This tutor is designed for the beginner learning the wooden "simple-system" six-hole flute. Since the fingering on the tinwhistle is identical, this book is particularly suited for those who wish to learn the whistle now with the intention of later taking up the flute.

The basics and a selection of tunes for the tabor pipe. Made in USA

The tutor covers all aspects of playing the pipes from putting on the pipes to tuning the drones. Carefully selected exercises and tunes guide the beginner through the various stages of the blowing, tuning and playing the chanter.
There are also sections on:

Routine Care and Maintenance, Notes on Playing the Selected Pieces, Musical Notation, The Pitch of the Pipes, Drone Harmony, Changing Key and Drone Settings and Grace Notes.

Alto Whistles with polymer body, ABS whistle head. Tuneable. Key A

Drawing on many years' experience designing and manufacturing bodhráns, these instruments are the last word in tone, build and versatility. They offer superb quality with heavy-duty laminated shells, delivering unrivalled stability and durability. Handpicked, premium quality goatskin heads and the Waltons ultra-reliable tuning mechanism, our tuneable bodhrans provide the perfect combination of controllable volume, tonal flexibility and dynamic response to bring your playing to new musical heights. Complete with allen key and beater.

Available in 18" Green Craquelure

Cultures converge on this jammin’ collection of reggae beats from Africa, which celebrates Bob Marley’s 64th birthday and his lasting impact on African music.

African Reggae vividly illustrates how African artists have kept the spirit of roots reggae alive from Cape Town to Cape Verde. This collection includes tracks ranging from the hit “Magno Mako” by Ivoirian Ismael Isaac to the melting pot brew of Burkina Faso’s Bingui Jaa Jammy and from the Rastafarian-influenced sounds of Ghana’s Kwame Bediako to the mystical kora-laced incantations of Guinea Bissau’s Nino Galissa.

South Africa, a CD collection that celebrates the rich musical diversity of this unique country at the southern tip of Africa. With the soccer World Cup taking place for the first time on African soil from June 11 to July 11, international attention will be focused on South Africa and its postapartheid status as a democracy and economic
powerhouse.

Another unique collection of Highland bagipe music, featuring tunes ancient and modern - many of the older tunes are in print for the first time.

The new tunes include some which are literally just off the composer's pens, while old and out of print collections supply the balance. The composers range from the greats of yesteryear to today's bright new faces, who may well become the greats of tomorrow.

Compiled and edited by Bruce Campbell.

A4 paperback, 60 pages.

A mixture of traditional tunes from Scotland and Ireland, and twentieth century compositions, 31 of which are Allan's own.

The 3rd edition of Allan MacDonald's Moidart Collection, A Cheud Ceud (The First Hundred), comprised of one hundred tunes, including a piobaireachd. An audio CD of the tunes accompanies the book.

The first publication of Allan's very popular collection was in 1989. He has dispensed with dotted quavers and semi-quavers in the reels to reflect his own 'open' style of playing.

Allan MacDonald was raised in the small community of Glenuig, in a Gaelic-speaking area of the West Highlands. He began piping at an early age and pursued a competitive career which included winning the Inverness Clasp on two occasions. He was taught by P/M John MacKenzie and also by Bob Nicol of Ballater and Roddy MacDonald of South Uist.

After becoming ambivalent towards the competitive discipline of piping, he encouraged the introduction of alternative styles of playing Ceol Beag ('light music') from the 1970s onwards. In the classical genre of Ceol Mor (piobaireachd), he explored the extent to which modern styles of playing differed from those of the 18th century. In his M Litt thesis, completed at Edinburgh University's School of Scottish Studies, he studied the relationship between piobaireachd and Gaelic language rhythms in song, placing the tunes in their original socio-linguistic context.

A4 paperback, landscape format.

Uilleann piper John McSherry has been performing and recording with everybody from Donal Lunny to Clannad and The Corrs.

He is hailed as one of the finest exponents of the art of Irish uilleann piping in the world today, and his debut solo album Soma is a fiery blend of pipes, whistles, guitars, bouzoukis and fiddles. Mixing traditional tunes with John's own compositions, this album has surprises in store.

Coming from a family steeped in traditional music, John focused his energies on the pipes from an early age. By the time he reached fifteen he had two All Ireland Championship titles under his belt, and at the age of eighteen he was the youngest ever winner of the prestigious Oireachtas piping competition.

John has toured the world as both a solo performer and a member of several outstanding bands. He was a founding member of top trad band Lunasa, whose albums rocked the Irish music world. He also joined forces with his siblings in the trad/rock group Tamalin, whose debut album was Rhythm And Rhyme.

Collaborations followed with Donal Lunny's ground-breaking supergroup Coolfin (which included Sharon Shannon and Nollaig Casey), wooden flute master Michael McGoldrick (At First Light was voted Best Traditional Album of the year by the Irish American News), fiddle prodigy Donal O'Connor (Tripswitch album), Clannad, Sinead O'Connor, Nancy Griffiths, Shaun Davey, Dan Ar Braz and The Corrs.