College of Piping
The College of Piping was founded in
The College of Piping Tutor Book 1, by the then Joint Principals Seumas MacNeill and Thomas Pearston, was first issued in 1952, and is easily the biggest selling book on the bagpipe ever issued, selling to date (2011) 400,000 copies. This book is also available in Scottish Gaelic, French, German and Italian. In 2008 it became available in digital format and in 2011 available on iPad and iPhone.
Since 1948 the College of Piping has published the
The College pioneered outreach teaching of the bagpipe when, in the early 1950s, Seumas MacNeill established schools of piping in North America. This undoubtedly led to an upsurge of interest in Scottish bagpiping on that continent and in no small way contributed to the high standard of piping in Canada and the United States currently enjoyed there. In 2007 the College established the first outreach teaching school on the European mainland when it launched its Winter School in Germany in association with the Pipers Corner shop at Brüggen. This school has since relocated to Homburg in Saarland. The College has two annual school in the US in California and New England in June and July each year. The College of Piping is a registered charity in the United Kingdom.
In March 2018 The National Piping Centre took over The College of Piping which then ceased to exist. The premises at Otago Street are used by the National Piping Centre for teaching, competition and recital and is known as 'The National Piping Centre Otago Street, Formerly known as The College of Piping.'
References and notes
Further reading
- MacNeill, Seamus, and Thomas Pearston, The College of Piping Highland Bagpipe Tutor, Pt. 1. (New Revised Edition, with CD or MP3). Glasgow, Scotland: College of Piping.
- MacNeill, Seamus, and Thomas Pearston, The College of Piping Highland Bagpipe Tutor, Pt. 2. (With DVD). Glasgow, Scotland: College of Piping.
- MacNeill, Seamus, and Thomas Pearston, The College of Piping Highland Bagpipe Tutor, Pt. 3. (with CD ). Glasgow, Scotland: College of Piping.
- MacNeill, Seamus, and Thomas Pearston, The College of Piping Highland Bagpipe Tutor for Piobaireachd, Pt. 4. (with CD). (Note: Angus J. Maclellan plays and teaches the 4 Piobaireachds in the College of Piping's Yellow Tutor, volume 4). Glasgow, Scotland: College of Piping.
- The College of Piping Highland Bagpipe Tutor, Pt. 1. (In Scottish Gaelic, with CD). Glasgow, Scotland: College of Piping.
- The College of Piping Highland Bagpipe Tutor, Pt. 1. (In Italian, trad. Pietro Malaguti, with CD). Glasgow, Scotland: College of Piping.
- Piping Times(Periodical). Glasgow, Scotland: College of Piping.
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