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Music AvailableThe beautiful sound of pipes has drawn the attention of many good composers. Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote a suite for pipes and eventually became the head of the British Pipers Guild. Others who have composed music for pipes are : Imogen Holst, Michael Head, Elizabeth Poston, W. S. Lloyd-Webber and Betty Roe in Great Britain, Claude Arrieu and Claude Pascal in France, Tera Oyens in the Netherlands, Bernard Reichel and Curdin Janett in Switzerland, F. X. Frenzel in Austria and others. Works are still commissioned for various events. Recorder, krumhorn, organ and other instrumental as well as a wealth of vocal music from a variety of time periods is frequently suitable or has been arranged for pipes. They have been combined successfully with such folk instruments as a dulcimer, banjimer, guitar, psaltery, Celtic harp, hurdy-gurdy to name a few. Finding Out MoreWorkshops are offered from time to time to make pipes. Once you have made one you can become a member of the American Pipers Guild and join in its activities at a very low cost. Free open rehearsals are offered in Hartford, Connecticut every week. A newsletter, The Pipeline, comes out periodically which tells about pipers and their endeavors. For more information, see our Links page or contact us at bamboopipe@aol.com. |
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| Last update on 03/14/2006 | ||