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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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.”
DIY Guitar Picks
Friday, November 12, 2010
This is the probably the coolest gizmo I’ve seen in a long while. Pipehacker does not play guitar but if he did, he would be making hundreds out of old credit cards and hotel keys. I want one for practice chanter reeds.
Small Tunes: “The Haughs of Cromdale”
Friday, November 5, 2010
The “Haughs of Cromdale” commemorates a battle that took place on April 30, 1690, in which a tiny Jacobite force was routed on the low ground (haughs) at Cromdale. The battle was small, but the result was accepted as the effective end of the Jacobite uprising.
5 Ways to Build Good Bagpipe Practice Habits
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
What is the most difficult aspect of learning bagpipes or pipe band drumming? It’s not the music and it’s not playing or maintaining the instrument. It is practicing or, building the habits to practice.
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