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Stories of the Tunes – The Black Mill

Stories of the Tunes – The Black Mill

By James E. Scott The Muillean Dubh [The Black Mill] is a very old tune and, at one time, was well-known and popular all over the Highlands, every piper having it in his repertoire. For some reason, it seems to have gone out of favour in later times and is […]

Stories of the Tunes – My Home

Stories of the Tunes – My Home

By Roderick Cannon This well known air has had a varied history, in the course of which it has become separated into at least two distinct tunes, played on the pipes as a slow march and a jig. It first appears in Patrick MacDonald’s collection of Highland Vocal Airs (1784), […]