List of bagpipe makers

This is a list of bagpipe makers. It covers both family-based and commercial outfits from the 17th century to the present era. In the 1950s, the bagpipe traditions of Europe were revived. The market is increasing in size as the popularity of the instrument is increasing, and the list of bagpipe makers is rising.

British Isles pipes

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Firm	Name	Location	Apprenticed	Retired	Notes	Refs
Unknown	James Ramsay Oswald	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	1941	2003	One of only ten bagpipe makers in Australia.
Dunbar Bagpipe Maker Ltd.	Rick Pettigrew, Barry Dunbar, Jacquie Dunbar	St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada			Founded by Jack Dunbar of Glasgow in 1985
John Walsh Bagpipes Ltd.	John Walsh, Tom MacMillan	Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
The Burley Bagpipes Company	Graham Burley	Naramata, British Columbia, Canada
Lee & Sons Bagpipes	Jack Lee, Andrew Lee	Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Macbeth and Co. Bagpipes	Martin MacBeth	Brisbane, Australia	1990s		Began in Brisbane 2010?
Fisher Bagpipes		Sarnia, Ontario, Canada			Self-taught pipemaker. One of only a handful of bagpipe makers in Canada.
American Bagpipe Makers Inc.		Dobbs Ferry, New York, US	1987?
Rolf of Sweden		Sweden	1990s		Custom made bagpipes: Great Highland Bagpipes, Smallpipes, Practice Chanters. Self-taught pipe maker.
William Sinclair and Son		Edinburgh, Scotland	1926
MacLellan Bagpipes		Zebulon, North Carolina, US	1988		Zebulon location began operations in 2023. The only business in North America to make, sell, and teach how to play bagpipes.
McCallum Bagpipes Ltd.		Kilmarnock, Scotland
O'Mahony Warpipes	James O'Mahony	Cork, Ireland	1914?		From Mitchelstown in Cork. Maker of Fiddles and Warpipes.
O'Keeffe Warpipes	O'Keeffe	Tippperary, Ireland	1910		Is said to have been one of the first makers of Warpipes in Ireland in the 20th century. Prior to that Warpipes weren't known to have been made since 1870.
O'Crowley Music	Tadhg & Denis Crowley	Cork, Ireland	1920	1952 1966	Brother's Tadhg and Denis Crowley made Warpipes, Highland Pipes, and Uilleann pipes in Cork.
David Naill & Co., Ltd.	Leslie Cowell	Somerset, England			Founded 1976. Makers of Scottish Bagpipes, Smallpipes & chanters.
Peter Henderson Ltd.	Peter Henderson	Glasgow, Scotland	1868	1972	One of the famous Scottish bagpipe makers. Merged with R. G. Hardie & Co. in 1972.
R. G. Hardie & Co.	Robert G. Hardie	Glasgow, Scotland	1950

[Uilleann pipes]

Firm	Name	Location	Apprenticed	Retired	Notes	Refs
Unknown		Philadelphia, PA	1840-1872	1901
The Burley Bagpipes Company	Graham Burley	Naramata, British Columbia, Canada
Unknown		Philadelphia, PA	1840-1872	1902
		Boston, Massachusetts	1910	1958
	Leo Rowsome
	Bruce Childress	Maine

Scottish smallpipes and borderpipes

Firm	Name	Location	Apprenticed	Retired	Notes	Refs
Fisher Bagpipes		Sarnia, ON			Self-taught pipemaker.
	Hamish Moore	Dunkeld		X
	Fin Moore	Dunkeld			Smallpipes, Borderpipes and Bagpipes
Fred Morrison Smallpipes					Smallpipes and Borderpipes manufactured by McCallum Bagpipes Ltd
The Burley Bagpipes Company	Graham Burley	Naramata, British Columbia, Canada
John Walsh Bagpipes Ltd.	John Walsh	Antigonish, NS			Smallpipes, Great Highland Pipes, and Shuttlepipes.
Iona Bagpipes	Bill Hart	Sydney, Australia			Smallpipes, Scottish Double Smallpipes

[Northumbrian pipes]

Name	Firm	Location	Apprenticed	Retired	Notes	Refs
		Newcastle upon Tyne	1764	1820	Developed keywork for the Northumbrian smallpipe around 1800
		England	1877	1955
		Wideopen, North Tyneside	1904	1978
		Newcastle upon Tyne	1786	1837
		Newsham	1881	1964
		United Kingdom
William H. Hedworth				1994

Lincolnshire bagpipes

Name	Firm	Location	Apprenticed	Retired	Notes	Refs
		South Somercotes, Lincolnshire

Cornish bagpipes

Name	Firm	Location	Apprenticed	Retired	Notes	Refs

		Peebles

[Shuttle pipes]

Firm	Name	Location	Apprenticed	Retired	Notes	Refs
John Walsh Bagpipes Ltd.	John Walsh, Tom MacMillan	Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada

Continental European pipes

Armenian bagpipes

Name	Firm	Location	Apprenticed	Retired	Notes	Refs

Estonian bagpipes ([torupill])

Name	Firm	Location	Apprenticed	Retired	Notes	Refs
		Estonia

French and German pipes

Greek Bagpipes

Name	Firm	Location	Apprenticed	Retired	Notes	Refs
	La Ponta				Venetian Tower Greek bagpipe exhibition-workshop

Swedish bagpipes ([säckpipa])

Name	Firm	Location	Apprenticed	Retired	Notes	Refs
		Sweden
		Sweden