Piping Centre Volume 2 Book (Bagpipe Maintenance)

Invaluable information at an affordable price! Volume 2 of the popular Piping Centre Book (formerly known as the College of Piping) instructional series focuses on understanding and maintaining bagpipes.  The book contains information on selecting pipes, pipe chanters, reeds, making adjustments, and general maintenance of the bagpipe. It also includes some advice on good posture and marching. This book is a great informational resource for learning how the bagpipe is out together and maintenance that is required along the way.

 

Contents of the College of Piping Volume 2 Book:

 

Chapter 1: The Bagpipe

Chapter 2: The Pipe Bag and Blowpipe

Chapter 3: The Drones

Chapter 4: The Pipe Chanter

Chapter 5: Choosing a Bagpipe
Chapter 6: Learning to Blow

Chapter 7: Maintaining Bags and Valves

Chapter 8: Dealing with Drone Reeds

Chapter 9: Chanters and Reeds

Chapter10: Looking the Part

 

Review: This is the book for pipers who are about to buy bagpipes or who just purchased pipes! The book offers a great foundation for understanding the parts of a bagpipe and how to care for them.  It has very nice information on tying in a hide bag and working with cane and synthetic drone reeds, things pipers should know.  This is the kind of information all novice pipers need and most struggle to find.  The intimidation many pipers feel at the prospect of tying in a pipe bag, manipulating a pipe chanter reed, blowing the pipes, and tuning the drones will be eased after viewing this instructional manual.