Peebles
EH45 8LQ
Scotland
High Quality Scottish Smallpipes, English and other bagpipes from one of Britain's most innovative makers
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This bagpipe was commissioned by members of the Danish group Suleskaer. They wanted me to develop a pipe suitable for Danish music, based on illustrations in the book 'Sackpipan i Nordan', which contains a chapter on the Danish pipes. Throughout Northern Europe there are many depictions from the sixteenth century of mouth-blown bagpipes with two drones of equal length. These have been the inspiration for design. The drones have separate stocks and are tuned in unison to the chanter's bottom G. The chanter has a wide cylindrical bore with a large reed, and both F and F sharp at the top can be fingered. It plays in the same octave as the G Leicestershire Smallpipe chanter, but the wide bore gives it surprising volume and a punchy sound. |
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Several sets of these pipes are used by Jens Romme, 'The Danish Bagpiper', to teach a group of children in a Danish primary school. He also uses them to perform a large solo repertoire of Danish music. | |