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Dynamic Duo

26/08/2008

A great gale of wind is howling around Hazel Wrigley’s home at Orphir overlooking the leaden waters of Scapa Flow. It is blowing so hard that even the mundane task of pegging the washing on the line is an impossibility.

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Eilean Iarmain Hotel on Skye. The Oban Times
 

The Bagpipes Book 12

26/08/2008

In this, the third of a series of articles on the history of the bagpipes,the distinguished Scottish historian and piper, Hugh Cheape, examines the material evidence.

 

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The Campbeltown Courier The Arran Banner
 

Traditional Scotish Fiddling

26/08/2008

Throughout Scotland, Iain Fraser is renowned both for his fine fiddling and for his inspired teaching – twin aspects of his passionate commitment to traditional Scottish fiddle music which is today enjoying a spectacular revival. At his home in the Borders he spoke with Heather MacIlwraith.

 

 

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National Trust for Scotland Old Postcards from Fort William.
 

King of Pipers

22/08/2008

John Burgess distinctly remembers the first sound he heard as a baby. It was his father, or perhaps his grandfather, playing the bagpipes. It was a sound that pleased him greatly. It still does, 67 years on. After a lifetime of playing, Pipe Major Burgess MBE is today revered by many as the greatest piper in Scotland.

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Scottish Field Magazine Craigellachie Hotel on Speyside
 

Phamie Gow's Lammermuir

15/08/2008

Phamie is a Gaelic name. It means 'quietly spoken one' and, I must say, it suits her perfectly. She peeps out from under all that lovely honey-coloured hair and smiles the shy almost self-conscious smile of a young woman who suddenly fi nds herself centre-stage under a very bright spotlight. Critics have hailed her as "one of Scottish music’s most exciting young talents" and so she is

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Sillycat Media The Argyllshire Advertiser
 

The Bagpipes

12/08/2008

If the pipes were being played in Scotland by the 14th century, they may have been more or less unknown in the Highlands before about 1400 although Gaelic society had had its own very rich musical tradition.

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The Town House Company
 

Birnam Oak

11/08/2008

Pete Clark spent three long summer days sitting beneath the mighty Birnam Oak, dabbing away with his watercolours and thinking about the history – the people, the sorrows and the joys that the ancient tree must have witnessed throughout the last millennium. "It can be an eerie experience," he said.

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Scots Music

11/08/2008

The A9 is the road that runs North-South between Edinburgh and Inverness. Brainchild of Capercaillie fi ddler Charlie McKerron, this fi ddle-focused line-up includes Duncan Chisholm, Gordon Gunn and Adam Sutherland accompanied by Tim Edey (guitar and melodeon), Kris Drever (voice, guitar and mandolin) and Brian McAlpine (keyboards).

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Brian McNeill

07/08/2008

As a child growing up in the town of Falkirk, Brian McNeill endured a solitary and profoundly unhappy year as a student fi ddler. Although he says neither of his parents could hold a tune in a bucket, they sent him along to a cranky old teacher who took a perverse delight in beating him over the knuckles whenever he played a wrong note. That turned him off completely.

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Fine Fiddling

Fine Fiddling

06/08/2008

Paul Anderson’s Scots burr is as thick as an Aberdeen sausage. Even when he deliberately slows his speech for the visitor’s unaccustomed ear and uses what he calls “proper English”, a torrent of Aberdonian words come tumbling out in a delightful hotchpotch of Gaelic phrases, Scots, Old English, Flemish and Scandinavian terms, all of which are generally incomprehensible to those unfortunate enough to reside south of the River Dee.

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