📚 The Bagpipe

The regulated breath: the Highland pipes’ revival, the world’s relatives, and the instrument’s serious repertoire.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject bagpipe in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Some Reminiscences and the Bagpipe	Alexander Duncan Fraser	1907	4
	Tutor for the Highland bagpipe	Seumas MacNeill	1953	4
	Bagpipes	Baines, Anthony.	1960	4
	The Highland bagpipe and its music	Roderick D. Cannon	1988	4
	The Highland bagpipe	W. L. Manson	1901	3
	Bagpipes	Anthony Baines	1960	3
	The Irish bagpipes	Wilbert Garvin	1978	3
	The pipemajor's handbook	R. W. Lerwick	1980	3
	Piobaireachd and its interpretation	Seumas MacNeill	1987	3
	Traditional Gaelic bagpiping, 1745-1945	John G. Gibson	1998	3
	Bagpipes	Hugh Cheape	2007	3
	The Highland bagpipe	William Laird Manson	1901	2
	The piper in peace and war	Charles A. Malcolm	1927	2
	The Northumbrian bagpipes	William Alfred Cocks	1933	2
	Bagpipes and tunings	Theodor H. Podnos	1974	2
	Les musiques à bourdons	Roland Hollinger	1982	2
	The Book of the Bagpipe	Hugh Cheape	1999	2
	Intruments du diable, musique des anges	Dastum (Rennes)	1999	2
	Pipers	William Donaldson	2004	2
	Cornemuses de France, de Bourgogne et d'ailleurs	Jean Blanchard	2005	2
	Dudy	Zbigniew Jerzy Przerembski	2006	2
	Hal Leonard Bagpipe Method	Ron Bowen	2014	2
	Traité de la mvsette, avec vne novvelle methode, pour apprendre de soy-mesme à joüer de cét instrument facilement, & en peu de temps	Charles Emmanuel Borjon	1672	1
	Traité de la mvsette, avec vne novvelle methode, pour apprendre de soy-mesme à joüer de cét instrument facilement, & en peu de temps	Pierre Borjon de Scellery	1672	1
	Les musettes	Eugène de Bricqueville	1894	1
	The story of the bagpipe	William Henry Grattan Flood	1911	1
	The story of the bagpipe	William H. Grattan Flood	1911	1
	A bibliography of the bag-pipe	Gilbert Askew	1932	1
	The pipers' handbook	John A. MacLellan	1964	1
	The story of the bagpipe	William Henry Grattan Flood	1976	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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