This is a list of bagpipers, organized by type of
bagpipes
Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, N ...
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Historically notable bagpipers
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King Edward VII
Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.
The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria and ...
, (1841–1910)
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King Edward VIII
Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972), later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India, from 20 January ...
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Daniel Laidlaw
Daniel Logan Laidlaw VC (26 July 1875 – 2 June 1950), nicknamed "The Piper of Loos", was a Scottish soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awar ...
, (1875–1950),
VC Piper in the Kings Own Scottish Borderers who received the
Victoria Cross
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during World War I, the highest award for gallantry that can be awarded to
British
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and
Commonwealth
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forces
Highland Bagpipers
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Kostadin Varimezov
Kostadin Varimezov () (1918-2002) was among the best-known Bulgarian bagpipers (gaida
Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well kno ...
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Alasdair Gillies
Alasdair Gillies (6 December 1963 – 27 August 2011) was a Scottish bagpiper and tutor, and one of the most successful competitive solo players of all time.
Life
Alasdair was born in Glasgow to parents Norman and Kathleen Gillies and lived ...
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Angus MacColl
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Anthony Field
Anthony Donald Joseph Field (born 8 May 1963) is an Australian musician, actor, songwriter and producer. He is best known as the leader of the children's group the Wiggles and a member of the 1980s and 1990s pop band the Cockroaches. While st ...
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Bill Millin
William Millin (14 July 1922 – 18 August 2010[ ...](_blank)
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Daniel Laidlaw
Daniel Logan Laidlaw VC (26 July 1875 – 2 June 1950), nicknamed "The Piper of Loos", was a Scottish soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awar ...
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VC
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Eric Rigler
Eric Rigler is an American player of the Uilleann pipes, Great Highland Bagpipes, and tin whistle. He performs as a solo artist and with the band Bad Haggis, and has been featured on a number of movie soundtracks. He has been described as "the ...
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Fred Morrison
Fred Morrison (born 1963 in Bishopton, Renfrewshire) is a Scottish musician and composer. He has performed professionally on the Great Highland Bagpipes, Scottish smallpipes, Border pipes, low whistle, Northumbrian Smallpipes and uilleann pipes ...
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Gordon Duncan
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Jack Churchill
John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, (16 September 1906 – 8 March 1996) was a British Army officer. Nicknamed "Fighting Jack Churchill" and "Mad Jack", he fought in the Second World War with a basket-hilted Scottish broadsword, and a set ...
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Jack Lee
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Jamie Holton
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John Burgess
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Jori Chisholm
Jori Lance Chisholm (born September 23, 1975) is an American professional bagpipe player and teacher who lives in Seattle, Washington. Chisholm is a successful solo competitor winning the United States Gold Medal four times and has placed in the ...
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Martyn Bennett
Martyn Bennett (17 February 1971 – 30 January 2005) was a Canadian-Scottish musician who was influential in the evolution of modern Celtic fusion, a blending of traditional Celtic music, Celtic and modern music. He was a piper, violinist, com ...
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Pipe Major Donald MacLeod, MBE
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Pipe Major William Lawrie
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Richard Parkes
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Stuart Liddell
Stuart Liddell Order of the British Empire, MBE (born 12 January 1973) is a Scottish people, Scottish bagpipe player, playing Great Highland bagpipe. As well as competing in solo competitions, he is the Pipe major of the Inveraray and District Pip ...
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Willie McCallum
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Liam Kernaghan
Northumbrian smallpipers
Scottish smallpipers
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Fred Morrison
Fred Morrison (born 1963 in Bishopton, Renfrewshire) is a Scottish musician and composer. He has performed professionally on the Great Highland Bagpipes, Scottish smallpipes, Border pipes, low whistle, Northumbrian Smallpipes and uilleann pipes ...
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Iain MacInnes
Iain MacInnes is a Scottish folk musician, currently working as the producer of the BBC Radio Scotland bagpipe music program ''Pipeline''. He was formerly presenter of that program, before taking a one-year sabbatical in 2002 to write a book on ...
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Brìghde Chaimbeul
Brìghde Chaimbeul (; born 1998) is a Scottish piper, who plays the traditional Great Highland bagpipe and the revived Scottish smallpipes.
Life
Chaimbeul was born in 1998 and brought up in Sleat on the Isle of Skye, and is a native Gaelic spe ...
Asturian bagpipers (gaiteros)
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Hevia
José Ángel Hevia Velasco, known professionally as Hevia (born October 11, 1967 in Villaviciosa, Asturias), is an Asturian bagpiper – specifically, an Asturian gaita player. He commonly performs with his sister, María José, on drums ...
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La Reina del Truébano
La Reina del Truébano (literally, in English, the Queen of the Hive) is an Asturian gaitas band formed in 1996. It is known for being a first grade band in Asturias and Spain, and also for its participation in important competitions and festiva ...
Galician bagpipers (gaiteiros)
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Anxo Lorenzo
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Avelino Cachafeiro
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Carlos Núñez
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Cristina Pato
Cristina Pato Lorenzo (born August 17, 1980) is a Galician bagpiper, pianist and composer. She is a member of the Silk Road Ensemble led by Yo-Yo Ma and an educational adviser to the Silk Road Project. In 2017 she was collaborating with Harvard ...
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Susana Seivane
Swedish bagpipes
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Anders Norudde
Anders Norudde (born Anders Stake, 1960) is a Sweden, Swedish folk music, folk musician, multi-instrumentalist, and luthier. After finishing school, Anders took a job at the ironworks in Degerfors, where, in his spare time, he practiced orienteer ...
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Per Gudmundson
Per Gudmundson, born 1955, is a Swedish folk musician
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Uilleann pipes
Other notable bagpipers
Notable bands with nontraditional use of bagpipes
See also
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Canadian pipers in World War I
Canadian pipers in World War I were soldiers who contributed to the First World War by playing the bagpipes as they marched the troops to the front (military), front. These men were often members of a pipe band, that chose to enlist at the outbrea ...
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List of pipe bands
References
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