The Lowland and Border Pipers' Society was formed in the early 1980s to promote the study and playing of cauld-wind (bellows-blown) bagpipes of Northern England and southern Scotland, such as the Scottish smallpipes

Scottish smallpipes

The Scottish smallpipe, in its modern form, is a bellows-blown bagpipe developed by Colin Ross and others, to be playable according to the Great Highland Bagpipe fingering system. There are surviving examples of similar historical instruments such as the mouth-blown Montgomery smallpipes in E,...

, pastoral pipes

Pastoral pipes

The Pastoral 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...

, and border pipes

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...

. The organisation holds events and competitions, supplies instructional materials, and published 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

Great Highland Bagpipe

The Great Highland Bagpipe is a type of bagpipe native to Scotland. It has achieved widespread recognition through its usage in the British military and in pipe bands throughout the world. It is closely related to the Great Irish Warpipes....

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