The Music

The playing of, the classical music of the Highland Bagpipe, originally a rich and varied oral form, was heavily influenced during the 20th century by the published scores of the Piobair-eachd Society.  These were edited in a highly inaccurate and doctrinaire way.  

The imposition of the resulting scores on major competitive events has seriously affected the way this music as heard in public today. But the power of the internet enables the original manuscripts and early printed sources to be viewed directly without being filtered through a corrupted interme-diate source.  The present site presents the source scores for many of the classic tunes along with a commentary and audio recordings illustrating a variety of possible interpretations.