ViperPiper's Bagpipe Tunes

The high A's are more or less rests, in the fashion that has been popular in piping for some years now. Thus this tune won't sound quite right on the practice chanter, and requires a nicely tuned set for the melody to come out. I composed this for the Hurricane victims of the Gulf Coast of the Unite...

Well, my side of the Fertile Crescent isn't really "belly-dance country." I was thinking more of the spontaneous expressions of faith as done in dance, maybe at weddings, or when someone experiences what they are certain was a miracle. Besides, with the epidemic in youthful obesity these days, even ...

The dancing to which this tune refers was one of "spontaneous joy," as oppossed to something correographed. The beat structure might be more typical of the eastern Med, than modern Highland dance. (Though I wonder sometimes how much conformity, Calvinism and competition have done to native Highland ...

New bandsman. Photo taken on Independance Day, 12 May this year, in the Jewish Quarter of the old city of Jerusalem.

-David.

The Oregon National Guard Reserve Pipe Band is now called The Oregon State Defense Forces Pipe Band . I am in this photo, as is my future wife (the blonde dancer standing on the far left). I was in the middle of an overly-long process of getting a BSc. at the time in Eugene, Oregon. The members wer...

Time changes are real smooth--altogether a nice sound. Sometimes "a little funny" means it doesn't sound like everything else. Thanks for the addition to the repetoire--I think I'll learn this one.

Named after one of our more famous Kings, for his spontaneous dance before the Ark of the Covenant on its way up the mountain to be returned to Jerusalem.

Well, I do like that Low G. Nice to see a Low G that makes a statement, intead of one that's just "passing through" a melody.

The more we compose out-of-the-box, the more we invigorate our music.

-David.

Sounds quite strong. I like this style of hornpipe accompianied by a large bohdran. Judging by your name, you might like this, too.

(I had strong family connections to Dunedin once.)

Good job.

-David.

A great old tune given a new lease on life. I'd bet that quite a few of the nice, strong melodies among the classic 4- and 6-part marches would make good hornpipes (or as my Irish music-playing friends would say about the rounded style, good reels ). Amazing what a few shots of collagen can do for a...

I could see some large orchestral cymbals in a few places in this tune.

Now my listener's appetite is whetted! Do you have a "save as" option, wherein a graphic version can be selected, with your programme, as does BMW GOLD?

Conversion missionaries, save this file! Graphic and BWW.

I am thinking of the feline variety, and not the human one once found in the employ of municipal hygiene departments. Either way--a jig. Please enjoy.

What does a country do when it has, at great expense, designed a line of state-of-the-art naval vessels, made a contractual agreement with the shipyards of a foreign power to build them, and paid in full for those naval vessels, and the other country decides, after the boats have been built, not onl...

Can you send up a *.gif for us? I don't have your software, and I hate to see a new tune listed that I can't look at. Who knows, I might be missing the tune of the century!

Thanks,
-David.