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Free Article 'We will not pipe down' say bagpipe players.
Newspaper article from: Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Peterborough, England); 8/15/2006
Free Article Bagpipe Tamer Music.(Stand Easy; Family Favorites; Tainted)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Internet Bookwatch; 6/1/2007
Free Article Bagpipe Brothers.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Bookwatch; 12/1/2004

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'We will not pipe down' say bagpipe players.
Newspaper article from: Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Peterborough, England); 8/15/2006; 373 words ; DEVOTED city bagpipe players have labelled a new health and...Army Medical Directorate showed that bagpipes played outside can reach 111 decibles...Peterborough, has been playing the bagpipes for 60 years. Mr Kerr, who practises... Read more
Bagpipe Tamer Music.(Stand Easy; Family Favorites; Tainted)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Internet Bookwatch; 6/1/2007; 188 words ; Bagpipe Tamer Music 2525 Hermosita Drive, Glendale, CA 91208 www...thirty-four classic tunes performed solo on the Great Highland Bagpipe, including Mist Covered Mountains , Flowers of the Forest , and Auld Land Syne . An absolute treat for bagpipe lovers and bagpipe players alike. Tainted ($15.00, ... Read more
Bagpipe Brothers.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Bookwatch; 12/1/2004; 135 words ; Bagpipe Brothers Kerry Sheridan Rutgers University Press 100 Joyce...0813533961 $24.95 1-800-446-9323 http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu Bagpipe Brothers: The FDNY Band's True Story Of Tragedy, Mourning...Recovery is the true story New York City's Emerald Society Bagpipe Band, who used their instruments to ... Read more
Hear! hear the pipes are calling!(Artifact)(bagpipe)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Reason; 7/1/2008; ; 232 words ; ...SAYS Scotland like the great Highland bagpipe, that unwieldy contraption of air, tubing...it'll be fiction: In his forthcoming book Bagpipes, the historian and musician Hugh Cheape...largely invented character who played bagpipes designed specially for these events... Read more
Dance to the piper; the highland bagpipe in Nova Scotia. (CD included).(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2008; 85 words ; 978189700933X Dance to the piper; the highland bagpipe in Nova Scotia. (CD included) Shears, Barry W. Cape Breton...synthesizes his quarter century of research into such matters as bagpipe construction, its play in Scotland, its arrival in the New... Read more
Call of Dudy: Bohemian Bagpipes Across Borders.(Video recording review)
Magazine article from: Czech Music; 7/1/2007; ; 531 words ; Call of Dudy: Bohemian Bagpipes Across Borders [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Directed...Moravia they play the dulcimer, and in Bohemia the bagpipes. Regardless of the fact that in Moravia the bagpipes (which Moravians call gajdy) are still played... Read more
Original Swab intros Bagpipe Swab.(Product News)
Magazine article from: Music Trades; 11/1/2004; 62 words ; ORIGINAL SWAB COMPANY (OSC) has unveiled its new Bagpipe Swab. This two-part swab, like all other OSC swabs, has rubber-coated weights and is made from 100 percent cotton. The new swab... Read more
Blown away by bagpipes.
Newspaper article from: Bexhill Observer (Bexhill, England); 4/28/2008; 306 words ; ...held at St Mary Magdalene church hall to raise the profile of bagpiping in Bexhill. The event was organised by the Edinburgh Bagpipe Company, which is based in Sea Road, and was to publicise the work of its academy which nurtures young talent but was also... Read more
Big blow as bagpipes are stolen.
Newspaper article from: Driffield Times (Driffield, England); 1/13/2006; 85 words ; BAGPIPES and a set of African blackwood pipes worth about [pounds sterling]4,000 were stolen when thieves smashed the window of...breaking the rear side window of the Vauxhall Astra on Station Hill between 5.15pm and 6.15pm on Tuesday. Police described the bagpipes as Macpherson Bownes in a wooden box. They were ... Read more
PIPING HOT!(Oregon Life)(Fire department employees form a bagpipe band and practice at the station)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 9/21/2008; 700+ words ; ...guitars, these players are unpacking bagpipes. Eugene Fire Pipes and Drums, the Eugene Fire and EMS's recently formed bagpipe band, practices weekly at the department...drumsticks. Morris and four other bagpipers snap open black briefcase-sized cases... Read more
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