Pipers: A Guide to the Players And Music of the Highland Bagpipe

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 176 pages
• Published by: Birlinn Publishers September 30, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1841584118
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1841584119
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 12.6 ounces

Book Description
This book is aimed at people outside the piping community who want to find out more about this awesome instrument without too much expenditure of time and money. It is a lively introductory guide to what pipers do and why, showing how "tradition," often thought of as a vague and anonymous process, is in fact created by a whole succession of brilliantly gifted individual teachers, players, and composers. The author uses many historical sources to explore the rich heritage of piping, an activity strongly rooted in Scotland's past. Pipers also focuses on the individual players themselves, with a wide range of interviews and anecdotes to provide a fresh account of this key musical cohort.

About The Author
William Donaldson is a Scottish social historian and piper, and the author of several books.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Pipers: A Guide to the Players and Music of the Highland Bagpipe (Paperback) I was looking forward to reading this book but was somewhat dissapointed. There is lots of interesting information but the author much too often for my taste, inserts his prejudices and bias' of others in the piping world's history, making fun of them and what they did, how they lived, what they wrote, how they played their music etc. It almost seemed as if the author was envious or resentful of their accomplishments. So much of this that it overshadowed the interesting parts. Too much of an agenda not enough substance. Comment | Permalink | (Report this)