Dick Hensold (born 16 March 1959) is an American

folk music Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has b ...

ian based in the state of

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. An active promoter of bagpipes, he plays Northumbrian smallpipes, Swedish pipes ( säckpipa), medieval great-pipes,

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, Montgomery smallpipes,

Great Highland bagpipes The Great Highland bagpipe ( gd, a' phìob mhòr "the great pipe") is a type of bagpipe native to Scotland, and the Scottish analogue to the Great Irish Warpipes. It has acquired widespread recognition through its usage in the British milita ...

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, seljefloyte,

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and

string bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar ...

. He played the Edinburgh Folk Festival in 1994, the

Lowland and Border Pipers' Society The Lowland and Border Pipers' Society was formed in the early 1980s,European Ethnological Research Centre. Scottish Life and Society: A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology, Volume 10'. Tuckwell Press, 2008. , to promote the study and playing of caul ...

Collogue (Peebles, Scotland) in 1997, and has taught Northumbrian smallpipes at workshops in the United States, Canada, and

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. He has also studied Cambodian music for many years, and performs in the ensemble Light From Heaven (formerly called New International Trio),

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, Vol 11, 1995 led by Cambodian master musician

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until his death in 2007. He has released a solo CD titled "Big Music for Northumbrian Smallpipes," which includes music written and arranged by him, as well as some traditional tunes. He studied recorder and early music at Oberlin conservatory, graduating in 1981.

Discography

*''New International Trio'' (Atomic Theory) *''Way Up North'' (Hungry Hill Records) *''Piper's Crow'' (Piper's Crow) *''Big Music for Northumbrian Smallpipes'' (Ten Thousand Lakes)

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References

American folk musicians Living people Players of Northumbrian smallpipes Säckpipa players 1959 births {{US-woodwind-musician-stub