Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
01-13-2021, 10:41 AM
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Replies: 4
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Re: John McIntosh
Well in the newspaper report on the Braemar Gathering for that year there was a John Mackintosh, Derry. who got second for the Highland Dancing Competition?
Keith
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Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
12-24-2020, 08:05 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 603
Re: History of the practice chanter?
The earliest evidence for a 'professionally made' practice chanter (Feddan), that I know of comes from the household accounts for Cameron of Locheil in 1740. From the context of the rest of the...
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Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
10-25-2020, 02:26 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,071
Re: Samhain Bagpipes?
Jeremy that picture is brilliant, now I know what to do with my big nose. I suspect the blowpipe will also deal with earwax problems but I am not sure about the nether regions.
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Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
10-25-2020, 02:23 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 346
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Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
10-24-2020, 03:24 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 346
Re: Celtic Society from Donald MacDonald Quickstep
I would suspect that it is what is known today as 'The Royal Celtic Society' founded as the Celtic Society in 1820. The timing is about right and they were known for their annual Celtic Ball which...
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Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
09-14-2020, 01:02 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,578
Re: Who invented the bagpipes?
For the name see here
https://www.academia.edu/7519753/Whats_in_a_Name_the_background_to_when_the_description_Highland_Pipes_was_first_used
For adding tenor drones and the earliest evidence for...
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Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
09-01-2020, 07:13 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,578
Re: Who invented the bagpipes?
Moving back to seriousness when looking at the origins of any sort of pipes a recent news story adds some spice.
The use of bone to make wind instruments including bagpipes goes back quite a way....
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Forum: Beer Tent
07-26-2020, 04:13 PM
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Replies: 45
Views: 9,802
Re: Bagpipe woods
I suppose the problem here is the fact that the term 'bogwood' tends to be a generalisation for all manner of woods found in bogland conditions. The stricter definition is the remains of century old...
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Forum: Beer Tent
07-26-2020, 03:43 AM
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Replies: 45
Views: 9,802
Re: Bagpipe woods
Genuine 'bogwood' would certainly not be suitable for pipemaking. Indeed to make anything from it requires it to be worked while still wet as once it dries out it is brittle and can often be mistaken...
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Forum: Beer Tent
07-25-2020, 09:42 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 589
Re: Early Canntaireachd Recordings
If you go to Tobar an Dualchais and enter Canntaireachd in the search box or try via this link below there are several tunes recorded around the 1950's so the sources would be older than that
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Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
07-22-2020, 04:20 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,578
Re: Who invented the bagpipes?
Arguments such as who first 'invented' the bagpipe are usually best avoided but with 'lockdown' having deprived me from burying myself in archives the mood is reckless.
The chances of the bagpipe...
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Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
07-18-2020, 02:33 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,578
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Forum: Technique & Instrument
07-01-2020, 05:44 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 2,496
Re: Kilgour Edinburgh pipes
Oddly Jeannie Campbell's books on bagpipe makers has little to say on the Kilgour simply including them as a sort of add on to Robertson.
I am not sure if it is of any help but shortly after the...
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Forum: Beer Tent
06-15-2020, 02:59 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,822
Re: The Sheepwife
Well I am not sure who composed it or gave it that name but as you can find it here in Donald MacDonald's publication of 1826 it is well out of copyright
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Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
06-09-2020, 02:14 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 797
Re: Donald MacDonald Collection
[QUOTEThanks for responding, I'm so excited to read the biography![/QUOTE]
Don't get too excited, nothing Roddy or I wrote was easy reading and we both have a fetish for multiple footnotes. Still...
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Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
06-08-2020, 04:27 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 797
Re: Donald MacDonald Collection
The question posed is a little confused but reading between the lines it is possible to identify the points at issue. I would not describe the biography of Donald MacDonald covered in the two edited...
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Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
06-02-2020, 08:39 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 618
Re: Macrimmon shall never return author
The definitive explanation of the background to this tune including the various Gaelic and Scots songs was by V. S. Blankenhorn 'Traditional and Bogus Elements in MacCrimmon's Lament', published in...
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Forum: Piobaireachd
05-28-2020, 12:50 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,861
Re: Alt Pibroch Club?
It is I understand a temporary hitch due to forgetting that it needed a change of controller following the late David Hesters demise. The distraction caused by the coronavirus did not help.
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Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
05-08-2020, 06:32 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,382
Re: War Office Order 1854
Not quite what I said which was that by the time of the original post inquiry of 1854 the earlier practices would have still been around although with the slow but ever grinding administrative...
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Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
05-08-2020, 03:44 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,382
Re: War Office Order 1854
Sorry, an example of being divided by the same language, I have only just realised that is a question. So with lockdown time on my hands I will try and give an answer, albeit a long winded one. Since...
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Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
05-06-2020, 09:30 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,382
Re: War Office Order 1854
War Office letter of the 28/1/1854 PRO WO3/115/387 is the one you want for the establishment of one Pipe Major at one shilling and ten pence per diem and five pipers at one shilling and a penny each...
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Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
05-03-2020, 08:16 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 2,957
Re: perceptions on horse hair
Talk of the devil as the saying goes. This item, unfortunately without the very good scan of the actual document which was used for illustration, comes from the latest 'Retour', the newsletter of the...
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Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
05-01-2020, 03:54 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,636
Re: The Holinshed Texts
It is good to have source the original and posted it and it along with the whole thread raises the problem of looking back with a modern world viewpoint. Looking back over the thread to the start...
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Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
04-27-2020, 01:52 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,636
Re: The Holinshed Texts
You do not need a French etymological dictionary as you will find it in the Oxford English dictionary. The first citation there is for Chaucer circa 1384. It will have entered 'English' via Norman...
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Forum: History, Tradition, Heritage
04-26-2020, 09:35 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,279
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