

Fort Wayne Scottish Pipes and Drums Band

The Fort Wayne Scottish Pipes and Drums is a competition bagpipe and drum band based in Fort Wayne, Indiana. By drawing on the knowledge and talents of our members we are able to share the music and culture of Scotland with the people of our community. Whether you are an avid piper or drummer or just a casual passerby, the Fort Wayne Scottish Pipes and Drums welcomes you!
Attention:
Lesson and practice schedules have resumed

2023 Schedule
Thursdays from 7:00 pm-8:30 pm: Practice at Jacob's Well Church located at 10707 Coldwater Rd. in Fort Wayne
Michigan City Parade
Michigan City, Indiana
Saturday, March 11, 2:00 P.M.
Cronninger School
Fort Wayne
Thursday, March 16
2:15 P.M.
St. Patrick's Day
Mini parade & twenty-minute concert following at Deer Park Pub in
Ft. Wayne 5:30 P.M.
Mini band at Laycoff's Tavern in
Ft. Wayne, 6:45 P.M.
30-minute set at Mitchell's Sports Bar in Ft. Wayne at 9:00 P.M.
Friday, March 17th
Canterbury Graduation
Fort Wayne, IN.
Friday, June 2nd
Peony Parade
Van Wert, Ohio
Saturday, June 3rd
RiverDrums
Promenade Park, Fort Wayne
Tuesday, June 6th
5:00 P.M.
Patriotic Parade
Michigan City, Indiana
July 1st
Do-Dah Parade
Winona Lake, IN.
Tuesday, July 4th, Noon
Saline Celtic Festival
Saline, Michigan
July 8th
International Village
Three Rivers Festival at
the Freimann Square
parking lot in Fort Wayne
Friday, July 14th
Detroit Highland Games
Livonia, MI.
Saturday, August 5th
James Cultural Plaza
Auburn, Indiana
Thursday, August 17th
7:00 p.m.
Taste of the Arts
Fort Wayne, IN.
Saturday, August 26th
Columbus Scottish Festival
Columbus, IN.
Saturday, September 9th
Johnny Appleseed Festival
Fort Wayne, IN
Sat./Sun. September 16th & 17th
Decatur Highland Games
Decatur IN.
Saturday, October 7th



History
The Fort Wayne Scottish Pipes and Drums was founded in 1986 to promote Scottish heritage and the Great Highland Bagpipe in Northeast Indiana. The band performs at different parades and Highland Games throughout the midwest. We are always looking for new members and offer free lessons to anyone wanting to learn the pipes or drums.
The Great Highland Bagpipe (Gaelic : A' Phìob Mhòr) is probably the best-known variety of bagpipe. Abbreviated GHB, and commonly referred to simply as "the pipes", they have historically taken numerous forms in Ireland, England and Scotland.
A modern set has a bag, a chanter, a blowpipe, two tenor drones, and one bass drone. The scale on the chanter is in Mixolydian mode with a flattened 7th or leading tone. It has a range from one whole tone lower than the tonic to one octave above it (in piper's parlance: Low G, Low A, B, C, D, E, F, High G, and High A; the C and F could or should be called sharp but this is always omitted). Although less so now, depending on the tuning of the player, certain notes are tuned slightly off of just intonation (for example,the D could be tuned slightly sharp for sound effects), but again, today the notes of the chanter are usually tuned in just intonation to the Mixolydian scale with a flattened 7th. The two tenor drones are an octave below the keynote (Low A) of the chanter) and the bass drone two octaves below.
This "A" of the GHB is actually slightly sharper than B-flat, around 480 Hz, and within the realm of competitive pipe bands, seems to get slightly sharper each year. In the 1990s, there were a few new developments, namely, reliable synthetic drone reeds, and synthetic bags that deal with moisture arguably better than hide or older synthetic bags.
For more info on the Bagpipe go to History of GHB