In “Cornish Bagpipes: fact or fiction” Harry Woodhouse takes us through the history and known facts about bagpipes in Cornwall, the relationship with other similar instruments and the current revival of interest. Behind Harry’s relaxed style of writing and delightful anecdotes is a very sharp scientific mind bearing on the subject.

Cornish Bagpipes: Fact or Fiction, (Redruth, Dyllansow Truran, 1994)

Kresen Kernow Shelf number:   785.19 Cornish arts

 

 

 

Harry Woodhouse was born in St. Austell in 1930 and went from St. Austell Grammar School to Queens’ College Cambridge where he obtained his M.A. in Natural Sciences. He spent most of his working life as a manager for English China Clays, and his last job was to set up their Pacific office in Singapore where he lived with his wife until his retirement back to Cornwall.

An enthusiastic musical amateur, he played the clarinet with the Cornwall Symphony Orchestra and other Cornish orchestras for over twenty years, and with a group of musical friends, he gave lectures/recitals for charity about the “Old Church Gallery minstrels” who played in our churches and chapels before they had organs. He is a member of the Galpin Society, plays the serpent and the ophicleide and is a bard of Gorsedh Kernow.

Cornish Bagpipes: Fact or Fiction. p.9