The Colloquium is being held in conjunction with the special exhibition of historic bagpipes from Scotland, England and Ireland The Piper's Whim (1 - 31 August 2013) at St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh. This exhibition will be the culmination of the project Enriching our Musical Heritage funded by the U.K. Heritage Lottey Fund as part of the HLF Collecting Cultures programme.

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9:00

Registration

9:15

First Session Session chairman: Arnold Myers, University of Edinburgh

9:15

Before the bag: piping in Britain and Ireland, 700-1300 Barnaby Brown, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Music

10:00

Bellows Bagpipes in 17th century England and the Origins of the Border Pipe Paul Roberts

10:45

The Bagpipe in the Nineteenth Century English "Soundscape" and Imagination Clive Matthews, University of East Anglia, School of Language and Communication Studies

11:30

Coffee

11:50

Second Session Session chairman: Hugh Cheape, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, University of the Highlands & Islands

11:50

Digging the Dird - the dance music of the Lowland piper Pete Stewart, The Lowland and Border Pipers' Society

12:30

The blossoming of the Northumberland small-pipes in late 18th/early 19th centuries Graham Wells

14:30

Third Session Session chairman: Graham Wells

14:30

Fact and Fiction: The 'Bannochburn' or MacIntyre Pipes and their owners Keith Sanger

15:05

'Bundle and go': contradictions in the record of piping in Scotland Hugh Cheape, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, University of the Highlands & Islands

15:40

Tea

16.00

Fourth Session Session chairman: Sarah Deters, University of Edinburgh

16:00

"A handsome pipe of superior tone and workmanship" - A Collector's Approach to the Study of Early Scottish Bagpipes Andreas Hartmann-Virnich, Université d'Aix-Marseille, Laboratoire d'Archéologie Médiévale et Moderne en Méditerranée LA3M UMR 7298

16:45

Noting The Tradition James Beaton, The National Piping Centre, Glasgow

The Colloquium will be followed at 19:30 by the concert Ceòl na Pìoba is Ceòl na Gàidhealtachd - an evening of traditional Highland music organised in association with the National Piping Centre, Glasgow and Piping Live! 2013

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This event is part of the celebrations of the 250th Anniversary of the opening of St Cecilia's Hall

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