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MB62 - TrickstersMB62 - Tricksters
A comedian, singer, composer, musician, linguist, actor, author and a favourite of Sean Connery and Billy Connolly’s, Norman MacLean is a living legend in the Gaelic world. Tricksters takes the reader on a rambunctious journey around Scotland with endearing but oddly-matched couple, Murdo and Rachel. Murdo is a semi-pro thespian struggling with an alcohol problem; Rachel is constantly on the brink of ending their relationship. And there’s the truly appalling television director, Sam, whose Machiavellian schemes are aided by a heavy-drinking Presbyterian heretic from Lewis. When all converge in the Tartan Pagoda Hotel, Uist, what could possibly go right? A hilarious page-turner, Tricksters blends the high style of John Lanchester and the low-life snappy dialogue of George V. Higgins and it’s beautifully translated for the Teuchters by the author.
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MB61 - Dearest DachaMB61 - Dearest Dacha
A comedian, singer, composer, musician, linguist, actor, author and a favourite of Sean Connery and Billy Connolly’s, Norman MacLean is a living legend in the Gaelic world. Based in the Uists in the Outer Hebrides, with side trips to Glasgow, Hamburg and Amsterdam, this dotty adventure embraces frustrated sex, drugs, eightsome reels and a memorable cast of oddball characters: three inept would-be criminals, a demented care-home resident, an ex-communicant of the Free Church of Scotland who moonlights as an enforcer, a pair of Russian weight-lifters who raise ostriches by day and mud-wrestle by night, and a formidable woman lawyer determined to cleanse the island of wrongdoing before HM The Queen arrives on her annual visit. Something akin to a mad Gaelic version of The Sopranos as directed by the Coen Brothers, this novella is a masterclass of understatement, pitch-perfect dialogue and confident narration.
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MB60 - In The Best of CompanyMB60 - In The Best of Company

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MB58 Die Große Schottische Hochlandpfeife - The Great Highland BagpipeMB58 Die Große Schottische Hochlandpfeife - The Great Highland Bagpipe

This book, by Dr. Christian Grosser, is the first in German to describe the music, function and history of Scotland’s national instrument. The book gives a lot of information and interesting detail about the tradition of the pipes. It is not a tutor book; it’s a companion for every German - speaking piper.
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MB55 The Highland Bagpipe - Music, History, TraditionMB55 The Highland Bagpipe - Music, History, Tradition

This new book of essays edited by Josh Dickson, head of Scottish Music at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, is a weighty additive to the main staple of piping textbooks. It comprises essays written by many renowned piping scholars including Simon McKerrell, Roderick Cannon and J. Decker Forrest.

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MB54 The Leper's Bell by Norman MacLean, Paperback

Norman MacLean is the renowned piper, comedian, crit and writer, star of stage, screen and radio. Read about his hilarious life on the road in Europe and North America. An autobiography not to be missed.

"How does a native Gaelic speaker write so well in English", is just one comment from the many who have enjoyed this book.
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MB54 The Leper's Bell by Norman MacLean, Paperback
B123 The Complete Pipers HandbookB123 The Complete Pipers Handbook

By P/M Brett Tidswell

The Complete Pipers Handbook is the most comprehensive guide to setting up and maintaining a bagpipe that has ever been written. Not only does it cover the basic elements and problem solving, but it goes further than any other publication to cover the refinement and balance of the instrument, performing, teaching principles, band set up, and much more. It is a must for the beginner through to the experienced piper. In fact anyone of any level who wants a more reliable, better sounding instrument. A full colour production comprising 68 pages of proven methods with descriptive photographs to guide every step. A magnificent, laminated, A4 size, magazine quality publication.
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MB52 Bagpipes - A National Collection of a National InstrumentMB52 Bagpipes - A National Collection of a National Instrument

By Hugh Cheape
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MB51 Masters of PipingMB51 Masters of Piping

Now available for the first time a book on our piping heroes of the past..... Patrick Og, GS, Bob Reid, Donald Mor, Calum Piobair, John Ban, Willie Gray, John MacColl, the list goes on and on. Gain fascinating insight into the lives and times of these giants of the piping world. Masters of Piping, written by Seumas MacNeill in his own elegant style.

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MB30 The Judge's CompanionMB30 The Judge's Companion

This book is the only one of its kind in world piping. Compiler and editor Robert Wallace has drawn on contributions from some of the best writers in the field to produce a book full of guidance, interest and entertainment. If you are a judge of piping or want to become one, a competing piper wanting to know what your adjudicator may be thinking, or keen to find out more about the mystery of solo piping competition, then this book has to be in your library.


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MB8 BBC Piobaireachd bookMB8 BBC Piobaireachd book
Seumas MacNeill - BBC Piobaireachd book

A complete guide to the classical music of the great Highland bagpipe by one of the best writers on the subject
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MB29 Scale of the Highland Bagpipe.MB29 Scale of the Highland Bagpipe.
Seumas MacNeill's "Scale of the Highland Bagpipe."

This pamphlet is the starting point for all those interested in or studying the physics of the bagpipe and its sound. The separate articles first appeared in the Piping Times but have been collated here for convenience.
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MB45 Piping Traditions of ArgyllMB45 Piping Traditions of Argyll

A worthy successor to 'Piping Traditions of the North of Scotland', a service to piping and pipers everywhere, this book records a vital part of our heritage which might otherwise have been lost to mists and memory.
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MB3 Pekaar Encyclopedia of tunesMB3 Pekaar Encyclopedia of tunes

Pekaar Encyclopedia of tunes.
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MB49 When Piping Was StrongMB49 When Piping Was Strong

When Piping was Strong is an unprecedented history of Gaelic Scotland's most resilient of musical treasures: the piping tradition of the southern Outer Hebrides.
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MB23 The Book of the BagpipeMB23 The Book of the Bagpipe
The Book of the Bagpipe by Hugh Cheape

A layman's guide to every aspect of the instrument and its music
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MB26 Highland Bagpipe Makers - Second EditionMB26 Highland Bagpipe Makers - Second Edition

The Second Edition of Highland Bagpipe makers by Jeannie Campbell

Interested in researching your pipes?

This book has to be the starting point
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2. PB32 - Joseph MacDonald's Compleat Theory
3. RS204 William M. MacDonald Piobaireachd Vol.5
CM31 College Criticism SheetsCM31 College Criticism Sheets
Running a piping contest? The College recommends that crit. sheets be issued by competition promoters for all events, except perhaps the most senior. This pack covers all contests from Piobaireachd to Light Music and contains advice for judges on how they should be used. Once purchased they can be phototcopied for unlimited use.
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MB46 A Professional Piper in Peace and War - John Wilson's AutobiographyMB46 A Professional Piper in Peace and War - John Wilson's Autobiography

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MB47 Old and New World Highland BagpipingMB47 Old and New World Highland Bagpiping

This stimulating and controversial book provides a comprehensive account of pipers and piping in both Highland Scotland and Gaelic Cape Breton. The result of over thirty years' oral fieldwork among the last of the Gaels in Cape Breton, as well as an exhaustive research of Scottish archival sources, it traces the shift from traditional to modernism in the world through detailed genealogies and biographies, focusing on how the social function of the Scottish piper changed and step-dance piping progreeively disappeared.

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