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A New Way to Melrose - A Selection of Tunes from around the World
The Society has been holding teaching weekends at Melrose for some fifteen years and some of the tunes taught there form the basis for this book, hence its title 'A New Way to Melrose'. Since the Highland and the Border repertoires are well represented in current publications, they are excluded from the scope of this book. What the book does is present tunes from Scandanavia to Shetland, from Quebec to Galicia and Brittany and a whole lot more; 142 tunes in all, arranged for Scottish Smallpipes and Border Pipes.
PREFACE (PDF)
CONTENTS (PDF)
The Society has been holding teaching weekends at Melrose for some fifteen years and some of the tunes taught there form the basis for this book, hence its title 'A New Way to Melrose'. Since the Highland and the Border repertoires are well represented in current publications, they are excluded from the scope of this book. What the book does is present tunes from Scandanavia to Shetland, from Quebec to Galicia and Brittany and a whole lot more; 142 tunes in all, arranged for Scottish Smallpipes and Border Pipes.
PREFACE (PDF)
CONTENTS (PDF)
A Collection of Pipe Tunes - a joint publication with the Northumbrian Pipers Society
This is a revised and expanded edition of the book jointly published by the Northumbrian Piping Society and the LBPS. It presents tunes from 'Peacock's Tunes' and the 'Northumbriam Minstrelsy' in versions suitable for playing on open ended pipes. The book is A5 landscape and has 56 pages.
CONTENTS (PDF)
This is a revised and expanded edition of the book jointly published by the Northumbrian Piping Society and the LBPS. It presents tunes from 'Peacock's Tunes' and the 'Northumbriam Minstrelsy' in versions suitable for playing on open ended pipes. The book is A5 landscape and has 56 pages.
CONTENTS (PDF)
The Wind in the Bellows - a handbook for teachers and students of border pipes & scottish smallpipes
The Wind in the Bellows is a logical step forward from its predecessor, More Power to your Elbow, and it is surely a step in the right direction.
While the new book focuses on the business of teaching Border pipes and Scottish smallpipes, it also develops some of the principles and proposals put forward by its predecessor; thus these two volumes are 'intimately linked'.
As all three writers in the Preface have suggested, this is yet another advance along the road of revival and re-development of the bellows pipes that have their origins in the Lowlands of Scotland and the Borders.
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The Wind in the Bellows is a logical step forward from its predecessor, More Power to your Elbow, and it is surely a step in the right direction.
While the new book focuses on the business of teaching Border pipes and Scottish smallpipes, it also develops some of the principles and proposals put forward by its predecessor; thus these two volumes are 'intimately linked'.
As all three writers in the Preface have suggested, this is yet another advance along the road of revival and re-development of the bellows pipes that have their origins in the Lowlands of Scotland and the Borders.
MORE INFORMATION (PDF)
Gordon Mooney's Collections of Music for Lowland and Border Bagpipes
The last twenty five years have seen a wonderful revival of interest in the music of the Borders and this is due, in no small part, to the pioneering work of Gordon Mooney. Gordon was one of the founding members of the Lowland and Border Pipers' Society which has since done much to promote the playing of 'Cauld Wind Pipes'.
Possibly the two most important of Gordon's collections of Border music were 'O'er the Border' and 'Choicest Tunes'. Both have been out of print for many years and the Society takes great pleasure in producing this combined collection. These were seminal works and deserve a place in any bellows piper's library.
The book comprises 72 pages which include settings of 95 tunes as well as comprehensive background notes.
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**ERRATA**
The last twenty five years have seen a wonderful revival of interest in the music of the Borders and this is due, in no small part, to the pioneering work of Gordon Mooney. Gordon was one of the founding members of the Lowland and Border Pipers' Society which has since done much to promote the playing of 'Cauld Wind Pipes'.
Possibly the two most important of Gordon's collections of Border music were 'O'er the Border' and 'Choicest Tunes'. Both have been out of print for many years and the Society takes great pleasure in producing this combined collection. These were seminal works and deserve a place in any bellows piper's library.
The book comprises 72 pages which include settings of 95 tunes as well as comprehensive background notes.
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**ERRATA**
More Power to Your Elbow - A Manual for the Bellows-blown Bagpipe
A practical guide to acquiring, playing, tuning and maintaining Scottish bellows-blown bagpipes. Includes a tutorial CD-ROM. Runs in all versions of Windows and in 'pre-Leopard' versions of Mac; users of the newer Mac operating systems CLICK HERE
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A practical guide to acquiring, playing, tuning and maintaining Scottish bellows-blown bagpipes. Includes a tutorial CD-ROM. Runs in all versions of Windows and in 'pre-Leopard' versions of Mac; users of the newer Mac operating systems CLICK HERE
****PLEASE NOTE****
Windows 7 users will need to download the latest Quick Time 7 from http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
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Out of the Flames - Proceedings of the Peebles Collogue
The LBPS is pleased to announce the long-awaited publication of this book of proceedings of a Collogue entirely devoted to the William Dixon manuscript, rescued literally 'out of the flames' in 1908 and unearthed again in 1995 by Matt Seattle. This is a companion volume to the above and finally gives the Dixon Collection the scholarly recognition that it deserves.
Contributors include, Roderick Cannon, Matt Seattle, Dick Hensold, Rob MacKillop, Peter Stewart and David Johnson. Edited by John Goodacre.
Suggested Session Tune Book (orange)
The LBPS 'suggested' session tunes book. A collection of 68 well known tunes commonly played in sessions. The tunes have been graded as Easy, Medium and Medium/hard to help beginners get started. Standard musical notation and key signatures have been used to aid other musicians and Guitar chords are included. A handy book to get a session going.
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Suggested Duets Book (blue)
A companion volume to 'Suggested Session Tunes' containing some 55 arrangements of traditional and contemporary tunes. The first half of the book has duets (and trios) for pipes (or other instruments) in the same pitch. The remainder of the tunes are arranged for pipes in different pitches to play along in harmony (sometimes unison) with one another. For example, pipes pitched in A with pipes in D: pipes in C with pipes in Bb: Border pipes with Scottish smallpipes - and even Scottish smallpipes with Northumbrian smallpipes.
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50 (plus) Lowland and Border Tunes (pink)
(The new incarnation of the "Pink Book")
This volume contains the 49 border tunes from Gordon Mooney's original LBPS Tutor along with an added selection of tunes and songs currently out of print or in limited circulation, chosen and edited by George Greig. Excellent value for money.
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