Taorluath

Bagpipe sheet-music studio

Write, hear, and print Highland pipe tunes.

A focused notation editor for the Great Highland Bagpipe and practice chanter - and pipe-band drums too. Beat-perfect beaming, gracenotes & embellishments, gapless playback, and clean PDF output. One purchase, one activation key.

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Built for pipers

A few of the things it does - see them all on the features page.

Beat-based beaming

Sub-crotchet notes barred by beat with correct beam counts and partial beams.

Gracenotes & embellishments

Doublings, throws, birls and High G birls with proper placement rules.

🥁 Drum scores

Write pipe-band drum parts in Berger uniline notation - snare, tenor and bass, with rimshots and rests.

Gapless playback

Real bagpipe & chanter samples - notes ring right up to the next note.

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Thank-you to the following people for making Taorluath possible:

• Pipe Major Donald MacLeod,
• My great father, Vladimir Ferreira,
• My wonderful mother, Olga Ferreira,
• Titus Aulin,
• and the North Okanagan Pipes and Drums.

Without you lovely people and your amazing inspiration, I would not be where I am today. I am forever greateful.
Thank you!