The Oban Times, 23 October, 1915 Edinburgh, 16 October 1915 Sir,–Seeing the heading “The Chanter Scale” in “The Oban Times,” I hoped for something informing, but found elementary quibbling. What many chanter scales have is practically key of A, with flat seventh (more or less according to fingering employed and the boring of the intervals, […]
Letters to the Press
Letters to the Press
OT: 23 October 1915 – Donald MacRae
The Oban Times, 23 October, 1915 Aberdeen, 16 October, 1915 Sir,–I have read with great interest the description of the Highland bagpipe scale given by your correspondent “J.P.M.,” and am of opinion that his is the correct interpretation of it. Mr. Grant and Mr. Sinclair both maintained that the bagpipe scale is the diatonic scale […]
OT: 23 October 1915 – Colin Sinclair
The Oban Times, 23 October, 1915 Glasgow, 17 October, 1915 Sir,–On further investigation on the subject, I find that, on my practising chanter, the upper G note is sharp, while on the complete instrument this note loses its sharpness, and almost reaches G natural. I am aware that the practice chanter in my possession may […]
OT: 23 October 1915 – Calum MacPharlain “The Chanter Scale”
The Oban Times, 23 October, 1915 The Chanter Scale Elderslie, 9 October, 1915 Sir,–this correspondence has drifted away from the subject on which it started. Perhaps it is as well–and I am not objecting. Let me say at once that “J. P. M.” Raises its level why along degree, and there is now no place […]
OT: 16 October 1915 – John Grant
The Oban Times, 16 October, 1915 27 Comely Bank Street, Edinburgh, 11 October, 1915 Sir,–Your correspondent Mr. MacPharlain has now got away from Gaelic Song And the Bagpipe, and now begins on the above heading, still exhibiting lack of knowledge in the bagpipe chanter scale. I am proud to say that I have said the […]
OT: 16 October 1915 – Colin Sinclair “The Chanter Scale”
The Oban Times, 16 October, 1915 The Chanter Scale 35 Clifford Street, Glasgow, 10 October, 1915 Sir,–If my conception of musical sound the normally correct, and a rudimentary practical experience of the bagpipe and “open Sesame” to your columns on the subject, I would pronounce the following series of notes to embrace the compass of […]
OT: 9 October 1915 – Simon Fraser
The Oban Times, 9 October, 1915 No. 6 Verner Street, South Geelong, Australia, 2 August, 1915 Sir,–I had just received the issue of your valuable paper containing Mr. Grant’s reply to my last letter, and by the same mail a letter from Mr. Duncan MacDonald, Bordland House, Dunlop, Ayrshire, Scotland, who says: “I believe in […]
OT: 9 October 1915 – Patrick Og “Piobaireachd & MacCrimmon Canntaireachd”
The Oban Times, 9 October, 1915 Piobaireachd & MacCrimmon Canntaireachd 2 October, 1915 Sir,–I am very much interested in piobaireachd, and I hope you will grant me a very small space in your valuable columns to ask one question: Is there anyone alive who knows anything about the real MacCrimmon notation? In one of your […]
OT: 9 October 1915 – J.P.M. “The Bagpipe Scale”
The Oban Times, 9 October, 1915 The Bagpipe Scale Tain, 1 October, 1915 Sir,–Your correspondent, Mr. MacPharlain, in giving his impression of the Bagpipe scale as being the modern scale of D major, beginning on the fourth note (fah) and proceeding nine notes upwards, ending on the fifth (soh) of the modern scale, errs in […]
OT: 9 October 1915 -John Grant
The Oban Times, 9 October, 1915 27 Comely Bank Street, Edinburgh, 4 October, 1914 (sic) Sir,–I am sure your readers must all be aware by this time that Mr. MacPharlain cannot answer the question that has been so often put in. He refers to some Charlie whom he seems to know, who would only play […]
