Just a few ideas to get you started.....
More Power to your Elbow
A practical guide to acquiring, playing, tuning and maintaining Scottish bellows-blown bagpipes, together with a tutorial CD-ROM (featuring Iain MacInnes on Scottish Smallpipes) suitable for PC or Mac. Contains more than 50 tunes.
A4. 106 pages. Illustrated with photographs and line drawings. Ring wire bound (portrait) allowing it to lie open on table or music stand. Preface by Gordon Mooney. Introduction by Julian Goodacre.
As Julian says in the introduction: "This Manual will be of special benefit to the members of the Society who live overseas and are separated from makers and like-minded pipers by thousands of miles. I commend it not only to novices, but to seasoned pipers. There is a wealth of new tricks here for everyone".
This and other publications can be purchased direct from the:
Lowland and Border Pipers Society
Northumbrian Tune Books.....
The Northumbrian Pipers' Society have a selection of publications, available to members and non members, many of which are availbable from:
Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum
Bridge Street, Morpeth, Northumberland, NE61 1PJ
Contact Anne Moore
tel: 01670 500717
amoore@castlemorpeth.gov.uk
(Tourist Information Centre)
tel: 01670 500700
The Bagpipe Museum also stocks the very popular Northumbrian Smallpipes Tutor by US pipemaker John Liestman, who also sells copies direct through his website.