Compiled by Andrew Payzant (APayzant@aol.com) and Ewan Macpherson (macpherson@waisman.wisc.edu). Further contributions welcome!
A.J. Ellis (1885): "On the musical scales of various nations", Journal of
the Society of Arts, vol.33, 485-527.
This is a very long paper describing numerous tunings from around the
world. The results of the measurements of the bagpipe scale (using tuning
forks) are dismissed in Lenihan and MacNeill (1954) in part because "the
piper was an Englishman"!
G.E. Allan (1940): "The Musical Scale of the Highland Bagpipe", Philosophical Magazine, vol.29, 154-161.
J.M.A. Lenihan and S. MacNeill (1954): "An Acoustical Study of the Highland Bagpipe", Acustica, vol.4, 231-232.
C.M. Harris, M. Eisenstadt, and M.R. Weiss,(1963): "Sounds of the Highland Bagpipe", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol.35, 1321-1327.
A.R. Carruthers (1977): "Sound radiation characteristics of the Highland
bagpipe in open air", Acustica, vol.38, 153-156.
Includes polar dB patterns for various notes on the chanter and the
drones.
I.M. Firth and H.G. Sillitto (1978): "Acoustics of the Highland Bagpipe Chanter and Reed", Acustica, vol.40, 310-315
A.R. Carruthers (1978): "Pitch Changes in the Sound of the Highland Bagpipe", Acustica, vol.41, 46-50.