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RECORDINGS AND TUNE BOOKS     November 2005

CALL FOR YER PIPERS THREE
The Goodacre Brothers. This was first released in 1991 as a cassette and has proved so popular over the years that we have rereleased it as a CD.
PRICE: GBP £10.00 

PIPEMAKER CALLS YER TUNES

My solo CD, which features piping solos, duets, a trio, and a quintet as well as me playing along with various other instruments. Mostly English dance music. All the tunes in this CD can be found in the three Toodle-Oodle tune books.
PRICE: GBP £10.00 

The English Bagpipe revival has been underway for about 20 years; Julian Goodacre has been a pioneer throughout that time developing and playing an exciting range of pipes. His enthusiastic championing of the English bagpipe and its music has been an inspiration to many.

As a player he is best known as one third of the English Bagpipe trio The Goodacre Brothers. On this CD Julian releases himself from the confines of the rarefied atmosphere of  The Goodacre Brothers' three-part harmony, and revels in a variety of approaches, recording for the first time the kinds of piping he has been playing for dancing over the past twenty years. He has brought together eleven friends, all experienced English Dance musicians, playing between them sixteen different instruments including six varieties of bagpipes in a host of combinations from solo to a seven piece band. 

The bagpipes were once the instrument for dancing in the English Countryside. Increasing urbanisation led to them falling into disfavour until by the 18th Century they were regarded solely as an instrument of the North. A wealth of old English Dance tunes has survived for over two centuries without having been played on the pipes. 

With this groundbreaking recording, Julian's infectious enjoyment and humour breathe new life into these old tunes; this is a celebration of English dance music with pipes once more at the centre.

TUNE BOOKS

I supply a select range of bagpipe tune books, six of which are produced by myself and my brothers. 
When starting to play the English pipes, finding a repertoire is obviously essential. My three Toodle-Oodle Books are full of great English tunes, each of which is eminently pipeable. These tunes are rapidly becoming the basis of the new English piping repertoire and are essential for all English Bagpipers.

THE DAY IT DAWS:
The Lowland Scots Bagpipe and its Music 1400 to 1715. 

This is Pete Stewart’s Scottish companion volume to ‘Robin with the Bagpipe’. It contains music played by bagpipers described in Scots sources from the 15^th to the 17^th centuries and charts the history of piping in the Lowlands from the 15^th century to the first appearance of  music set for bagpipes in the early 18^th century.
"In bringing together this splendid repertoire with the historical context within which it was set, Pete Stewart has set a new standard in the published scholarship of the lowland piping tradition ... his research is meticulous and penetrating .. yet remaisn highly readable .. he has acheived a synthesis of music and history that greatly enhances our understanding of both" (Dr Gary West, Dept of Scottish and Celtic Studies, University of Edinburgh)  MORE>>

PRICE GBP £17.50

ROBIN WITH THE BAGPIPE

Pete Stewart has been playing traditional dance music for over thirty years and has been piping for fifteen of them. The fruits of his playing and researching English piping are contained in this long awaited collection. The book combines literary descriptions, pictorial and sculptural representations and an historical commentary with 70 tunes from across eight centuries, many unavailable in print elsewhere, to present a vivid picture of a more or less forgotten aspect of English musical life, as well as offering a unique repertoire to today’s players.
This publication is an important contribution to the reclamation of piping traditions and should be in every piper’s instrument case.
“Bagpipes were a feature of the English scene for many centuries and Pete Stewart has done a grand job of collecting, editing and playing the music of this neglected tradition.”
(Roderick Cannon, author of ‘The Highland Bagpipe and its Music” and “A Bibliography of Bagpipe Music”) MORE>>

PRICE: GBP £13.00,

Robin now has his own pages on this site at Robin With The Bagpipe- The English Bagpipe and its Music

THE WHITE HOUSE HORNPIPE. 

"This collection of 24 original tunes is a great little volume to have in the pipe case or on the music stand. The fact that these are melodies- jigs, walzes,"Scotch tunes", polkas and hornpipes- written by a piper for pipes means that they fit under the fingers well and at the same time provide excellent practice material because they are largely built on arpeggio leaps that are the building blocks of all British bagpipe music. But "The White House Hornpipe" is more than just a good technical workout book. Before long quite a few of the tunes will be lodged in the memory. And because they were ... composed on the pipes some of them do, after initial familiarity is made, seem to "play themselves" .... "The White House Hornpipe" is hand calligraphed throughout- and this makes it a very pleasant production and represents exceptional value." 

PRICE: GBP £5 (inc p&p) 

JOHNNY D'S HOME.
A book of twenty-four choice tunes by John Goodacre, the oldest known living Leicestershire smallpiper. Twenty-one of these are Leicestershire pipe tunes, three are Scottish tunes and most go well on other types of pipes. Six are on The Goodacre Brothers' CD 'Call for Yer Pipers Three'. 
 

PRICE: GBP £5.
 

I also supply a limited range of other pipe tune books.

THE MASTER PIPER

Contains all 40 tunes from the William Dixon manuscript of 1733, the earliest known collection of British piping music. Published by Matt Seattle, who has put a vast amount of research and thought into this essential book of 18th Century border pipe music. 
PRICE: GBP £18.50,
 

MORE POWER TO YOUR ELBOW

The ultimate guide to acquiring, playing, tuning and maintaining Scottish bellows-blown bagpipes, produced by the Lowland and Border Pipers’ Society.

This 106 page book is a treasure trove of information  and is illustrated with  numerous photographs and line drawings and is. It contains 50 tunes and comes complete with a CD-ROM so that, with a computer (PC or Mac), one can now observe Iain McInnes’ fingers playing tunes close up. There is a wealth of new tricks here for everyone not only for novices but also seasoned pipers. Although it is aimed at bellows-blown pipes, much of the information is equally applicable to mouth-blown Scottish smallpipes.

Topics covered are: acquiring a set of pipes; making a start; starting to play; introducing grace notes; methods and techniques; the principles of tuning; gracing;  the basics of notation; reeds and reed making; maintenance and repair; problem solving; playing pressure; history; resources; glossary.

PRICE GBP £25 +UK p&p £2.

SUGGESTED SESSION TUNE BOOK

A collection of the most popular tunes played in sessions of border pipers. Published by The Lowland and Border Pipers’ Society, this is a collection of 68 well-known melodies gleaned from Highland, Lowland and Border sources in a handy A5 format that has been produced to provide a common repertoire for smallpipers who enjoy playing together and with other instruments. (Guitar chords are included.)

PRICE GBP £7

SUGGESTED DUETS and HARMONIES

PRICE GBP £14

HANDBOOK FOR THE DOUBLE-PIPES by Steve Bliven
Teaching yourself to play these double pipes is an exciting challenge, but there is always lots we can learn from others. With this in mind Cornish piper Steve Bliven has contacted most players and compiled a very impressive loose-leaf HANDBOOK based on their collective suggestions, arrangements, discoveries. It is over 90 pages long, packed with helpful suggestions, articles on the history of double pipes and twenty four tunes and arrangements for these double pipes.

PRICE GBP £11.  <BACK

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