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Something New first. A couple of months ago I wrote about an incipient new piobaireachd resource I had discovered while speculatively trawling the web – a site of performance downloads from Roddy MacLeod, M.B.E. Roddy is one of the World’s top pipers and is the Principal of the National Piping Centre in Glasgow. His piobaireachd . . . → Read More: Piobaireachd Resources – Something Old, Something New At this point I have access to over 100 different piobaireachd tunes, gleaned from various sources – many freely available on the web. I have decided to spend some quality time with a few of the tunes for which I have multiple performances, to get a handle on how different pipers interpret the tunes. Ken Eller, . . . → Read More: The Old Men of the Shells – A Watery Grave The Bob Dunsire Forums are a mine of interesting information, beyond being a simple meeting place for pipers and drummers. I recently started a discussion thread at the forums asking for more information about “The Lost Pibroch”, the story I wrote about last month. That thread has been the scene of some interesting discussion and today . . . → Read More: Lost – several pibrochs. If found, please return to the present. Lovers of piobaireachd should definitely check out BBC Radio Scotland’s Pipeline show this week. The star of the show this week (10th November, 2007) is a beautiful performance of a tune that actually has no name. I suppose this is an artifact of oral transmission, but many tunes in the ancient piobaireachd canon have . . . → Read More: Cherede Darievea – the tune with no name I’m not sure if this is old news, but today I came across an incipient website from Roddy MacLeod, M.B.E., the principal of the National Piping Centre in Scotland. It looks as if Roddy is going to be making available recordings of his own performances of piobaireachd. The contents of Volume 1 have already been posted. . . . → Read More: New Piobaireachd Website When I wrote about Peg Kingman’s new novel “Not Yet Drown’d” earlier this month I created a new category, to include it and the Cynthia Thayer novel “A Certain Slant of Light”, since I could hardly believe that there would be more than one novel written about piobaireachd. Turns out I should remove my tongue from my . . . → Read More: Piobaireachd stories – no joking matter! |
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