Tehachapi Mountain Pipes & Drums

Tune List

Amazing Grace
America the Beautiful
Blue Bells of Scotland
The Brown Haired Maiden
Coultiers Candy
Crags of Tumbledown Mountain
Dreams of Old Pa Fogerty
Farewell to Camraw
Green Hills of Tyrol
High Road to Gairloch
Highland Cathedral

Itchey Fingers
Johnnie Scobie
Land of My Youth
Minstrel Boy
Rowan Tree
Scotland the Brave
Skyeboat
Welsh Aire
When the Battles O'er
Will Ye No Come Back Again
Wings
Irish Set #1 - Gary Owen/Rakes of Mallow/Wearing of the Green
Irish Set #2 - Star of the County Down/When Irish Eyes Are Smiling/Irish Washerwoman
The Gael (Last of the Mohicans Theme)

Bagpipe Tuning & Maintenance

The tuning of pipe chanter reeds and the drones for all pipers in a pipe band is a time consuming tast for the lead piper. You can help speed up this process and avoid wasted time by adhering to the following guidelines.

Keep your pipes properly maintained - seasoned, oiled, hemped, etc.

Play your pipes every day at home to keep them working properly.

Avoid moving your chanter reed between band practices.

At band practices or before parades, play your pipes for 10 minutes to settle the reeds prior to having them fine tunes.

When asked to, carefully remove your pipe chanter from the pipes, without disturbing or damaging the reed.

Check your chanter against the electronic tuner, by blowing a steady "low A". the lead piper will oversee the correct seating of the reed in the chanter to achieve the correct pitch, and will confirm by matching the scale on your chanter to his.

Replace your chanter carefully into the bagpipes.

Form a line to have your drones fine tuned by the designated person.

Do not play either your chanter or your drones while the other band members are being tuned up.

Listen for, and obey promptly, and directions given by the band leaders.

Basic Bagpipe Maintenance Kit:

Hemp, Beeswax, Cobbler's Wax, Bore Oil, Set of Bottle Brushes, Rag, Bag Seasoning, Small Plastic Tie-Wraps, Set of 5 Large Stock Corks, Set of 3 Small Drone Corks, Sharp Knife, Spare Pipe Chanter Reeds, Spare Drone Reeds.