{{Short description|Scottish musician and bagpipe maker}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Use British English|date=July 2017}} '''Hamish Moore''' is a Scottish musician and bagpipe maker. Among Moore's contributions to Scottish music are his development of a revived form of the bellows-blown Scottish smallpipes; his 1985 recording of the Lowland and smallpipes, ''Cauld Wind Pipes'', was the first contemporary complete recording of this instrument.<ref name="Sawyers2001">{{cite book|author=June Skinner Sawyers|title=Celtic Music: A Complete Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mWZHwOShyyUC&pg=PA106|year=2001|publisher=Da Capo Press|isbn=978-0-306-81007-7|page=106}}</ref><ref name="Sawyers2001-8">{{cite book|author=June Skinner Sawyers|title=Celtic Music: A Complete Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mWZHwOShyyUC&pg=PA98|year=2001|publisher=Da Capo Press|isbn=978-0-306-81007-7|page=98}}</ref> In the 1980s and 1990s, Moore was also instrumental in exploring the links between the Scottish diaspora music of Canada's Cape Breton Island, and earlier Scottish traditions.<ref name="Ray2005">{{cite book|author=Celeste Ray|title=Transatlantic Scots|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s21P1NneeXEC&pg=PA183|year=2005|publisher=University of Alabama Press|isbn=978-0-8173-5240-0|page=183}}</ref> Moore taught at Cape Breton's Gaelic College of Celtic Arts and Crafts, and in 1996 returned to South Uist, Scotland, to form his ''Ceolas'' musical summer school, which included Cape Breton instructors and influences.<ref name="Dickson2009">{{cite book|author=Joshua Dickson|title=The Highland Bagpipe: Music, History, Tradition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JOfk2YpundEC&pg=PA206|year=2009|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-0-7546-6669-1|page=206}}</ref>
Hamish is father of Fin Moore, also a Scottish smallpiper and border piper.
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==External links== *{{official website|http://www.hamishmoore.org}}
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