Listen to and compare the different instruments

The sound samples from this page are in MP3 format. MP3 offers excellent compression, resulting in a very small file size with near CD quality sound and is the standard for music on the Internet. Small file size means faster download times.

You will need some MP3 software to be able to listen to the sounds. Casady and Greenes excellent SoundJam MP is recommended. Apples free Quicklime Player which can play virtually all Internet sound and video formats, including MP3. Available for both Apple Mac and Windows. There are also plenty of other shareware and freeware MP3 players on the Internet, see the Links page.

The following tunes have been chosen not to show off the piper’s ability, but to simply help you make a decision about the differences of pitch in the following instruments range i.e. (A, Bb, C, D).

The following tracks have been recorded by myself with the exception of track C which is played by one of my former pupils and friends Mark Barry, who now sings (and plays a set of my pipes) in the new boy pop band B.B.MAK. That has recently taken America by storm.

Below are the downloads for each of my instruments, the tune that is being played and a brief description of which environment that instrument is suitable for.