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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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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 suitable for PC or Mac.
Contains more than 50 tunes, many previously unpublished. Not sold separately. Wire spiral bound. Not just for beginners, this is a complete manual for the bagpipe designed to assist anyone who may not have access to a local maker or fellow pipers.
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A practical guide to acquiring, playing, tuning and maintaining Scottish bellows-blown bagpipes. Includes a tutorial CD-ROM suitable for PC or Mac.
Contains more than 50 tunes, many previously unpublished. Not sold separately. Wire spiral bound. Not just for beginners, this is a complete manual for the bagpipe designed to assist anyone who may not have access to a local maker or fellow pipers.
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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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The Master Piper (Dixon Collection)
William Dixon's Manuscript of tunes from 1733 is the earliest known written record of bagpipe tunes. The manuscript was nearly lost and languished in Perth library for many years until unearthed and brought to life by Matt Seattle - the editor of this 2nd edition. The book contains excellent examples of tunes in the Border style, an extensive foreword and analogous musical quotations from other sources facing the Dixon tunes.