By ANDRA NOBLE Roderick – Roddy – Sutherland Ross, who died in Grimsby, Lincolnshire on August 13, 2016, aged 95, was a well known name in piping. He was a noted piper and author of Binneas is Boreraig, the acclaimed six-volume work on the piping of Malcolm Macpherson. Roddy, pictured […]
Transcribed by Norman Matheson We continue with our interview with Angus MacPherson, Invershin, conducted by Dr. John MacAskill in 1970. So he [Calum Piobair] played light music too, not only ceòl mòr?Yes, of course. He went to Paris on one occasion for a competition and got first for strathspeys and_ […]
Transcribed by Norman Matheson Angus MacPherson (1877-1976), a father figure in the piping world of his day, was one of the five sons of the renowned Malcolm MacPherson (Calum Piobair) who was piper to the MacPherson clan chief at Cluny Castle near Laggan. In 1898 Angus MacPherson, aged 21, became […]
