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The Piping Circle Music Page
Last up date: March 5, 2010
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 don't do parades.
Tunes in red are in our current repertoire.
Tunes in Green are in the process of being
added to the repertoire.
| 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 | 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/ Scots Guards Departure to Egypt/ The 78ths' Walk Round (The Liverpool Hornpipe) | 9/18/08 | Play | BMW | Page 1 | |
| Play | BMW | Page 2 | |||
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 | |
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 | |||
| 2008 - 09 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 |