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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It says The Late Duke of Windsor and I always assumed this was the former
Edward VIII who succeeded to the throne in 1936, abdicated so he could marry
Wallace Simpson, and died in 1972 after spending the rest of his life in
France. According to Wikipedia, the title Duke of Windsor was created
The Late Duke of Windsor was quite proud of the fact that he could play
the Highland Pipes. Although since Victoria and Albert fell in love
with the Highlands and bought Balmoral, there had always been a piper
who woke them up every morning, in their day it was definitely an NCO
job. When the
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
