“A Hundred Pipers”-Scotland becoming Cosmopolitan-The War spirit of the Pipes-Regiments, not Clans-Annual Gatherings-Adaptability of Pipes-Scots folk from Home-An aged Enthusiast-Highlands an Extraordinary Study-Succession of Chiefs-Saxon introduced-Gaelic printed-Highlands in 1603-The Mac Neills of Barra-Highland hospitality.Īncient musical instruments-Priestly harpers-Hereditary harpers-Irish versus Scottish harpers-Royal harpers-Use of harp universal-Welsh sarcasm-Mary Queen of Scots’ harp-The last of the harpers-“The Harper of Mull”-From harp to pipes-The clarsach-Pipes supplanting bards-The last clan bard-Bardic customs-Bards’ jealousy of pipes-The bard in battle-Duncan Ban Mac Intyre-Two pipers scared-When the pipes became paramount-The fiery cross-The coronach. Library of Celtic literature, did very much to lighten my The Celtic Monthly, in throwing open to me his valuable (“Fionn”) in matters of Highland history and questionsĬonnected with the Gaelic language, the book could hardly This may not be done, I cannot possibly refrain from saying Viiisubject on which they have intimate knowledge, that oneĬould not do justice to all without naming all. Requests, kindly supplied matter dealing with phases of the Or suggesting improvements, so many have, in reply to So many have written giving additional bits of information With men it isĮqually impracticable to give names. Of course common to all Highland literature, and one bookĬannot be quoted more than another.
Subject even in the most indirect way has been consulted, It were vain to attempt to acknowledge indebtedness toīooks or to men. There is nothing more to be said on that point. These, afterīeing finally recast, revised, and in several cases re-written,Īre now in the form of a book flung at an unoffending With very little of the biographical in them. Too interesting to be left unused, and the half-dozenĪrticles of the original commission became twenty-seven, The necessary investigation produced a mass of material Herald half-a-dozen biographical articles on famous pipers. Its inception in a commission to write for the Weekly This book was not written on a preconceived plan, drawn
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