The Bagpipe (The History) Francis Collinson

[OC Richard]

This is a fairly rare book but here's a copy on Ebay for $10 https://www.ebay.com/itm/22728846323...102140.m167418

The Bagpipe
The History of a Musical Instrument
Francis Collinson
Routledge & Kegan Paul, London and Boston 1975

Though I have quibbles with the Scotocentric viewpoint, the shamefully misleading use of the terms "pipes" "pipers" and "piping" when speaking of numerous instruments that are NOT bagpipes, and the presenting of several vague jury's-still-out bits of evidence as being valid, this remains the most scholarly book on bagpipe history I know of.

To put it another way, he's done a huge amount of raw research but presents it indiscriminately, accepting everything that fits his narrative as valid.

It's left to the reader to take off their tartan-tinted glasses and soberly evaluate the evidence. I've gone down the rabbit-hole with a few of the things and found that there's less there than one would think.