An update by Geoff Hore 2008-2015. The writing in black font is from A Bibliography of Bagpipe Music. The update comments are in blue font.

 

1 1981

Nothing is known of edition 1 at this time. The date of publication (1981) is recorded in the later editions.

2 1983

Front Cover

p [I], title; p II, dedication; p III, foreword; p IV, The Practice Chanter; p V, contents; p VI, Listing of Tunes; pp 1-35, tutor; pp 36-41, tunes (10), p [42], About the Author..

• The Author’s Collection. 2 77mm x 215mm.

The title-page lists this as edition 2 and the date 1983. The Foreword and publishing history on the Dedication page has same date, however, in editions 4 and 5, the date is given as 1984. The publishing history in this and the subsequent editions states that this is a revised edition.

3 1985

Nothing is known of this edition other than what is written in the publication history in editions 4 and 5.

4 1985

Front cover

p [I], title; p II, dedication; p III, foreword; p IV, The Practice Chanter; p V, contents; p VI, Listing of Tunes; pp 1-35, tutor; pp 36-41, tunes (10), p [42], About the Author..

• The Author’s Collection. 277mm x 215mm.

This book is identical to the 2nd edition except for the details describing it as edition 4.

5 1987

Front cover

p [I], title; p II, dedication; p III, foreword; p IV, The Practice Chanter; p V, contents; p VI, Listing of Tunes; pp 1-35, tutor; pp 36-41, tunes (10), p [42], About the Author..

• The Author’s Collection. 277mm x 215mm.

This book is identical to edition 2 except for the details describing it as edition 5.

 

• Rev 00 (12 October 2011)

© Geoff Hore 2011