Teach Yourself Bagpipes

This is a completely free teach yourself bagpipes site. It is a complete school, from zero to intermediate level tunes, with mp3 examples, exercises and very clear and simple instructions arranged in short chapters:

Plenty of people buy chanters and then give up through frustration at a lack of instructions. It is my hope that many such people, everywhere, will be able to succeed in learning to play. I believe that should they stick with piping, all pipers, pipe bands and piping supply services will have something to gain - be it a sale of a bagpipe, music books, reeds, attendance at summer schools, CDs, band membership or one to one lessons .

I am not trying to compete with commercial services, nor detract from them, but rather complement them by getting more people involved and developing the interest of those who already have chanters.

Piping has for many years been taught free of charge, to its general benefit. I offer this site in that tradition.