The Oban Times, 2 August, 1930 Controversy Cape Town, South Africa, 4 July, 1930 Sir,–A great deal has been written in your columns in recent years about and the correct method of playing certain taorludh movements. The controversy arose, if I am not mistaken, from the fact that one of your correspondents noticed that Angus […]
Letters to the Press
Letters to the Press
OT: 26 July 1930 – Consistent “Toarludh and Crunludh Movements in Piobaireachd”
The Oban Times, 26 July, 1930 Toarludh and Crunludh Movements in Piobaireachd London, 21 July, 1930 Sir,–We are asked to accept the statement, made in your last issue by Mr. Somerled MacDonald, that the Canntaireachd vocables for the Toarludh beat contain but one syllable! When Mr. MacDonald can really satisfy us that the words “hin-dir-in,” […]
OT: 19 July 1930 – A. MacPherson “The MacCrimmons and a Monument”
The Oban Times, 19 July, 1930 The MacCrimmons and a Monument Inveran Hotel, Invershin, Sutherland, 10 July, 1930 Sir,–I would like to ask Mr. John Grant through the medium of your esteemed paper by what authority he is supported when he makes such a vague and unfounded statements regarding the MacCrimmons of Boreraig and their teaching. […]
OT: 5 July 1930 – Somerled MacDonald “Taorluadh and Crunluadh Movements in Piobaireachd”
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 […]
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 […]
