First published last year in West Highland Notes & Queries, (Volume 4. Number 2), it is probably worth reprinting on this site as an example that the great piping names of the past would not[…]
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Author: Keith Sanger
Who was Black Donald ?
Piobaireachd Dhomnuill Duibh (Black Donald’s March), in the original form and especially from it’s adaption into a 6/8 military march, is one of the more generally known titles both among pipers and the more general[…]
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Was there a William Gunn manuscript?
The painting shown of Michael McCarfrae, piper to the Duke of Hamilton stands out from all the other early portraits of pipers being the only one which also shows his small collection of pipe music.[…]
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Turning back the clock ?
Although it is possible to turn back a clock, in reality it does not turn back time; the earth still continues rotating around the sun as it always has done. The stimulus for this article[…]
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‘Piobaireachd Cheann Deas, or the Earl of Ross’ March’
The background to this tune has produced much speculation over the years with its Gaelic named version usually linked to the place of that name in Ross and Cromarty, about five miles NNE of Alness.[…]
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Living Piobaireachd: a piping conundrum
‘Living’ piobaireachd implies the present and progress or movement into the future. This has been the essence of a number of recent articles on this site; for example the involvement of a scientific approach to[…]
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Competitions - ‘The devil is in the detail’
It is impossible to deny the central position occupied by competitions in today’s piping world. Nor that it is a subject that has led to many firmly held opinions, as evidenced by this website. When[…]
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