Hi to All,
Can anyone tell me the origins of the the tune Mallorca (1st NSP Tune
Book), how old it is, and why it was written, and which member of the
Royal Family wrote it?
Best wishes,
Kevin
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Following Dru's mail:
Digging round on the web, I found that the
site [1]http://www.pipetunes.ca/displayproduct.asp?catID9tuneID28 sta
tes that Edward VIII was a piper and wrote this tune, perhaps with some
help from his piping mentor, Willie Ross.
It is variously described
There were two pipers called William Ross. The first was piper to
Queen Victoria from 1854-1891; Edward VIII, as he became, was born
three years later. The other Willie Ross was a top player from before
WW1 to after WW2, and was for many years the chief instructor at the
school of piping. But he
