Old style Highland piping

[Nathan]

Barry Shears is an expert on the traditional Cape Breton piping, he's written a book on it I think. Here's a thread where he discusses the Cape Breton piping history

http://forums.bobdunsire.com/forums/.../t-113208.html

About the Cornish Doublepipes, some of the carvings show a single drone, some show no drones. No actual instruments exist so all our modern Cornish pipes are based on one or more of these carvings.

http://www.bagpipeworld.co.uk/countr.../altarnun.html

Barry is from my home town. Here's Barry talking about the style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OyxIMSelY8

Here he is playing it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8xLPVzqAdw