This site is sponsored by Canterbury of New Zealand.
4 Rathbone Street, Whangarei.
The site is kindly hosted by Online Designs of Whangarei.
Click on the thumbnail at above for an interactive map.
Find the location of all the Pipe Bands in New Zealand!
Clicking on a link opens a new window.
Visitor Information - Whangarei.
Attractions and activities, events, happenings and general city information - A quick look at Whangarei City.
The Waipu Caledonian Society Inc.
Home of the Waipu Highland Games held annually on the 1st January each year since 1871.
(except when the day falls on a Sunday, then it is held the following day)
Click Here for the compeditive piping & drumming entry details.
The Royal New Zealand Pipe Bands Association.
News, Calendar, Contests, NZ Bands, Centres, Publications, Education, College.
NZ Piping and Pipe Band Forum.
Discussion on everything pipe band. Announcements, Loose Tongues, Competitons, Buying and selling, Solos, Piobaireachd.
Piobaireachd & piping related information from the antipodes.
The Piobaireachd Society (U.K.).
The society which encourages the study and playing of piobaireachd, the classical music of the Highland bagpipe.
A one hour monthly radio program. Features both solo and pipe band competitive piping from Scotland.
Gary West provides a one hour radio program each month. Slightly more international than CoP radio.
This site is for the drum section - Event Reports, Popular Scores, Drumming Certificates, Drum Tuning.
Whangarei District Brass Band..
The Whangarei District Brass are very old friends of the Pipe Band - This is a link to their homepage.
Baked Bean Music Writing Software.
Simple music software writer for the highland bagpipe. Free trail or phurchase a full version.
A commonly used piece of software for the Great Highland Bagpipes.
Files with the .bww extension are viewed using this software.
Bob Dunsire's Original Bagpipe Web Directory.
This site has over 3,000 links to bagpiping sites.
Thank you to the members of the pipe band who have contributed time, effort, photographs and memories to this project.
This site is maintained by James Payne.
Please email any information you feel should be included on the site.
Any comments about the site are appreciated.
