# List of bagpipe makers

This is a list of bagpipe makers. It covers both family-based and commercial outfits from the 17th century to the present era. In the 1950s, the bagpipe traditions of Europe were revived. The market is increasing in size as the popularity of the instrument is increasing, and the list of bagpipe makers is rising.

## British Isles pipes
### Great Highland Bagpipes/Great Irish Warpipes

| Firm | Name | Location | Apprenticed | Retired | Notes |
| Unknown | James Ramsay Oswald | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | 1941 | 2003 | One of only ten bagpipe makers in Australia. |
| Dunbar Bagpipe Maker Ltd. | Rick Pettigrew, Barry Dunbar, Jacquie Dunbar | St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada | | | Founded by Jack Dunbar of Glasgow in 1985 |
| John Walsh Bagpipes Ltd. | John Walsh, Tom MacMillan | Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada | | | |
| The Burley Bagpipes Company | Graham Burley | Naramata, British Columbia, Canada | | | |
| Lee & Sons Bagpipes | Jack Lee, Andrew Lee | Surrey, British Columbia, Canada | | | |
| Macbeth and Co. Bagpipes | Martin MacBeth | Brisbane, Australia | 1990s | | Began in Brisbane 2010? |
| Fisher Bagpipes | Wayne Fisher | Sarnia, Ontario, Canada | | | Self-taught pipemaker. One of only a handful of bagpipe makers in Canada. |
| American Bagpipe Makers Inc. | Charles E. Kron | Dobbs Ferry, New York, US | 1987? | | |
| Rolf of Sweden | Rolf Littorin | Sweden | 1990s | | Custom made bagpipes: Great Highland Bagpipes, Smallpipes, Practice Chanters. Self-taught pipe maker. |
| William Sinclair and Son | William M. Sinclair | Edinburgh, Scotland | 1926 | | |
| MacLellan Bagpipes | Roddy MacLellan | Zebulon, North Carolina, US | 1988 | | Zebulon location began operations in 2023. The only business in North America to make, sell, and teach how to play bagpipes. |
| McCallum Bagpipes Ltd. | | Kilmarnock, Scotland | | | |
| O'Mahony Warpipes | James O'Mahony | Cork, Ireland | 1914? | | From Mitchelstown in Cork. Maker of Fiddles and Warpipes. |
| O'Keeffe Warpipes | O'Keeffe | Tippperary, Ireland | 1910 | | Is said to have been one of the first makers of Warpipes in Ireland in the 20th century. Prior to that Warpipes weren't known to have been made since 1870. |
| O'Crowley Music | Tadhg & Denis Crowley | Cork, Ireland | 1920 | 1952 1966 | Brother's Tadhg and Denis Crowley made Warpipes, Highland Pipes, and Uilleann pipes in Cork. |
| David Naill & Co., Ltd. | Leslie Cowell | Somerset, England | | | Founded 1976. Makers of Scottish Bagpipes, Smallpipes & chanters. |
| Peter Henderson Ltd. | Peter Henderson | Glasgow, Scotland | 1868 | 1972 | One of the famous Scottish bagpipe makers. Merged with R. G. Hardie & Co. in 1972. |
| R. G. Hardie & Co. | Robert G. Hardie | Glasgow, Scotland | 1950 | | |

### Uilleann pipes

| Firm | Name | Location | Apprenticed | Retired |
| Unknown | William Taylor | Philadelphia, PA | 1840-1872 | 1901 |
| The Burley Bagpipes Company | Graham Burley | Naramata, British Columbia, Canada | | |
| Unknown | Charles Taylor | Philadelphia, PA | 1840-1872 | 1902 |
| | Patrick A. Brown | Boston, Massachusetts | 1910 | 1958 |
| | Leo Rowsome | | | |
| | Bruce Childress | Maine | | |

### Scottish smallpipes and borderpipes

| Firm | Name | Location | Retired | Notes |
| Fisher Bagpipes | Wayne Fisher | Sarnia, ON | | Self-taught pipemaker. |
| | Hamish Moore | Dunkeld | X | |
| | Fin Moore | Dunkeld | | Smallpipes, Borderpipes and Bagpipes |
| Fred Morrison Smallpipes | | | | Smallpipes and Borderpipes manufactured by McCallum Bagpipes Ltd |
| The Burley Bagpipes Company | Graham Burley | Naramata, British Columbia, Canada | | |
| John Walsh Bagpipes Ltd. | John Walsh | Antigonish, NS | | Smallpipes, Great Highland Pipes, and Shuttlepipes. |
| Iona Bagpipes | Bill Hart | Sydney, Australia | | Smallpipes, Scottish Double Smallpipes |

