The Highlands of Scotland provided an ideal backdrop for the development of traditional Scottish Bagpipe music as heard around the globe today. For ages, the bagpipes have been known in every corner of the world. However, it is the Great Highland Bagpipe that has raised an awareness of the instrument for many, with a sound as unique as the region where it was developed.

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Traditionally, the Great Highland Bagpipe was played by an individual  performer rather than in a pipe band setting as it is often heard today.

Traditionally taught orally using cantaireachd or “chanted music”, piobaireachd was handed down through the generations with teacher singing to student to accurately reflect the unforgiving nuances of the music. Unlike other instruments, where volume control can be used to create dynamics, this is not possible with the sustained tones characteristic of the Bagpipe. Instead, this instrument uses carefully crafted combinations of  gracenotes to produce dynamics, where the minute timing of theme notes and gracings alike is critical to maintaining the musical flow.

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In addition to the familiar marches, jigs, strathspeys and reels, there is a traditional music form known as Piobaireachd, which you hear in the background now.

Pronounced “pea-broch”, this classical music is developed specifically for the highland bagpipes and is considered by many to be the pinacle of the pipers art.

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