Pipes - Scottish Smallpipes - Intermediate 6.30pm

This class will focus on the basic repertoire learned in the beginners’ class. We will look at the finer points of technique and phrasing and also introduce some more advanced jigs, and reels etc, particularly tunes that are commonly played at sessions. We will also explore the use of harmonies to enhance tunes.

Click on the picture below to see a short video of our 2 smallpipe classes rehearsing for the stramash in March 2008

The Lowland and Borders Smallpipes Society has just refurbished a number of sets of bellows blown smallpipes in the key of A which now have new bags, chanters and reeds.

These pipes are a great improvement on the “mark one” practice pipes from the LBPS and are available to Scots Music Group students to hire. The cost of hire is £10.00 per month and a condition of hire is that users should become members of LBPS at a sub of £12.00 per annum due on 1st April. The cost of a set of Scottish smallpipes, even second-hand, is several hundred pounds The aim of this hire scheme is therefore to enable people to try them out before investing in a new set of bellows pipes.

Please contact Jim Buchan for more information

tutor: Clare Miller

Clare is a highly qualified tutor and an experienced performer having played with Grampian Police Pipe Band for several years. In 2003, Clare received her LCM Honours certificate in Scottish Music Studies and continued her success in 2005, when she became the first piper to pass the London College of ...

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