt Cutts works at Google. He also has a blog where he is currently documenting his many months of attempts to regularly try something new for 30 days….

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The Secrets of Solo Bagpipe Competition

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

On the February 3, 2011 installment of Bagpipe Nation, we covered a lot of ground talking about the game of solo bagpipe competition. And solo bagpipe competition is…

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