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Most Recent Updates: December 25, 2011 For the convenience of our new and returning visitors we've added this fast-loading initial page with links to several much-visited locations within the Universe of Bagpipes web site. This site contains information in text, pictures and sound about dozens of different kinds of bagpipes and their histories, makers and players from many countries and regions - over 200 megabytes of bagpipe material including over 1,000 graphics on over 700 separate pages. Visit our Catalog for a short list, along with extensive descriptions, of what we think are among the very best piping products in their respective catagories, including practice chanter outfits and bagpipes by J. Dunbar Ltd., Blackwood bagpipes by Dunbar, McCallum, Naill and others, upgraded Canadian "Kitchen Pipes," a fabulous "convertible" Scottish Smallpipe by John Walsh, a affordable and available Border Pipe, synthetic GHB chanter reeds by Clanrye (again available!), teaching videos & a tutorial by Jim McGillivray, the terrific John Cairns "Bagpipe Solutions" tutorial system ( including the just-released Volume 7) and electronic chanters & electronic bagpipes by Fagerstrom and Ross (including the spectacular Fagerstrom "Technopipes"). Enter our First Annual Bagpipe Photography Contest for a chance to win some great prizes while sharing your favorite piping photos. Free, fun, and open to all. Ongoing until at least November 24, 2011. (Update: Contest is now closed and judging is in progress, with winners to be announced after Christmas.) New! ~ A series of "White Papers" about the state of bagpipe making and marketing, financial aspects of piping (coming soon) and related matters, expressed without regard to whose toes are trod upon... Free shipping for active duty fire, law enforcement and military personnel: See the top of the Catalog Page for details. New visitors are urged to go to the Front Page, which contains links to all the main sections of the site as well as to individual pages for thirty different kinds of bagpipes. If you're thinking of Learning to Play the Great Highland Bagpipe, we provide extensive information, advice, tips etc., as well as the fine J. Dunbar Ltd. practice chanter outfits. Our essay on Bagpipe Tuning, posted in the interests of public safety and sanity, has become a much-visited resource. We recommend this to all fledgling pipers, and to non-piping musicians trying to understand this mysterious instrument. New! ~ With some mixed feelings we've started a Universe of Bagpipes page on Facebook. We're not altogether sure in what direction this is headed, but for the moment we're going to put a few things there that aren't here on this Web site. Sean Folsom ~ Frans Hattink ~ Guido Iannetta |