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| Bagpipes | |
| Andrew Lenz's Bagpipe Journey | Excellent reference site for all aspects of bagpiping. Useful to pipers of all levels. |
| Bagpipe Web Directory | Comprehensive list of all things bagpipe-related. Check out the Forum too. |
| Piping Centre | Centre of bagpiping excellence. Runs distance-learning and online courses etc. |
| The College of Piping, Scotland | Another centre of bagpiping excellence in the same city! Home of Piping Times. |
| ViperPiper | Has a large searchable database of bagpipe tunes in several formats. Good forum too. |
| Piper & Drummer | Home of that well known publication. Online articles and tunes in PDF and MP3 format. |
| Pipe Band Drumming | |
| Drumbeater | Pipe band drumming articles and information on the Sidedrum mailing list. |
| The Drummers' Nest | For Scottish Side, Tenor and Bass drumming method. |
| The Regimental Drummer | Contains some useful exercises and settings |
| Whistle, Flute etc. | |
| Virtual Session | Interactive tunes! (Whistle, flute, smallpipes, guitar etc...). Music can be printed. Practice a tune, grab a Guinness and join in - GREAT FUN! |
| Chaff & Fipple | Popular Whistle and Flute site, with forums. |
| The Session | Extremely useful, searchable, tune resource. Tunes are in ABC format. Also has a forum where tune variants are described and their history and origins are discussed. |
| Nigel Gatherer's Traditional Music Site | Excellent whistle tutorial with midi and notation examples. Also a good tune resource for whistle and other instruments. |
| The Wandering Whistler Music Archives | Lots of Traditional music can be found here. |
| Rob Greenway's Irish Flute Pages | For help with learning Irish Flute. |
| The Flow | For Flute information and tunes in ABC format. |
| West Coast Whistle Co. | Home of Elf Song Whistles. Beautiful handmade whistles at low prices. Including one with GHB fingering. I can't rave enough about these whistles! I own two of them. |
| Bodhrán | |
| How to Play the Bodhrán | Good site for Bodhrán beginners with sound examples. |
| Bodhrán Beginners' Guide | Explains the fundamentals of Bodhrán technique and instrument selection. |
| Music Workshops & Gatherings in Scotland | |
| Fèisean nan Gàidheal | Gateway site of the Fèis movement throughout Scotland. Events and tuition in all traditional 'Celtic' instruments. Strong emphasis on the Gaelic (Gàidhlig) music tradition. |
| Celtic Connections | Very large annual Celtic Music festival held in Glasgow each year. Workshops, performances by well known musicians of the 'Celtic' and other traditions. |
| Sessions & Clubs | Where to find regular sessions and music clubs in the Highlands and throughout Scotland. |
| Learning Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig) | |
| Air Splaoid (BBC Alba) | Friendly online course for beginners with sound, Flash animations etc. The easy way to learn Gaelic. |
| Beag air Bheag | Another friendly online course for absolute beginners with Flash or HTML options. |
Pipe Bands |
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| Haddington Pipe Band | An award-winning community pipe band from Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland. |
Useful Software |
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| FlexiMusic Audio Editor | Really
good value software for Windows, including Vista. Multi-track
composing, audio editing and mixing for adults - and for kids! |
| Audacity | Deceptively powerful (free) audio editor and recorder. An invaluable tool. |
Other |
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| The Kilt Sporran Company | Suppliers of unique quality Scottish dress products at reasonable prices. They stock handmade Scottish sporrans and other kilt accessories made using traditional methods. |
| Black Dog Mastering Studio | Offering CD Mastering, Mixing, Transferring and Restoration Services. You may upload or transfer your music files direct to their server, or send your cd to them through the mail. |
| Piano lessons
Online, Piano DVDs & Books |
Tammys Learn Jazz, Blues
piano lessons via DVD
& Piano Books |
| Hand Drum - Djembe
AfricanDrum |
Bali-treasures.com providing Djembes, African Drums and Handrums made in Bali, Indonesia. |