Swedish bagpipes

Links

Makers

• Alban Faust
• Jan Nordkvist
• Börs Anders Öhman

• Magnus Högfeldt
• Max Persson

• Anders Fagerström (electronic bagpipes!)

Abroad

• Boris Favre (Vancouver, Canada)
• Matthias Branschke (Germany)
• Seth Hamon (Texas, USA)

Cane suppliers

• Alliaud Roseaux

Pipers and groups

• Alban Faust (*)
• Anders Norudde (*) (Hedningarna, Blå Bergens Borduner)
• Anna Rynefors (*) (Dråm, Svanevit)
• Bengt Sundberg (*)
• Boe Lindberg
• Erik Ask-Upmark (*) (Dråm, Svanevit)
• Gustav Olai (Själ, Lekstugan)
• Harald Pettersson (Lure)
• Jan Winter
• Olle Gällmo (*)
• Per Gudmundson (Frifot)
• Sabina Henriksson
• Stefan Ekedahl (Blå Bergens Borduner)
• Stefan Kayat (Herr Arnes Penningar)
• Thomas Steenweg (Duo Noordwest)
• Ulf Karlsson (*) (Blå Bergens Borduner)

(*) = Riksspelman on Swedish bagpipes. Riksspelman is an honorary title which in this case, on bagpipes, would translate to "piper of the realm".

Information resources

NFSS in Gagnef 2009

• Nätverket för svensk säckpipa (NFSS, in Swedish) - a kind of Swedish bagpiper's association.

• Piping.se. A bagpiping forum (in Swedish). Mostly about Irish (Uilleann) and Swedish pipes.

• NSAA forum. A forum (in English) on Swedish bagpipes.

• Björn Mittmesser has written a hand book for beginners on Swedish bagpipes (in German, free to download).

• Other sources of Swedish traditional music (not necessarily suitable for Swedish bagpipes) can be found on the net. RFoD (Riksföreningen för folkmusik och dans), for example, has a nice collection of links