Robin Andrew’s excellent series on George Moss calls to mind another 20th century piper, Dr. Barrie Orme, whose playing style also lay outside the mainstream and seems to represent a survival of earlier practice. It[…]

Analyzing MacIntosh’s Lament (PS 200), Allan MacDonald identified this pibroch as quite possibly “one of those few keens that have survived in the pibroch tradition.” (See his thesis.) He has also recorded his stunning interpretation of[…]