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The Master Pipers
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 28 2026
Pages: 324
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the villages and forests of eighteenth-century France, music is more than entertainment. It is a calling, a rivalry, and a way of life.
Joseph has always seemed different from the people around him-quiet, solitary, and ill at ease with the ordinary expectations of village life. But when he discovers the haunting power of the bagpipe, something awakens in him. What others have mistaken for weakness may be the mark of an extraordinary musical gift.
Drawn beyond his native Berry into the wilder country of Bourbonnais, Joseph enters the secretive world of the master pipers, musicians whose traditions are guarded by pride, competition, and ancient custom. Around him, the lives of his childhood companions become entwined with his own: friendships deepen, jealousies emerge, and love takes unexpected turns.
Against a richly drawn landscape of forests, farms, village dances, and wandering musicians, George Sand tells a story of artistic passion and the price of pursuing it.
The Master Pipers is a vivid tale of music, love, ambition, and belonging-and of the restless spirit that drives an artist to seek something beyond the life laid out for him.
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