Jim McGillivray has just launched a ground-breaking web resource for the bagpiping community. See his announcement here>> and visit Pipetunes.ca to sample hundreds of tunes, and if you like them, you can purchase the sheet music one tune at a time. Jim has big plans for new features, and has obviously worked hard to make the website a good experience and resource for the piping community.
 
From the description on the new web site:
“Download and print individual pipe tunes! On pipetunes.ca you’ll find superb settings of hundreds of traditional tunes, as well as authorized, copyright material from today’s best composers. Browse by listening to excerpts of the tunes. You can also download practice-chanter demonstrations of the tunes by leading piper and teacher Jim McGillivray, as well as by many of the composers themselves.”
Jim McGillivray bio, from Andrew Lenz’s Bagpipe Journey article, Who’s Who in Piping:
(1955 – ) Canadian. World level piper. Started piping at age 11. Author of “Rhythmic Fingerwork” Tutor and two bestselling DVDs, “Pipes Ready!” and “Pipes Up!” which cover pipe maintenance and tuning respectively. Winner of the Northern Meeting Gold Medal in 1985, the Inverness Clasp in 1987 and the Argyllshire Gathering Gold Medal in 1991, among other awards. In 2005, became the first Canadian ever invited to judge at Scotland’s premier Agyllshire Gathering, and in 2006 the first North American to judge at the Glenfiddich Championship. Since 1998 he has taught piping full time at St. Andrew’s College, a private boys’ school in Aurora, Ontario, where he lives. Also a respected player of Scottish Smallpipes, Border Pipes and Northumbrian Smallpipes. Pronounced “Muh-Gill-vree.” Moderator at the BobDunsire.com forums.
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