Links

Bagpipe Care and Maintenance
 
  Care of Wooden Instruments C & C Bagpipes
  Sealing Pipe Bags David Daye
  Pipe Bag Selection  
 
Working with Chanter Reeds
 
  Fixing Chanter Reeds David Daye
  Featherweight Pipes 1 David Daye
  Featherweight Pipes 2 David Daye
  Featherweight Pipes 3 David Daye
  Making Chanter Reeds: text files by Gordon Speirs  
  Choosing Cane For Reeds David Daye
 
Working with Drone Reeds
 
  Remedies for a Roaring Bass Drone David Daye
  Elevating Drone Reed Tongues Permanently David Daye
  Fixing Drone Reed Squealing David Daye
 
Bagpipe Playing Tips
 
  Sharp Stops With Ross Canister Bags The Bagpipe Place
  Finding the Correct Bag Size David Daye
  How to Tune Drones Jim MacGillivray
  Intermediate/advanced Tuning David Daye
  How to Strike In Your Pipe Chris Hamilton
  Fixer Exercises David Daye
  Piping Pain David Daye
  Preparing for Solo Competitions David Daye
 
Bapipe Humor
 
  The Pipe-Major's Nightmare 1 David Daye
  The Pipe-Major's Nightmare 2 David Daye
 
 
Preferred Suppliers of Piping and Drumming Supplies
 
  McGillivray Piping Partnerships  
  MacIsaac Kiltmakers  
  Mulligan & MacHendry's DrumsPlus.com  
  John Elliott Reeds  
  Reed Manufacturers  
 
Other Suppliers of Piping and Pipe Band Supplies
 
  The Tartan Thistle  
  British Shop  
  Rocky Mountain Highland Supply  
  John Higgins  
  Henderson Imports  
  Toneczar, Inc.  
 
Contacting other Pipe Bands
 
  Alliance of North American Pipe Band Associations  
  Pipe Bands at Universities  
 
Publications
 
  Piper and Drummer  
  Piping Times  
 
Scottish Clan and Family Associations
 
  Scottish Clans and Their Septs  
  Scottish Clan Associations, courtesy Clan MacCallum - Malcolm  
 
Recorded Pipe and Pipe Band Music
 
  Rampant Lion  
  Recordings of Specific Tunes  
 
Printed Pipe Music
 
  MacLeod Highland Supplies  
  Tartantown Ltd.  
  C&C Bagpipe Supply  
  HighlandBagpipe.com  
  Out-Of-Print Music from HighlandBagpipe.com  
  Bagpipe Tune Index  
 
Piping & Drumming Schools
 
  Balmoral School of Piping and Drumming  
  Milwaukee School of Pipes and Drums  
  Ontario School of Piping and Drumming  
  Other schools  
 
Highland Dance Sites
 
  About Highland Dancing  
  Federation of U.S. Highland Dancing Teachers and Adjudicators  
  The British Association of Teachers of Dancing  
   
 
Other Madison Area Scottish and Celtic Organizations
 
  Madison Scottish Country Dancers
(also has a nice collection of links to Scottish Web sites and Web sites about Madison)
 
  UW-Madison Scottish Highland Dancers:
Contact Sonya Melcher (melcher@poly.biochem.wisc.edu)
 
 

Celtic Cultural Center of Madison

 
  Celtic Music Association of Madison  
 

St. Andrew's Society of Madison

Anne Wellman
St. Andrew's Society
4506 Schofield Ave.
Madison, WI 53716
608-221-2717
 
 

UW-Madison Celtic Studies Program

 
 

 
 
Miscellaneous
 
  Playing Along With Bagpipes on Other Instruments  
  Bob Dunsire's Bagpipe Web Directory  
  The Bagpipe Museum  
  Atlanta Pipe Band's Explanation of Pipe Band Grades  
  Andrew Lenz's Bagpipe Journey  
  Lyon College; Lessons on Streaming Video  
 
DRUMMING INTERESTS
 
  Drumming.TK  
 
Snare Drumming
 
  Canadian Drumming Links  
  The Highland Drumming Index  
 
Tenor Drumming
 
  The Tyler Fry Web Site