The Oban Times, 5 July, 1930 Taorluadh and Crunluadh Movements in Piobaireachd Inverness, 25 June, 1930 Sir,–Some time ago Mr. Simon Fraser, of Australia, suggested that the teachers of Piobaireachd in this country were misleading their pupils by teaching them to play “Taorluadh” and “Crunluadh” without the superfluous A. Mr. Simon Fraser claims to have […]
Month: April 2012
OT: 5 July 1930 – John Grant “The MacCrimmons and a Monument”
The Oban Times, 5 July, 1930 The MacCrimmons and a Monument Edinburgh, 27 June, 1930 [sic– probably 28 June, 1930] Sir,–I am very loth to raise my voice or lift my pen against the fulfilment of any worthy object, and more specially against anything that would keep alive the genuine spirit of the MacCrimmons. In […]
OT: 28 June 1930 – “The MacCrimmons – Proposed Memorial”
The Oban Times, 28 June, 1930 The MacCrimmons —————— Proposed Memorial —————— The Peers Among Pipers Highland Scotland is the home of pipe music, and the MacCrimmons were its greatest exponents. Some years ago there was a movement to have a suitable monument erected to their memory in Skye, but it had to be postponed […]
OT: 21 June 1930 – Consistent “Taorluadh and Crunluadh Movements in Piobaireachd”
The Oban Times, 21 June, 1930 Taorluadh and Crunluadh Movements in Piobaireachd London, 16 June, 1930 Sir,–Referring to Mr. Somerled MacDonalds letter in your issue of 14th inst., one might ask him if nothing to elucidate the question of the middle A can be learnt from Canntaireachd? One unquestionable point learned from the vocables, […]
OT: 14 June 1930 – Somerled MacDonald “Taorluadh & Crunluadh Movements in Piobaireachd”
The Oban Times, 14 June, 1930 Taorluadh & Crunluadh Movements in Piobaireachd Inverness, 14 May, 1930 Sir,–The adherents of the superfluous A in “Taorluadh” and “Crunluadh” seem to have ignored the principle of playing all cuttings and strikes according to scale. You cannot have a cutting and a striking group the same scale–as MacKay has […]
OT: 14 June 1930 – Kintail “Piping Notation”
The Oban Times, 14 June, 1930 Piping Notation 26 May, 1930 Sir,–A statement made by your correspondent, A. K. Cameron, last week has attracted my attention. In talking of bell-ringing Mr. Cameron goes on to say that the “modern form of the Taorluadh is wrong. See Lieut. MacLennan’s and the Piobaireachd Society’s notations for these […]
OT: 21 May 1930 – J.D.R. Watt “Bells of Inverary”
The Oban Times, 21 May, 1930 “Bells of Inverary” 17th February, 1930 Sir,–I beg to enclose for your piper readers the Pat Mor MacCrimmon vocables, also the words [Luke II., 10-11] to the theme of my recent tune, “The Bells of Inverary,” printed for me by Peter Henderson Ltd., Glasgow. This cancels some vocables sent […]
OT: 21 May 1930 – A.K. Cameron “Piobaireachd – Bells of Perth”
The Oban Times, 21 May, 1930 Piobaireachd ” Bells of Perth” Broadus, Montana, 25 April, 1930 Sir,–Your correspondent, Mr. Somerled MacDonald, is of the opinion that a different form of the Taorluadh movement was used by the old pipers in the variations of the tunes, i.e., a mutilated form of the GDG grip, but there […]
OT: 10 May 1930 – A.K. Cameron “Piobaireachd Notation”
The Oban Times, 10 May, 1930 Piobaireachd Notation Broadus, Montana, U.S.A., 1 April, 1930 Sir,–As your correspondent, Mr. Somerled MacDonald, makes much of what he finds in Joseph MacDonald’ s Tutor, it would be interesting to us to know what he thinks of the notation in the ungraced tune at page 34 of Joseph’s book. […]
OT: 1 March 1930 – A.K. Cameron “Piobaireachd Playing”
The Oban Times, 1 March, 1930 Piobaireachd Playing Broadus, Montana, U. S. A., 25 January, 1930 Sir,–Your correspondent “Kintail” asked me if I have heard the late G. S. MacLennan playing pibroch as it was written by his father, Lieut. MacLennan. Yes, I have; but I never heard him playing pibroch as John Dubh MacCrimmon […]
