The Oban Times, Saturday, 10 June, 1911 The Great Highland Bagpipe in Its Music Salsburgh, by Holytown 5 June, 1911 Sir,–” Morag” quotes me as having said in a lecture that the bagpipes were unknown in the Highlands of Scotland till the end of the sixteenth century. I never said so. What I said was […]
Letters to the Press
Letters to the Press
OT: 10 June 1911 – Boreraig “Cumha Dhonnachaidh Mhic Iain”
The Oban Times, 10 June, 1911 “Cumha Dhonnachaidh Mhic Iain” 3 June, 1911 Sir,–In the correspondence columns of your issue of this date I see a correspondent, Mr. MacLennan, Edinburgh disputing a statement that I have made under this heading “that piobaireachd has nothing whatever to do with poetry.” As Mr. MacLennan does not dispute […]
OT: 10 June 1911 – Boreraig “Piobaireachd and Poetry”
The Oban Times, 10 June, 1911 Piobaireachd and Poetry 5 June, 1911 Sir,–As your correspondent, Mr. John McClellan, wishes to hear more from you regarding piobaireachd and poetry, I hope you will permit us to thrash it out under a heading for ourselves, and not molest the whole of the members of the Clan MacRae […]
OT: 3 June 1911 – Morag
The Oban Times, 3 June, 1911 29 May, 1911 Sir,–The subject of our discussion here is shrouded in the mists of antiquity. The curtain has fallen long, long ago, on the scenes of old, when the Highland bagpipe and piobaireachd were in their infancy, and I do not profess to be the one who can […]
OT: 3 June 1911 – Loch Sloy
The Oban Times, 3 June, 1911 27 May, 1911 Sir,–It gives me much pleasure to again contribute to your valuable columns upon the above subject, and to do my utmost to support the truly native claim that the bagpipe is most decidedly a Highland instrument. British history cannot help us much because numerous indeed are […]
OT: 3 June 1911 – John MacLennan “The Great Highland Bagpipe in Its Music”
The Oban Times, 3 June, 1911 The Great Highland Bagpipe in Its Music Edinburgh, 29 May 1911 Sir,–On reading “Morag’s” letters, along with that of “Loch Sloy,” in your widely- circulated paper, considering the patriotic object they had in view, viz., “to raise their noble and famous instrument to a much higher position than it […]
OT: 2 June 1911 – John Grant “Piobaireachd” (poem #2)
The Oban Times, 2 June, 1911 Piobaireachd Hail! Glorious ancient piobaireachd, Thou patriotic theme. Wake from thy fairy slumbers, Once more upon us gleam. Great music of our fathers, Can we, or time, destroy A heaven-born gift nature, In life and death their joy? The Fairy Queen has vanished, MacCrimmon is no more; Imaginative […]
OT: 2 June 1911 – John Grant poem “Piobaireachd”
The Oban Times, 2 June, 1911 Piobaireachd The piobaireachd of our warpipe, With all its mystic lore, Shall live for endless ages– We’ll play it o’er and o’er. We bless the Highland minstrels Who brought it first to light; They’ve sent us an example, We grasp it with delight. They brought it to perfection, […]
OT: 27 May 1911 – Charles Bannatyne “The Great Highland Bagpipe and Its Music”
The Oban Times, 27 May, 1911 The Great Highland Bagpipe in Its Music Salsburgh, by Holytown, 20 May, 1911 Sir,–Your correspondent, “Morag,” today asks me to prove a negative to the following statements made by him in your issue of 6th inst.:– (1). That the bagpipe was in the Highlands in the year 100 A.D., […]
OT: 27 May 1911 – Boreraig [John Grant] “Cumha Dhonnachaidh Mhic Iain”
The Oban Times, 27 May, 1911 “Cumha Dhonnachaidh Mhic Iain” 22 May, 1911 Sir,–I am deeply interested in the art of piobaireachd, and more especially the origin and history of the many tunes which we have no record of. I have read with great interest the various letters which have appeared in “The Oban Times” […]
