TUNES FOR EVERY OCCASION
The music on this website can be played online and is also downloadable. The manuscript music can be downloaded as a printable pdf. All these tunes are original, and have creative commons licences. They can be freely used with attribution to Neil Whitehead, piper, New Zealand.
These tunes are all on Soundcloud.
To play a track, click on its red play button OR choose the "play in browser" option (if it appears). If you want to download a track, Soundcloud will require you to set up a free account if you don't aleady have one. Click on the small Soundcloud logo, top right (which will become orange). This will take you to the track on SoundCloud. Underneath the waveform find the ...More button and choose "download file". The track will download to your computer's designated downloads folder.
To download a track's manuscript music click on the manuscript music. If you have a pdf reader your device will open the manuscript file. You can either save the pdf or download it using tools in your pdf reader.
An irregular jig named after a folk music duo, called Twisty Willow, in Waipu, New Zealand. The tune twists around itself like the stems of the Tortured Willow or Corkscrew Willow tree.
The Land Golden and Forever is found in a New Earth. The tune is meant to represent something of great value that endures
Composed in memory of Malcolm James Hyland. The form is a traditional ¾ retreat – a kind of military regrouping. Life goes on with the occasional low note…..
I found this tune, Remembrance, by Pipe Major Richard Anderson when I was unexpectedly asked to play at an Anderson funeral in New Zealand. I made the discovery that the Anderson Clan was based very close to my own clan headquarters near the Scottish border.
A name given to God by Muslims Jews and Christians
A march dedicated to a long-term friend, Dr Donald Fraser, of Strathclyde, Scotland
This is derived from another tune called The Hag at the Spinning Wheel. What better name then than Daughter of the Hag?
A pipe tune composed to celebrate the fourth reunion of the Feilding Agricultural High School Upper Sixth class of 1968
Written for the owner of a Bed and Breakfast on the "wild" West Coast of NZ where we stayed briefly. She called her place the Readers' Retreat. She was delighted to have her own original tune.
For Briar’s 75th birthday –A bright reel commemorating at least 27000 sunrises.
An arrangement and alteration of Handel's famous piece from the Messiah
These cousins live in Omarama - well-known in NZ for its gliding championships.
In memory of a 31 year old nephew who died tragically.
For the funeral of Rev Peter Armstrong, of Magnetic Island, Townsville, who was attracted to the greatest magnet of all.
Heaven is spicy
On the occasion of Peter Marshall's 21st birthday.
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A tune composed for a friend at the launch of her book about beautiful blue pearls emerging from life's hardships
A well known Irving Piper lives near Gretna Green in Scotland
For a remarkable woman with the Scottish surname Stewart
Composed for a housewarming for our Irish neighbour, Penny
To celebrate my wife, Briar’s 75th birthday. This tune has exactly 75 notes, which forces a 5/4 time signature.
A humorous piece that stops abruptly when the ornament falls to the floor and breaks! Ornament has a double meaning of course.
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