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The Glendinning Collection is a great new compilation of music for the Highland bagpipe. It has a wide variety of high-quality tunes, many of which were written by Charlie Glendinning. Other composers range from well-known modern pipers, such as Bob Worall and Ann Grey, to the famed 19th-century piper Angus MacKay.
The book contains more marches than anything, but there's a wide selection of tune types.
Note: While this book was intended for Highland pipers, it may be used by other instrumentalists. For hints to reading pipe music.
It seems that many modern pipe tunes are little more than finger exercises.
They're impressive if you can play them up to speed, but not many have very memorable melodies. But Glendinning has a knack for writing good melodies and has written some tunes destined to enter the repertoire. In addition to writing new tunes, he has also written additional parts for existing tunes that fit well with the music. It often seems that he has tapped in to the composer's subconscious and is extending the tune in a way originally intended, if only the original composer had bothered to write down the remaining parts.
However, this is more than just a collection of tunes. In a way, this is an autobiography, written through music and punctuated with other arts. There are many photos, mostly of Glendinning's family, but also of friends, pipe bands, Scotland -- and one of Glendinning having a bad face day. There is some poetry, several drawings and a gorgeous cover picture of what I'd guess is Glencoe, Scotland. Each tune is accompanied by a bit of text
describing its origin, the title's origin or a hint on playing it. As a whole, the book leaves me with a strong sense of what Glendinning finds most important: family, faith, friends and music. Given the stories and adventures related here, I'd guess that Glendinning is a fun guy to hang around with, just waiting for the next bit of excitement or humour to spring forth.

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