In 2010, renowned pipe maker and restorer, Blue MacMurchie of West Calder, Scotland, was asked to refurbish a set of pipes that belonged to a solider who was killed playing them just before the Great War ended. Blue wrote the following account in the November 2010 Piping Times: By Blue […]
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Pioneers of bagpipe notation
The literature of the Highland bagpipePioneers of bagpipe notation – Angus MacKay (Raasay) By Captain John A. MacLellan Much of the early bagpipe music was published by the Glen family who came to Edinburgh from the Kingdom of Fife, just across the Firth of Forth. By the mid-1830s the brothers, […]