In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
B&D Renaudin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> Would anyone know where this second name (Jig Brest St Marc ) for G
> Larsen Thunderhead comes from?
Yes. Some Scottish pipers learned the tune from a piper in Brittany,
and assumed it was a local traditional tune, so they called it after a
local town, Brest St Michael. It was taken up by many pipe bands from
there, gathering variations of the names, among them "Jig Brest St
Marc".
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Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland
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