Chris Ormston

Northumbrian Small Pipes, Border Pipes, Scottish Small Pipes

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Border Pipes 
Border pipes are also known as Lowland or Half-Long pipes.  Like the Northumbrian small pipes, Border pipes are bellows-blown, but have an open-ended chanter with a tapered bore, making them louder and higher in pitch.  Their volume is such that they can be heard comfortably indoors and out.  Common in Northern England and Lowland Scotland in the 18th Century, they had all but died out by the mid Twentieth Century, but are now undergoing something of a revival.
 
Below:  Chris plays an old Border tune, "Cock Up Your Beaver" on Border pipes.
 

 

 Chris plays Border pipes by:

http://www.garviebagpipes.co.uk/