Visit our links to related sites. Our merchandise . Our journal Common Stock has been published twice yearly since 1983. This is full of articles on bagpipes, pipe players, pipe-making and pipe makers, as well as competitions, tunes, poems, letters and reviews of recordings, concerts and books.
Back issues are also available to members.
Our quarterly newsletter contains details of forthcoming social gatherings, performances and other events. Our Tutor for the Cauld Wind Bagpipes is an exhaustive guide to the history, maintenance and playing of the bellows-blown pipes of Scotland and includes 49 tunes from the Border and Lowland repertoire with instructions on how to read and interpret the music. We can direct members to fellow enthusiasts in their area through our Membership Directory , and give guidance on purchasing a set of smallpipes from the many makers in Scotland and beyond. We have supported two acclaimed recordings made on Greentrax Recordings - The Grand Concert of Scottish Piping and the Second Grand Concert of Piping . We have a range of other merchandise including books, T-shirts and stickers.