‎STEWART, Pete.‎
‎Robin with the Bagpipe‎

‎Ashby parva, White House Tune Books N°6 2001 4° 21 x 29 beige paperback brochure 36 pp., 70 tunes The English Bagpipe and its Music ; Compiled by Pete STEWART; notes, bibliography; ‎

Reference : 153
ISBN : 0 90 7772 52 8

‎Pete Stewart's original groundbreaking work on the Bagpipe in England. Essential reading for all those interested in English bagpipe history. He has been playing traditional dance music for over forty years and has been piping for thirty of them. The fruits of his playing and researching English piping are contained in this long awaited collection. The book combines literary descriptions, pictorial and sculptural representations and an historical commentary with 70 tunes from across eight centuries, many unavailable in print elsewhere, to present a vivid picture of a more or less forgotten aspect of English musical life, as well as offering a unique repertoire to today’s players. This publication is an important contribution to the reclamation of piping traditions and should be in every piper’s instrument case. “Bagpipes were a feature of the English scene for many centuries and Pete Stewart has done a grand job of collecting, editing and playing the music of this neglected tradition.” (Roderick Cannon, author of ‘The Highland Bagpipe and its Music” and “A Bibliography of Bagpipe Music”) ; ‎