Julian Goodacre Bagpipe Maker

A gathering of bellows ...

This pìob mhòr brings together a set of 18th century drones and Highland piping’s most precious relic, the chanter of Iain MacAoidh, Am Pìobaire Dall (1656–1754), ‘the lad who outstripped MacCrimmon’. The originals are in the museum of the National Piping Centre, Glasgow.

Take a tour of my workshop

The art of making a bagpipe ...

Some of me pipes!

My Leicestershire Smallpipes

English Great Pipes modelled on an early 15th century illustration from a namuscript edition of Chaucers' Canterbury Takes.

My Border Bagpipes; modelled on an 18th century set from Peebles now in the Piping Centre Museum, Glasgow.

My Cornish Double Pipes: modelled on a 16th century carving in the church at Altarnan, Cornwall

The Montgomery Bagpipes; modelled on an 18th century set now in the Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.