### Northumbrian pipes

| Name | Location | Apprenticed | Retired | Notes |
| John Dunn | Newcastle upon Tyne | 1764 | 1820 | Developed keywork for the Northumbrian smallpipe around 1800 |
| G.G. Armstrong | England | 1877 | 1955 | |
| Jack Armstrong | Wideopen, North Tyneside | 1904 | 1978 | |
| Robert Reid | Newcastle upon Tyne | 1786 | 1837 | |
| Tom Clough | Newsham | 1881 | 1964 | |
| Colin Ross | United Kingdom | | | |
| William H. Hedworth | | | 1994 | |

### Lincolnshire bagpipes

| Name | Firm | Location | Apprenticed | Retired | Notes | Refs |
| John Addison | | South Somercotes, Lincolnshire | | | | |

### Cornish bagpipes

| Name | Firm | Location | Apprenticed | Retired | Notes | Refs |
| Christopher Bayley | | | | | | |
| Julian Goodacre | | Peebles | | | | |

### Shuttle pipes

| Firm | Name | Location | Apprenticed | Retired | Notes | Refs |
| John Walsh Bagpipes Ltd. | John Walsh, Tom MacMillan | Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada | | | | |

## Continental European pipes
### Armenian bagpipes

| Name | Firm | Location | Apprenticed | Retired | Notes | Refs |
| Karen Hakobyan | | | | | | |

### Estonian bagpipes (torupill)

| Name | Firm | Location | Apprenticed | Retired | Notes | Refs |
| Ants Taul | | Estonia | | | | |

### Greek Bagpipes

| Name | Firm | Location | Apprenticed | Retired | Notes | Refs |
| Yannis Pantazis | La Ponta | | | | Venetian Tower Greek bagpipe exhibition-workshop | |

### Swedish bagpipes (säckpipa)

| Name | Firm | Location | Apprenticed | Retired | Notes | Refs |
| Alban Faust | | Sweden | | | | |
| Leif Eriksson | | Sweden | | | | |

## Sources
### Bibliography

* Hardy, Neal (March 1990). "Changing Traditions: Bagpipes in Australia". Australian Folklore (4): 64–73.
* Merryweather, James W. (May 2001). "Two-chanter Bagpipes in England". The Galpin Society Journal. 54: 62–75. doi:10.2307/842446. JSTOR 842446.
* O'Neill, Francis (1973). Irish Minstrels and Musicians (1st Norwood ed.). Darby, Pennsylvania: Norwood Editions. ISBN 0-88305-494-9.
* Teahan, John (May 1963). "A List of Irish Instrument Makers". The Galpin Society Journal. 16 (16): 28–32. doi:10.2307/841092. JSTOR 841092.

### News articles

* Collins, Glenn (1980-09-15). "And pipes for almost everywhere else". The New York Times. p. B14. Retrieved 2010-05-15.
* Edwards, Bill (2003-11-22). "When pipes called, he answered". The Advertiser. p. 80.
* Morden, Paul (2009-11-16). "Bagpipes unfairly maligned". The Observer. pp. 1, 3. Retrieved 2010-02-12.
* Prenon, Mary T. (1997-09-29). "Echoes of Scotland". Westchester County Business Journal. Vol. 36, no. 39. pp. 1, 2.
* Rosenberg, Merri (1995-10-08). "Bagpipe maker outdoes the Scots". The New York Times. p. 13WC.14. Retrieved 2009-05-31.

### Online resources

* "Pipers be wise, Sinclairise!". William Sinclair and Son. Retrieved 2010-05-15.
* "Macbeth and Co Bagpipes". Retrieved 2016-01-15.
* "Dunbar Bagpipe Maker Ltd". Retrieved 2020-06-17.
* "John Walsh Bagpipes Ltd". Retrieved 2020-06-17.
* "The Burley Bagpipe Company". Retrieved 2020-06-17.
* "Lee & Sons Bagpipes". Retrieved 2020-06-17.
* "Iona Bagpipes". Retrieved 2024-07-14.