The Highland bagpipe
Modern History

The Highland bagpipe

W. L. Manson · narrated by Eric

2026

11h 11m$1.99

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The Highland bagpipe by W. L. Manson. A public-domain classic, freshly narrated.

Inside this audiobook

28 chapters

  1. 1Preface.3m
  2. 2CHAPTER I. Tuning up.15m
  3. 3CHAPTER II. Harpers, Bards, and Pipers.20m
  4. 4CHAPTER III. The Tale of the Years.46m
  5. 5CHAPTER IV. The Make of the Pipes.21m
  6. 6CHAPTER V. With an Ear to the Drone.25m
  7. 7CHAPTER VI. The “Language” of the Pipes.19m
  8. 8CHAPTER VII. The Literature of the Pipes.26m
  9. 9CHAPTER VIII. The Pipes in Battle.23m
  10. 10CHAPTER IX. The Piper as a Hero.18m
  11. 11CHAPTER X. The Regimental Piper.18m
  12. 12CHAPTER XI. The Piper as a Man of Peace.36m
  13. 13CHAPTER XII. The Burgh Pipers of Scotland.39m
  14. 14CHAPTER XIII. From the Seat of the Scorner.22m
  15. 15CHAPTER XIV. The Humour of the Pipes.31m
  16. 16CHAPTER XV. Demoniac Pipes and Pipers.17m
  17. 17CHAPTER XVI. Pipers and Fairies.26m
  18. 18CHAPTER XVII. Pipers in Enchanted Caves.17m
  19. 19CHAPTER XVIII. The Hereditary Pipers.28m
  20. 20CHAPTER XIX. Some Latter Day Pipers.19m
  21. 21CHAPTER XX. How Piping is Preserved.21m
  22. 22CHAPTER XXI. The Oldest Pipe Tunes.25m
  23. 23CHAPTER XXII. Some World-Famous Pibrochs.35m
  24. 24CHAPTER XXIII. Some Well-Known Gatherings.18m
  25. 25CHAPTER XXIV. More Stories and a Moral.34m
  26. 26I.—THE SCALE OF THE PIPES.39m
  27. 27V.—DIRECTORY OF BAGPIPE MAKERS.6m
  28. 28VII.—THE GARB OF OLD GAUL.22m
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