Happy International Bagpipe Day everybody!

I’m sad to say this attempted pipebag for my hummelchen didn’t work very well (as it made them unplayable!), though I still think the concept was sound.

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“14°, feels like 10°” says the weather app. Clearly the sensible thing to do is to walk to the park with English #borderpipes, #flemishpipes and #melodeon to meet some friends and play a few tunes… at least I’m taking a thermos of tea!

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I'm going to post some of my tune sets on my website. The dots for this set of 3/2s were requested at the session last Wednesday so it's as good as any to start with. https://bagpie.net/wee-totum-fogg-set/

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Ma setting o 'Woo'd A Married An A', played in A tae better match the sang melody (rather than the usual Highland pipe settin in G). Read a aboot it here - https://bagpie.net/auld-tunes-wood-an-married-an-a/

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The Reel of Stumpie, Buttered Peas, The Highland Wedding, Wap and Row, Pwt ar y Bys, Jack's be the Daddy On't… just some of the names connected to this auld tune. First appearing in print in the 1740s, versions of this tune became popular in Scotland, Ireland, Wales, England and even Italy

Read more about the tune and find the notation on my website - https://bagpie.net/auld-tunes-stumpie/

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Here's my setting of Maggie Lauder, certainly an auld tune as it seems to have first appeared, as far as I know, sometime in the 1600s.

You can find the notation and more over on my website - https://bagpie.net/auld-tunes-maggie-lauder/

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Here’s the YouTube link to the Jack Lattin tune for those of you who get yer videos over there - https://youtu.be/iO139ThaKh0

You can find the dots here - https://bagpie.net/auld-tunes-jack-lattin/

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Time for another auld tune. Jack Lattin was once popular all across these islands. Composed in Ireland sometime in the early 1700s it quickly spread across the Irish Sea and appears in many Scots music collections of the 18th century.

Read more about this tune and find the notation on my website - https://bagpie.net/auld-tunes-jack-lattin/

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And now the last of my 40 settings from the manuscript. I enjoyed creating pipe friendly settings, I can't say I enjoyed recording them. I don't think recording tunes that I am unfamiliar with does the tunes or my piping justice.

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A quick play through of my setting of Unfortunate Jock from The Drummond Castle Manuscript, Book 1, dated 1737.

View all my settings here - https://bagpie.net/drummond-book-one/

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