The Oban Times, 14 October, 1911 Canntaireachd Salsburgh, by Holytown 9 October, 1911 Sir,–Mr. Grant, in your issue of seventh inst., makes the statement that I claim to be one of two men living who “understand the MacCrimmon secrets.” Would your correspondent point out when and where I made the claim? I only claim to […]
Letters to the Press
Letters to the Press
OT: 7 October 1911 – John Grant “Canntaireachd”
The Oban Times, 7 October, 1911 Canntaireachd 21 Murieston Crescent, Edinburgh 1 October, 1911 Sir,–Your issue of September 23rd contains a reply from Mr. Simon Fraser, Sydney, to my letter of 24th June last on the above subject. Mr. Fraser and Dr. Charles Bannatyne, claim to be the only two men living who know and […]
OT: 23 September 1911 – Simon Fraser
The Oban Times, 23 September, 1911 Sydney, 9 August, 1911 Sir,–In your valuable paper dated June 24th, I see a letter from Mr. John Grant, and with your kind permission I will reply to it. As Mr. Grant does not suggest why Sheantaireachd was altered to Canntaireachd, I will call it by the latter term […]
OT: 24 June 1911 – John Grant “Piobaireachd Composition and Canntaireachd”
The Oban Times, 24 June, 1911 Piobaireachd Composition and Canntaireachd 21 Murieston Crescent, Edinburgh, 19 June, 1911 Sir–Now that I have got my work, “The Royal Collection of Piobaireachd,” completed meantime, published, and put before the public, in my leisure hours I wish to direct my attention to the subject of “Canntaireachd,” or the MacCrimmons’ […]
OT: 24 June 1911 – Boreraig “Piobaireachd and Poetry”
The Oban Times, 24 June 1911 Piobaireachd and Poetry 17 June, 1911 Sir,–In last Saturday’s issue Dr. K. N. MacDonald says: “‘Boreraig’ has also started a wide question in his remarks about poetry and music.” Dr. MacDonald is evidently meaning that vocal music and poetry are intertwined with each other, but instrumental music is quite […]
OT: 17 June 1911 – K.N. MacDonald “The Small Historians and the Highland Bagpipe”
The Oban Times, 17 June, 1911 The Small Historians and the Highland Bagpipe 9 June, 1911 Sir,–In my last letter to “The Oban Times” of the 3rd inst. on the above subject, Giraldus Cambrensis is stated as having written in A.D. 1118. This is an error; so it is in Mr. Manson’s work on the […]
OT: 3 June 1911 – K.N. MacDonald “The Small Historians and the Highland Bagpipe”
The Oban Times, 3 June, 1911 The Small Historians and the Highland Bagpipe Edinburgh, 27 May, 1911 Sir,–The pipe in some form is one of the oldest instruments of music, and it may be safely assumed is as old as the people of the Highlands and the Celts generally. But the “Great Highland Bagpipe,” in […]
OT: 3 June 1911 – Boreraig “Cumha Dhonnachaidh Mhic Iain”
The Oban Times, 3 June, 1911 Cumha Dhonnachaidh Mhic Iain 29 May, 1911 Sir,–Would you kindly make the following correction in my letter of 22nd inst., viz.:–I said: “In one setting an odd bar is given in the ground, with 6, 6, and 5 bars.” This should read: “in one setting an odd bar is […]
OT: 27 May 1911 – Sassenach
The Oban Times, 27 May, 1911 22 May, 1911 Sir,–I cannot refrain from admiring “Morag’s” enthusiastic Highland patriotism, but I regret that I cannot admire either his (or her) knowledge of the subject in dispute, or even of the ordinary rules of argument. “Morag” seems to think that the mere assertion of a string of […]
OT: 27 May 1911 – Morag
The Oban Times, 27 May, 1911 22 May, 1911 Sir,–I have read your correspondent, Colonel John MacGregor’s letter, which appears in your issue of last week. He reproduces a paragraph which appeared in some newspapers. I attach no importance to this information, nor the find either. Colonel McGregor says:–”The bagpipe chanter is certainly the instrument […]
