Northumbrian Pipers Society

Links

"The Northumbrian Smallpipes Tutor", reedmaking, maintenance and much more at http://www.liestman.com/

"I have decided to 'set my book free', so you can now download The Northumbrian Smallpipes Tutor from my website at [1]www.liestman.com for free. I am no longer offering the book in a printed and bound version for sale, although there are a few copies in England to be bought if you desire. Enjoy!" John Liestman.

Piping around the world

Alternative pipers of North America

http://theotherpipers.org/index/

APNA serves as a clearinghouse and source of information for and about bagpipers and bagpipes in North America. We are particularly focused on reaching those pipers playing other than Great Highland Bagpipes, both bellows and mouth blown, AND pipers who are interested in using the GHB in ways that do not conform to current solo and band playing standards.

Lowland and Border Piping Society

The home on the web for all things related to Scottish and Border Bellows-Piping.

http://lbps.net/lbps/

Music

Tune storing

http://soundcloud.com/

Capture a voice, moment or music in seconds, or upload audio you've already created.

The recording remains under the control of the originator and, even better, it looks to be possible to restrict access to the recordings making them available only to those internet users who are given the specific URL of the recording.

Northumbrian Minstrelsy

A Collection of the Ballads, Melodies and Small-Pipe tunes of Northumbria, Edited by J. Collingwood Bruce and John Stokoe 1882

http://ia600200.us.archive.org/12/items/ACollectionOfTheBalladsMelodiesAndSmall-pipeTunesOfNorthumbria/NorthumbrianBallads.pdf

and here are the tunes from it searchable and printable by tune as dots or abc

http://music.gordfisch.net/montrealsession/minstrelsy.html

Folk Archive Resource North East All sorts of stuff

http://www.asaplive.com/archive/index.asp

Derek Hobbs' tunes for pipers arranged as duets, and many other tune books, are available at

http://www.rossleighmusic.co.uk/piperscompanion.html

A collection of tunes

http://www.birchmore.info/html/northumbria.html

Searchable list of tunes

http://www.thesession.org/index.php

James Scott Skinner, tunes and more

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/scottskinner/index.shtml

Radio FARNE features collections of selected items from the FARNE archive based around a particular theme. Some are collections of recordings or concerts, others are full interviews. Hear Northumbrian smallpipes, moothies, fiddles and more from live 20th Century reecordings

http://www.folknortheast.com/radio-farne/radio-farne/

Playford

Mainly Playford, about 200 tunes in dots

http://www.eastleighfolkdance.org/MainlyPlayford.pdf

A whole load of stuff, including, it says, some of Playford, in Noteworthy format

http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/nwc_tunebook/

for which you will need Noteworthy, there's a free version for reading stuff. Windows PCs only I think.

http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/

A load of fiddle tunes in abc format

http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/FCfiles.html

Irish and Swedish tunes in ABC

http://www.norbeck.nu/abc/

An abc converter

http://www.folkinfo.org/songs/abcconvert.php

and another for Macs

http://www.barfly.dial.pipex.com/

Some Scottish collections as free pdfs

http://www.heallan.com/freedownloads.asp

The Grand catalogue of Conrad Bladey's Beuk of Newcassel songs

A bit hard to navigate, but has a lot of lyrics, and hidden away some ABC notation for many of the tunes

http://mysite.verizon.net/cbladey/sang/alsang.html

Folk Tune Finder

More or less what it says on the tin, put in the first few notes and it will try to match them

http://www.folktunefinder.com/

Links to a world of traditional music

http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/traditional-music/

Tune Manuscripts List

This list is based on the one in the Hardcore English tune book published by the EFDSS. It represented, in April 2007, the majority of the manuscripts that were known to the English tune playing community

http://folkopedia.efdss.org/Tune_Manuscripts_List

Stacks of stuff to while away a few wet afternoons

http://www.mudcat.org/

Discographies

A fairly extensive discography of Northumbrian pipes 1928-1988

http://www.nspipes.co.uk/nsp/ww7bdisc.htm

Historical stuff

For those interested in earlier, 1500-1800, music

C16th Ballads

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ballads/

Ravenscroft 1609 on-

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ravenscroft/

http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/pcroom.htm

includes

Thompsons Compleat collection of 200 country dances 1751-57

Includes a couple of Rants, No.s 30 and 183, and Because I was a Bonny Lad (sic) No. 169

http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/pcroom/ThompsonsVol1.pdf

volumes II, III & IV covering 1758-80, include few others we still know

http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/pcroom/thompsonsvol2.pdf

http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/pcroom/thompsonsvol3.pdf

http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/pcroom/ThompsonsVol4.pdf

Manuscripts C17th to C20th

http://www.asaplive.com/archive/browse_by_collection.asp

Kohler's Violin Repository, a hard to find but much used source of tunes for
fiddlers in this area in the C19. It was sold in weekly or monthly instalments and
then copies were passed from hand to hand. The editor possibly knew James Hill, certainly he lived in N. Shields for many years.

http://imslp.org/imglnks/usimg/d/db/IMSLP106889-PMLP217734-
koehlersviolinrepository_1.pdf

http://imslp.org/imglnks/usimg/9/96/IMSLP106890-PMLP217734-
koehlersviolinrepository_2.pdf

http://imslp.org/imglnks/usimg/0/02/IMSLP106891-PMLP217734-
koehlersviolinrepository_3.pdf

Collections various

http://www.scotmus.com/music/index.html

A letter to his Grace the Duke of Northumberland on the ancient Northumbrian Music, its collection and preservation, by Thomas Doubleday

http://www.archive.org/details/alettertodukeno00doubgoog

John Peacock

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Peacock_(piper)

Robert Reid

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Reid_(pipemaker)

The Compleat Tutor for the Pastoral or New Bagpipe

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/geoghegan.pdf

and much more besides on Ross Anderson's excellent resource for

"the evolution of folk music in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This was a period of rapid change; the Scots, Irish and Northumbrian traditions developed into their current form, as did our three countries' pipes and many other instruments."

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/music/index.html

A New, Improved, and Authentic Life of James Allan: The Celebrated Northumberland Piper 1828

http://www.archive.org/details/anewimprovedand00cruigoog

The Rook Manuscript

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/rook/

Miscellaneous

Putting yourself on the internet.

http://soundcloud.com/

For making uncompressed files available, setting up a free Dropbox account and using its public folder is probably as good a solution as any.

Download it here http://www.dropbox.com

A variety of Pipers piping

http://wn.com/Northumbrian_smallpipes