This book was first produced shortly before Donald died in 1988. Languishing out of print, it surfaced in 2021 following contact between Piping Press editor Robert Wallace and Donald’s daughter Sheona. Sheona agreed that it should be offered to the piping public once more at nominal cost, the aim being to preserve her father’s musical legacy. Donald Morrison was the complete piper a fine teacher, composer and soloist. He won the Gold Medal, the Bratach Gorm and many other top awards. He toured extensively teaching and judging. Many of the tunes in this book are dedicated to those who helped him on his travels.
Please note this is a digital download book set for tablet computer such as the iPad. The book, in Donald’s own hand, runs to more than 60 pages and stories of some of the tunes compiled by the composer, are included.
The book is offered as a service to pipers and at a nominal cost. Please note this is a digital download book set in landscape format for tablet computer. Cost: £4; Code DMB; PayPal order and payment to pipngpress@gmail.com and a copy will be sent to your email address.
This book was compiled and edited by Captain John Campbell, Kilberry, and his more famous son Archibald. Published in 1909, the year of Campbell senior’s death, the book is a compendium of old Gaelic airs and song tunes. Not piobaireachd but not the rigid slow march either.
There are 43 tunes each with an historical note and, as one would expect with a Kilberry production, an erudite Introduction viz: ‘The settings are the best that the editors have heard, or in the airs which they have adapted, the best that they could make. Where a song has no second part they have added what they consider an appropriate variation. Otherwise they have only diverged from the air as they have heard it sung when forced to do so by the exigencies of the pipe scale.’
Please note this is a digital download book set in landscape format for tablet computer. Cost: £4; Code: KCB; PayPal order and payment to pipingpress@gmail.com and a copy will be sent to your email address.
This is a new digital, repeat digital, book by double Gold Medallist Niall Matheson. It has more than 50 tunes covering every genre of pipe music from ceòl mòr to jigs and reels. The composer’s works have already met with considerable acclaim. They are steeped in Highland character and lore, truly traditional but also modern. The book takes its name from Fyrish, a small hill monument behind Alness in Easter Ross pictured on the front cover.
The book has a page on the stories behind the titles of the tunes and also two full pages of very interesting photos of Niall covering his family and piping career. All tunes are perfectly laid out by expert designer Colin Melville in clear computer-based notation.
Of his work, Niall writes: ‘The tunes in this collection span the entirety of my piping career and represent many of my fondest memories over that time. They are mostly written in a traditional style, but I have always enjoyed and encouraged the development of piping from one generation to the next and.’ The book fits neatly onto all tablet devices.
Please note this is a digital download book set in portrait format for tablet computer. Cost: £12; Code: FC; PayPal order and payment to pipingpress@gmail.com and a copy will be sent to your email address.
First published in 1973, this outstanding collection is re-issued here in digital format with kind permission of the late Pipe Major’s family. The book runs to more than 50 pages. It is offered at a nominal price to cover overheads. It contains outstanding melodies such as the 6/8s Tug Argan Gap and MacNeills of Ugadale, the Wedding Waltz, Neuve Chappelle, Joe McGann’s Fiddle, the Saffron Kilt, He-Ro-Hirum and many others. Please note this is a digital download book set for tablet computer such as the iPad.
The book, long since out of print, is offered as a service to pipers and at a nominal cost. Please note this is a digital download book set in landscape format for tablet computer. Cost: £4; Code: JMB; PayPal order and payment to pipingpress@gmail.com.
This is a digital, repeat digital, book which means you download it to your computer or tablet. This book has some very good music. It is by Donald Sutherland, a native of Rogart, Sutherland. It has been out of print for many years and is reproduced here as a service to followers of www.pipingpress.com. Tunes include Mary Horne, Kenny MacDonald’s Jig, Captain Lachlan MacPhail of Tiree and many other less well-known, but quality, compositions. The book is sized for use in landscape orientation on an IPad or tablet computer.
The book, long since out of print, is offered as a service to pipers and at a nominal cost. Please note this is a digital download book set in landscape format for tablet computer. Cost: £4; Code: DSB; PayPal order and payment to pipingpress@gmail.com and a copy will be sent to your email address.
This is a dowloadable copy of the 1910 work transliterated from the Gesto Canntaireachd by P/M William MacLean, Kilcreggan. He has taken the canntaireachd and interpreted it in such a way as to provide us with scores of tunes in settings that are eminently playable by today’s pipers. There is a fulsome introduction and you can read more about the pipe major here. This volume is offered as a pipingpress.com service and is taken from a copy of the original work in the possession of editor Robert Wallace. Roderick Cannon: ‘Niel MacLeod was the laird of Gesto, which is about six miles from Dunvegan in the Isle of Skye. He was born about 1766/8, and succeeded to the land and title in 1787. He served in the Army from 1793, becoming a Lieutenant in the 42nd Regiment, and finally a Captain when he left the Regiment in 1797. lain Dubh MacCrimmon is thought to have been born in the early 1730s and lived until 1822. In 1828, Niel Macleod published this book containing 20 tunes in canntaireachd ‘as verbally taught by the McCrummen pipers … to their apprentices’, taken, as he says, from John Mccrimmon. A recent discovery is a short manuscript written by Macleod of Gesto, of historical notes on the 20 tunes in the present work, now in the National Library, M.us.D.s.138.’
Please note this is a digital download book set in portrait format for tablet computer. Cost: £4; Code: GC; PayPal order and payment to pipingpress@gmail.com and a copy will be sent to your email address.
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