"Does more than any previous tune book to search for and find the core of the English bagpipe tradition" (William Marshall)

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Pete Stewart has been playing traditional dance music for over thirty years and has been piping for fifteen of them. The fruits of his playing and researching English piping are contained in this long awaited collection. The book combines literary descriptions, pictorial and sculptural representations and an historical commentary with 70 tunes from across 8 centuries, many unavailable in print elsewhere, to present a vivid picture of a more or less forgotten aspect of English musical life, as well as offering a unique repertoire to today’s players.

This publication is an important contribution to the reclamation of piping traditions and should be in every piper’s instrument case.

“Bagpipes were a feature of the English scene for many centuries and Pete Stewart has done a grand job of collecting, editing and playing the music of this neglected tradition.”
(Roderick Cannon, author of ‘The Highland Bagpipe and its Music” and “A Bibliography of Bagpipe Music”)

"..for its music, the historical information, and the illustrations, it is a book I am delighted to have in my collection"
Jock Agnew, editor, Common Stock, Journal of the Lowland and Border Pipers' Society, June 2002