This page contains links and resources which may be of interest to pipers and drummers involved in pipe band activity throughout North Queensland in particular, and throughout Australia in general.
If you are part of an organisation that would like to share your presence on the web with people with similar interests in pipe bands, please feel free to contact us by sending your link information to: links( at )nqscots.com
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| Pipe Bands Australia | The governing body for pipe bands and pipe band competitions in Australia | |
| Pipe Bands Australia Queensland Branch | The co-ordinating body for Pipe Bands in Queensland. Our job is to support existing Bands, help raise the standard of playing and performance and look for ways to grow the Pipe Band movement. |
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| Our Community | ourcommunity.com.au strengthens Australia's community groups, education institutions and non-profit organisations by providing grants and funding advice, training, a free online donations service and practical information on fundraising, governance, financial management, technology and much more |
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OzTenor | Information and online assistance for the pipe band Tenor Drummer, includes forum youtube video link and blog! |
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| Arts Queensland | Arts Queensland is a Department of the Queensland Government that develops and implements cultural policy and administers cultural funding and capital works programs that support arts and cultural development for the benefit of the community. | |
| Charters Towers Regional Council | Website of Charters Towers Regional Council. |
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| ABC Notation Software | This is the software page at abcnotation.com. abc is a text based format for music notation, particularly popular for folk and traditional music. | |
| Bagpipe Music Writer | Bagpipe Music Writer GOLD provides low cost desktop publishing software for bagpipe music on IBM PC compatible computers. Bagpipe Music Writer GOLD was released by Robert MacNeil Musicworks in May 1999 and is the best software available for both printing your bagpipe music (light music and piobaireachd) and for producing high quality playing of bagpipe music. | |
| Celtic Pipes | CelticPipes is an easy-to-use music notation software application (for Mac and Windows) that allows you to compose and play quality scores principally for the Great Highland Bagpipe and for the following traditional 'Celtic' musical (and percussion) instrument | |
| CutePDF | Although not strictly music software, those running on Windows will find this a useful utility to allow music programs to print directly to a PDF file. Apple Macs have native support for creating PDF files. | |
| DrumScriobh | DrumScriobh 2, pronounced "DRUMSCREEV", Scriobh in Gaelic is "to write" is a drum score writing application, with wave sound playback, for Windows. The composer initially defines the score characteristics when a new score is created from the File menu. Next the music structure is defined with a simple user interface. i.e. Time signature, How many lines This is very similar to the PiobMaster structure dialog. In addition, there are a number of toolbars which may be used to drag and drop structure items, clefs, time signatures etc. directly on to the score. | |
| Electric Pipes | Electric Pipes 3.1 Bagpipe Music Engraving Software for bagpipes and drums. | |
| Piobmaster | PiobMaster 2.3, pronounced "PEEBMASTER", Piob in Gaelic is "bagpipe", is a WYSIWYG application, where the composer initially defines the music structure with a simple user interface. i.e. Time signature, How many Parts etc..etc... The user then has the ability to "drag and drop", notes, doublings and embellishments from their palettes onto the stave. Notes can be "Grouped, "Dotted","Cut" or "Tied" by simply selecting them and pressing the appropriate button. | |
| The ABC Music Project | ABC, developed by Chris Walshaw, is a format designed to notate music using plain text. It was originally designed for folk tunes of Western European origin which can be written on one staff, but has since been extended to support the notation of complete, classical music scores. Since its introduction at the end of 1991, ABC has become very popular. Programs on many operating systems use ABC as an input and/or output format. There are programs which produce printed sheet music or allow for computer performances, search in tune databases, or that analyze tunes in some way. The aim of this project is to promote the ABC language by maintaining the ABC standard and a set of software and source code that manipulate and present music written in ABC. | |
| Tunebook | Tunebook is a viewer for music expressed in the ABC format. ABC is a simple text-based notation for music and many thousands of tunes are freely available in this format on the Web. ABC is also supported by many music applications. See http://abc.sourceforge.net/ for more details on the ABC format. Tunebook exists in two versions: one for the iPhone and one for the iPad. | |
| Universal Piper | Universal Piper is a midi virtual instrument. It can be used solely or included in a DAW(*). It responds to midi note On/Off from Ab3 to Bb4 (for the standart GHB presets), which correspond to the natural scale of the GHB instrument; but can be also used with a midi practice chanter. |
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| City of Rockhampton Pipe Band | Pipe band based in Rockhampton. | |
| NQ Scots | NQ Scots Pipe Band is based in North Queensland, Australia. We are a not for profit organisation focused on providing the motivation, opportunity and resources necessary to rebuild and develop the pipe band movement throughout the region. |
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| Andrew Lenz's Bagpipe Journey | Reference material for pipers of all levels. Covers care of the instrument, history, competition tips, and information on bands and bagpipers. | |
| Bagpipe Pitch and Loudness | A view on: Bagpipe Pitch, the effect of loudness on perceived pitch and the perfect pitch. | |
| Bob Dunsire - Bagpipe Web dierctory | A web directory of Bagpipe related links. Bagpipe tunes, Bagpipe tune collections, music software , music books. | |
| Music Scales & the Theory - The Basics | Bagpipe music scales and the theory of tuning bagpipes. Opinions and explanations on things such as chromatic scales, harmony, temperament, intonation and pitch. Material to read and perhaps give an understanding of the jargon and terms relating to tuning. | |
| School of Piping | The online School of Piping has been established to provide interesting, entertaining material and educational support for pipers all around the world. It is now one of the most visited sites about the Great Highland Bagpipe on the net. | |
| The Piobaireachd Society | This Society was formed in 1903 to encourage the study and playing of piobaireachd, the classical music of the Highland bagpipe. It has collected the available piobaireachd manuscripts and from these and the knowledge of the existing experts and players published 15 books with the piobaireachd, written in staff notation accompanied by notes on the sources. The Society has also published the Kilberry Book of Ceol Mor by Archibald Campbell - a collection of 112 of the better-known tunes. There are notes, separately published as Sidelights and Further Sidelights that tell of Kilberry's own famous teachers and what they taught him. |
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