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 cauld-wind (bellows-blown)

bagpipe Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, No ...

s of Northern England and south-east Scotland, such as the

Scottish smallpipes The Scottish smallpipe is a bellows-blown bagpipe re-developed by Colin Ross and many others, adapted from an earlier design of the instrument. There are surviving bellows-blown examples of similar historical instruments as well as the mouth-bl ...

pastoral pipes The pastoral pipe (also known as the hybrid union pipes, organ pipe and union pipe) was a bellows-blown bagpipe, widely recognised as the forerunner and ancestor of the 19th-century union pipes, which became the uilleann pipes of today.Brian. E. ...

, and

border pipes The border pipes are a type of bagpipe related to the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe. It is perhaps confusable with the Scottish smallpipe, although it is a quite different and much older instrument. Although most modern Border pipes are close ...

. The organisation holds events and competitions, supplies instructional materials, and publishes a journal, ''Common Stock''. The title of the journal refers to the array of drones on Lowland bagpipes, which are grouped together in a "common stock" rather than separately attached to the bag, such as on the

Great Highland bagpipe The great Highland bagpipe ( '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 Armed Forces, British mili ...

. The society has played a key role in the success of the revival of the bellows bagpipe traditions of Scotland.

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