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What Are Your Kids Going To Be Doing This Summer?

Mom and Dad, Give your kids the life-long gift of music this summer by enrolling them in bagpipe lessons. Want to know the best part? Lessons are FREE!  You could even learn right alongside them.  Contact us for details.

 

 

Thanks fans for a great St. Patrick's Day 2008!

ONLINE BAGPIPE TUTOR

Purchasing Used Bagpipes

Finding an inexpensive set of used bagpipes is possible.  Because there are so many other people in the world also looking means that you have must leave no stone unturned in your quest.

For the sake of brevity, I am going to assume you would recognize a quality set of pipes if you saw them in person. 

Here are places I like to look for bagpipes.

  • Antique Stores and Antique Malls

  • Estate Sales

  • Pawn Shops

  • Flea Markets

  • Garage Sales

Usually when I walk into an Antique store or pawn shop, they ask "May I help you find something?"  I always reply with a smile "I'm looking for a set of bagpipes."  99% of the time they'll say that they've never seen a set in their store.  But if you're diligent in your search (leaving no antique store uncalled) you just may find a set.

Here are places I like to look for bagpipes online

Also, you can contact representatives from pipe bands near you.

Tutor Contents

Tutor Contents

  1. Choosing a Practice Chanter
  2. Care and Feeding of the Practice Chanter
  3. Holding the Practice Chanter
  4. The Scale
  5. Music Notation 1
  6. A Simple Tune
  7. High G Grace Note
  8. Finding Used Bagpipes
  9. Archaic Note Nomenclature
  10. Tuning Your Bagpipes
  11. SM-90 Drone Reed Tidbits
  12. Kilts & Tartan Made Easy - Nicholas J. Fiddes (pdf)
  13. Jacket Modifications (pdf)
  14. Playing with the Band

Rehearsals are 2:30 PM Sundays at 805 FM 2094 (a.k.a. Marina Bay Drive)
Kemah, TX 77565

Brian Berlin, Pipe Major
(281) 535-2626 h
(713) 562-8250 c
berlin (at) bagpipebrothers.com

 

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Protect Your Hearing

Clear Lake Pipe Band strongly encourages all pipers and drummers to protect their hearing by using ear plugs.

 

 

Bagpipe Quotes

The best things written about the bagpipe are written on five lines of the great staff - Pipe Major Donald MacLeod, MBE