Bagpipers players weddings, parties, funerals or memorial services
Add the magnificent sound of a bagpipe to your special wedding day with a professional Bagpipe Player. Demo loaner video available.

Imagine the magic, majesty, and surprise a beautifully played bagpipe will bring to your event. I have nearly 30 years of experience providing just that - beautifully played bagpipes. To see for yourself, please call and request a demo video of me playing at 2 weddings. I have decades of experience satisfying customers at weddings, funerals, golf events, parties, parades, etc. I have music and experience tuning for and playing duets with church pipe organs and other instruments. I have successfully competed at many highland games as a soloist and band piper. I've played in good bands such as the Dallas pipe band and Grandfather Mountain pipe band. I can entertain with Highland pipes and small (fireside) pipes. I have taught students that have become excellent pipers. My grandfather played the pipes and I have had great teachers such as Seumas MacNeil and Sandy Jones. I've also taught my son to play and we've played harmony together at many engagements. I look forward to bringing the majesty and magic of beautifully played pipe music to your event.

Everyone who saw the movie "Braveheart" will remember bagpipes at the wedding of William Wallace and his beautiful bride. More recently, you may remember the highland bagpipes at Madonna's wedding (and also more recently at Ashley Judd's) in Scotland at Skibo Castle in Dornoch.

The bagpipe is a musically complex instrument that has evolved over several millennia. An ancestor to the highland bagpipes is even mentioned in the Old Testament (Daniel 3:5), being played in a processional. When you hear the sound of the highland bagpipes, you are actually listening to four musical reeds. A double tongued reed in the chanter provides the musical melody when the piper fingers the notes. The bass and two tenor drones (on the piper's shoulder) each contain a single tongued reed. Keeping four reeds in tune with one another takes a good ear, well maintained pipes, knowledge of reed adaptation, and, of course, lots of experience.

Pipes work wonderfully for outdoor weddings, as no sound system is needed. Indoors, the pipes can be played even in small chapels, if the piper has a set of quiet reeds. A large cathedral may require louder reeds, or even multiple pipers, if the space is very large. A second piper can also play harmony against the melody of the first piper. Another native instrument to the highland bagpipes is the Scottish snare drum. A well played Scottish snare drum can make the music more interesting and rhythmic.

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