Alan's Wacky World of Bagpipes

Welcome to Alan's Wacky World of Bagpipes images page. As stated elsewhere at my site: "Because there exists a growing body of bagpipe related information and resources on the Internet, particularly for the Great Highland Bagpipe, the emphasis of these pages will be on lesser known varieties which have not been covered as completely by other sites." If you have images, or links to sites that have images that ought to be here, send an e-mail to me (use the 'Contact' button on the navigation table at the bottom of the page) and I'll be happy to add them to these pages; I am especially looking for Middle-Eastern, and Balkan piping images. Below, you will find a catagorized list to help you locate specific groups of images with descriptions. Also, be sure to visit my home page (the link is at the bottom of this page) to view the Table of Contents of other interesting pages at my site.

Now, see if you can solve this:

"The living carries the dead.
The dead cries out with a loud voice.
The living is out of breath."
What is it?
(An old Maltese riddle)

(The answer is located at the bottom of this page.)

The Bagpipe Images Pages

• British Isles Bagpipes

• Western (Continental) European Bagpipes

• Northern & Eastern European Bagpipes

• Balkan Bagpipes

• Middle Eastern and West Asian Bagpipes

• Bizarre and Unusual Bagpipes

• Bagpipe Cartoons & Comix

• National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.
• Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.
• Reid School of Music, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.
• The National Piping Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.
• Fraser Collection, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.
• Morpeth Chantry, Morpeth, Northumberland, U.K.
• Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K. - Anthony Bain's Bagpipes book available.
• Royal College of Music, London, U.K.
• Victoria & Albert Museum, London U.K.
• Boosey & Hawkes, Edgeware, N. London. U.K.
• Horniman Museum, London, U.K.
• Conservatoire du Paris, Paris, France
• Musée National des Arts et Traditions Populaires, Paris, France
• Musée des Musiques Populaires, Montluçon, Centre France. Les Cornemuses de George Sand book available.
• Musée de Luthier, Jenzat, Allier, Centre France
• Musée de la Musique, Anduze, Languedoc, France
• Musée du Nice, Nice, Cote d'Azur, Provence, France
• Museo de la Gaita, Gijon, Asturias, Spain. - Museo de la Gaita catalog available.
• Néprajzi M&eacutu;zeum, Budapest, Hungary. - A duda / The Bagpipe Catalogi Musei Ethnographiae catalog available.
• Smithsonian Museum, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y., U.S.A
• National Music Museum, The University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, U.S.A.

(Answer to the riddle: a bagpipe)