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The Piping Circle Music Page
Musical Director: Catherine Young.
The Los Gatos Piping Circle is able to provide bagpipers for your entertainment and enjoyment. Email for information or call Phil Lenihan, Business Manager, 408-996-8302
Settings are mostly standard, WUSPBA or College of Piping - Essential Tunes 1 and 2.
The Piping Circle is a social band devoted to high quality bagpipe music. We are not a marching band and do very few parades.
Tunes in red are in our current repertoire.
Tunes in Green are in the process of being
added to the repertoire or posted for the future.
Last update: January 28, 2011
| Title | Date | Play | BMW | Comments | |
New Set 2/26/10 |
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| Slow Air: Victora Harbour | 2/28/10 | Play | BMW | ||
| Jig: Granny MacLeod long | 7/23/09 | Play | BMW | ||
| Hornpipe: Jimmy Blue | 10/16/09 | Play | BMW | ||
2/4
Sets |
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| Highland Laddie, Brown Haired Maiden and High Road to Gairloch | 7/6/07 | Play | BMW | ||
| The Piper's Cave/ Greenwood Side/ | 9/18/08 | Play | BMW | Page 1 | |
| Scots Guards Departure to Egypt/ The 78ths' Walk Round (The Liverpool Hornpipe) | Play | BMW | Page 2 | ||
| Arthur Bignold of Lochrosque | 11/4/10 | Play | BMW | ||
3/4
Sets |
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| J. K. Cairins and Shoals of Herring our usual warm up tunes |
3/19/08 | Play | BMW | ||
| The Green Hills of Tyrol and When the Battle's O've | 6/18/03 | Play | BMW | WUSPBA | |
| Castle Dangerous and The Highland Brigade at Magersfontein | 11/19/07 | Play | BMW | ||
4/4 |
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| Scotland the Brave and No Awa' to Bide Awa' | 6/18/03 | Play | BMW | WUSPBA | |
| 4/4 March Set | |||||
| The following 4/4 set has a Brian Boru harmony introduction, 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Catherine will assign you your part. | |||||
Battle of Waterloo, |
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| Starts with Harmony 1 Burr, Sue & Fred |
1/27/11 | Play | BMW | ||
| Starts with Harmony 2 Phil & Wes |
1/27/11 | Play | BMW | ||
| Starts with Harmony 3 Catherine & Daryl |
1/27/11 | Play | BMW | ||
6/8
Set |
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| El Alemain | 6/1/07 | Play | BMW | ||
| Mr. and Mrs. Alex Ross | 7/6/07 | Play | BMW | ||
6/8
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| Dr. Ross's 50th welcome to the Argyllshire Gathering | PLAY | BMW | |||
| 2011 MSR | |||||
| 2/4 - Glen Caladh Castle | 7/1/08 | Play | BMW | ||
| Starathspey - Captain
Colin Campbell & Reel - Colonel MacLeod |
CM 7/24/08 CCC 9/2/08 |
Play | BMW | ||
| Strathspey - Reels | |||||
| Strathspey-Reel Set Strathspeys - Miss Ada Crawford and Sporting Jamie Reels - The Kilt is My Delight and The High Road to Linton |
11/19/07 | Play | BMW | ||
| Optional Reel Set Drowsy Maggie Malts on the Optics Jock Wilson's Ball |
9/4/07 | Play | BMW | These are just in case you run out of tunes to work on | |
Jig
Set |
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| The Lady in the Bottle, The One Horned Cow & Granny McCleod |
11/7/07 | Play | BMW | Two facing pages format* | |
| 11/7/07 | Play | BMW | Single page format
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| Slow Air/Jig | |||||
| Cagaran Gaolach- Slow March/Jig | 1/31/08 | Play | BMW | Reformatted the page. | |
| Irish Set | |||||
| Back to Donegal, March Polkas: Bog Down the Valley-O & O the Britches Full of Stitches |
7/11/07 | Play | BMW | ||
| Hornpipes | |||||
| Tam Bain's Lum* | 1/29/09 | Play | BMW | ||
| The Walrus | 9/20/07 | Play | BMW | ||
| Large One's Night Out* | 9/1/07 | Play | BMW | ||
| *Hornpipe exercises for Dubling-strikes. Rhythmic Fingerwork, #136 - #141, on B, C and D. Copied from the book. | |||||
| Exercises | |||||
| GDE Combos #1 and #2 | |||||
| Warm Up and Crossings Exercises | Play | BMW | |||
| Strathspey and Reels | 7/19/05 | Play | BMW | ||
| Page maintained by Phil Lenihan in cooperation with The Piping Circle members. | |||||
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St. Patrick's Day 2009 |
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Catherine Young, Musical Director |
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San Jose POA Police Chief's Chili Cook Off, 2009. L to R: Wes Weber, Mary Johnson, Sue Nissen, Burr Nessen and Phil Lenihan |