Old style Highland piping

[Nathan]

I, ve found instructions for the bag, and Cornish doublepipes don't use drones anyway, but two chanters. Rather than boring the chanters, I think I will use two pieces of wood each and use a router to hollow out a half circle, then glue them together and finish them as one piece. I can use the hole measurements from my practice chanter and I will also probably use practice chanter reeds.
Do you think this would work?
Thanks for the advice,

I guess you'd have to ask a bagpipe maker... I just like history and Celtic music...

[tulloch]

I love the music of Cape Breton! Thanks for that.

[OC Richard]

Barry Shears is an expert on the traditional Cape Breton piping, he's written a book on it I think. Here's a thread where he discusses the Cape Breton piping history

http://forums.bobdunsire.com/forums/.../t-113208.html

About the Cornish Doublepipes, some of the carvings show a single drone, some show no drones. No actual instruments exist so all our modern Cornish pipes are based on one or more of these carvings.

http://www.bagpipeworld.co.uk/countr.../altarnun.html

[Nathan]

Barry Shears is an expert on the traditional Cape Breton piping, he's written a book on it I think. Here's a thread where he discusses the Cape Breton piping history

http://forums.bobdunsire.com/forums/.../t-113208.html

About the Cornish Doublepipes, some of the carvings show a single drone, some show no drones. No actual instruments exist so all our modern Cornish pipes are based on one or more of these carvings.

http://www.bagpipeworld.co.uk/countr.../altarnun.html

Barry is from my home town. Here's Barry talking about the style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OyxIMSelY8

Here he is playing it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8xLPVzqAdw

[piperchris]

Very interesting! Beautifully done! Thank you!

[Nathan]

I just read an interesting interview with Shears that was published in Cape Breton magazine where he goes into the dance (ceol beag) tradition as well as the pibroach (ceol mor) tradition in Cape Breton. Interestingly, a lot of pipers are decended from a certain MacIntyre who, prior to emmigrating, was the official piper of the Captain of Clanranald. I read it in a bound book, but found a copy of the article in which Shears provides considerable detail here:

http://capebretonsmagazine.com/modul...hp?itemid=3296