>> Just a note to say there is an article of mine in the latest issue of >> "Common Stock" (the magazine of the Lowland and Border Pipers' >> Society) and there will be another one in the next issue.... > May I ask what the articles are about? I'll look forward to the > magazine selling out so that I may read them on your web site (did > you ever put your Dalkeith talk up on the site?).
The first one is an edited-with-wisecracks abridgment/summary of a chapbook poem, "The Piper of Peebles", a colourful piece of Scots diablerie which has rather limited hard information about piping at the time. The second is an extract from the Dalkeith talk, in which I reconstruct what I believe to be the town's anthem from the 17th century; it's also seems to be the earliest-notated piece of Scottish bagpipe music. =================== <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> =================== Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
