ur Drumran range of Scottish Smallpipes offer the piper the ideal instrument for playing in the home or smaller venue.

Mouth blown Scottish Smallpipes are a fantastic instrument with a long history, they are easily mastered and offer the piper a new experience in sound and playability.

Our addition of a synthetic bag, newly designed water trap stock and plastic reeds greatly improve the tuning and setting up of these pipes.

The bellows-blown bagpipes with conical-bore chanters of Lowland Scotland, the Borders and the North of England have all derived over the centuries from the medieval single-droned and mouth-blown instrument. The evolution of the various bellows pipes can be seen as a response to social changes, and the needs of musicians to meet specific musical criteria.

From the late fifteenth century, pipers were employed in the principal Burgh towns of Lowland Scotland. Their duties were to accompany the drummer and wake the town at 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning and to play round the town at 7 or 8 o'clock at night, thus demarcating the working day. The pipers and drummers were well thought of and received fine uniforms and shoes, free meals and housing, and were allowed to play at weddings and other festivities for a fee.

The music that has come down to us reflects these two major uses . On one hand a great number of dance tunes survive, and on the other town tunes or processional tunes.

The small pipes were not proscribed after Culloden and they were known to be played in both the 1st Highland Battalion and the 77th Regiment (Montgomery's Highlanders).

Greig Sharp's opinion on Drumran Smallpipes: "Even though I have played and loved the highland bagpipe for over 50 years you are now more likely to find me perched on the end of my desk playing a set of Smallpipes, they are just so easy and enjoyable to play".

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