About Myal Pyper


	About
About In School School Sessions Historical Settings Weddings & Parties Testimonials Bagpipe Music Myal's Pipes Contact Links Videos		Myal Pyper is a Living Historian who specialises in the life and music of the common folk of the 15th and 16th centuries.
		Myal works in schools and historical venues, banquets, parties and weddings bringing the life and sounds of the medieval and Tudor periods to you.
		Although Myal is happy to work alone, he usually works as part of a duo. The second person drums and helps to teach dance, act and interact. This format is the ideal for most situations, be it for the education of children or the entertainment of adults.
		Myal also often works with Tudor Travellers who can supply many more re-enactors if you wish.


	The person behind Myal Pyper
		Mark Harper has been a Tudor re-enactor and working with the public and school children since 1993. But previous to this and to the present he has worked within the field of music and the music industry. From the mid to late 90s he performed as part of the duo “Two Little Boys” who took their raucous brand of foot tapping folk all over the UK and Germany, finally parting company after a near fatal accident in that country seeing Mark in hospital for 6 months. However, on return to the UK in 2000, he was straight out gigging although by the mid “Noughties” he found that he was being drawn more and more to the bagpipes as the instrument most likely to be expressing his art. As well as playing Mark is a sound technician, engineering the sound for a couple of bands that he has worked with for many a year and stills tours with a couple of times annually. As a historical interpreter or re-enactor he may regularly be seen taking part in the country's foremost recreation of Tudor life at Kentwell Hall, in Suffolk.
	When he is not making music, Mark might be found making instruments. He has made harps, lyres, fiddles and of course bagpipes. In 2009 he was commissioned to make a lyre for the Anglo Saxon Village Museum at West Stow in Suffolk (right). He also makes many of the trappings for his living history encampment and no one who knows Mark would forget to mention that he is a maker of the finest mead.