College of Piping Volume 2 Book with DVD (Maintenance & History)
Valuable information at an affordable price! Volume 2 of the popular College of Piping instructional series focuses on understanding and maintaining your bagpipes. The 75-page reference book contains information on pipe chanters, drone and chanter reeds, tuning, making adjustments, and general maintenance of the bagpipe. It offers playing advice for novices, and also includes helpful hints for good posture and marching. The nearly hour-long DVD is a corresponding instructional presentation by Robert Wallace, College of Piping principal, which offers easy-to-follow demonstrations of techniques. This is a great resource you can return to again and again.
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
