Patron: Her Majesty The Queen
 Listen to Andrew Wright playing Scarce of Fishing
Click the play button on the left side of the music player to play Select the volume on the right side from the vertical bars Clicking the small "speaker" on the right will "mute" the sound (Photograph Courtesy of College of Piping ) What is a Piobaireachd
When the Highlands and Islands of Scotland adopted the bagpipe, perhaps some four hundred years ago, they began to develop the instrument and its music to suit their needs and tastes. What emerged was the instrument we know today and a form of music, piobaireachd, which is unique to the instrument. It is a very stylized form of music. There is freedom in the theme or ground of the piobaireachd to express joy, sadness, or sometimes in the gathering, a peremptory warning or call to arms. Thereafter the theme is repeated and underlined in a series of variations, which usually progress to the crunluath variation where the piper's fingers give a dazzling technical display of embellishment or gracenotes.
"The Piobaireachd Society is a charity registered in Scotland, No. SC001113"
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