- Julian Goodacre who doesn't know it but he inspired this site after I promised to e-mail most of these files to him but instead accidentally erased them prompting me to re-scan and finally put them all together in this collection. Julian is a master builder, performer and bagpipe buff with a great site.
- the York Waits, a chance meeting on church street of a legend in piping, Mr. James Merryweather (only I didn't know it at the time) who, at one time, I had also promised to share these files with.
- The Bagpipe Society links and information on membership
- Piffaro the Renaissance Wind Ensemble is easily one of the best early music groups performing in the world. I'm so glad to finally find a group that puts as much into the music of the peasantry as it does the courtly music. And what great piping!
- Michael MacHarg makes just about every set of pipes shown on this site. If you are interested in playing these historic instruments rather than just looking at them, give his site a visit!
- John Tose's Welsh Bagpipes where there is a history as well as examples of the 3 styles of Welsh pipes that John re-creates.
- Prydein. It's celtic-rock and it's what started this whole thing in the first place.
- These may be random, but in searching for pipes on the internet one day I chanced across these two, completely different music groups, both of whom play medieval and renaissance period bagpipes. I guarantee that In Extremo and Corvus Corax are not what you would expect.
- North Hero Piper's Gathering held every year in North Hero, Vermont, U.S.A. People from all over the world congregate at the Town Hall on August 25th and the piping doesn't stop!
- Fête de la Vielle et Cornemuse held every year in Sharon, Vermont, U.S.A. This is a great place to see most of the pipes featured in my pages!
- This is the first page I've ever seen that has a similar goal as mine, except I believe a lot more work had to go into Jean-Luc Matte's Iconographie de la cornemuse en France. He travelled through all of France capturing images of bagpipes in Churches, in architecture both inside and out and published them on his pages. Less work for me to do! Thanks Jean-Luc. P.S. Check out his links (liens) page, it's worth it!
- Zephyrus, a band featuring Blowzabella's own Jon Swayne.
- Musica Antiqua at Iowa State University has put together a great links page.
- Alan's Wacky World of Bagpipes has many images on his pages. I figured it would be easier to link to him than to steal his pictures ;-)
- Universe of Bagpipes by Oliver Seeler actually does have some pictures which I borrowed. A great resource and a great complement to the paintings and ethcings page because his page lets you see and hear actual bagpipes from over 30 different countries where here you can see only representations of pipes through the ages.
- Confused Artists and Odd Pipes is also a part of Oliver's site but it is so amusing you may want to jump directly there.
- Webb Fine Stone Miniatures is a new site which I've found through a visitor of my site. This family does some great work and has a fantastic catalog of pieces of art that used to be available only through photographs (they even have a really cool two drone bagpiper).
- Richard York's page is a great place to find out all sorts of things about the bagpipe, especially the elusive 2 Chanter English bagpipe.
- Spielleut is a group that is basically doing what you see in all the Dutch images on the site (except for the vomit I think) and they actually have the tunes they play on their site (if only I could figure out how to get a CD)!
- And if you liked that one you'll also like Madlot, another group which is reviving the music and culture of the Dutch renaissance.
- Chnutz vom Hopfen's Page of medieval dance images has a fair number of pictures including bagpipes. It is offered in both German and English.
- Jazzmosis is a Jazz group in which I am now working. We even do a Jon Swayne tune set in a swing style.