Letters
What a surprise for me when I read
these lines because the young lady
coming from a part of France,
Orléans,Bob Nicol talked about was
me!MyweddingnamewasBellégoat
that time. To day I use my first
surname Lore.
I had never known before today
that such report existed! I worked
veryhardatmypiping–thatitisthe
truth.I was so motivated at the time
that George Crawford offered to give
mehelptoimprovemypiping.Iwent
to him several times at Roseneath
where I practiced a lot with his
drummers. George then introduced
me to Donald MacLeod, as you can
see the picture in front of the
Grainger and Campbell pipemaker
workshopinArgyleStreet,Glasgow.It
was in 1973 when there was the
Anne with Donald MacLeod and
world petroleum crisis. We had no
George Crawford
heat, no power . . . just we need to
move our fingers, playing pipes and Country Girl
drum to keep warm! I realise today Sir,
that these were very early days in a Regarding the continued
happypipinglife.Ijuststartedthento correspondence about the ‘Country
understand pipe music. I had some Girl’ tune, recently I played ‘Den
lessons from Donald MacLeod one- Toppede Hone’ (on whistle) for a
to-one and on tapes. I recorded my Danish friend at a dance event.
tunes to be corrected by him for Immediately French and Breton
nearly two years.Then I carried on people present said ‘Cochin Chine’.
thesamewithJimmyMacIntoshafter So far as I can tell,the tune and the
hecameovertoBrittanybecauseBob dance,under different names,are the
Nicol had not a good health. sameinDenmarkandFrance(though
I am proud today to be able to there is also a different dance,to the
play the pipe and, thanks to all of same name but with a different tune,
those named before, to play the in Denmark).
piobaireachd.On one of the pictures OnScottishbagpipeIhaveplayed
the wee boy is my son Gildas who is for both the Danish and the French
now40andisaviolinmaker.Heplays dance,startingoneitherHighAoron
the cello on my piobaireachd CD E. It works well. It may be worth
‘Piobaireachd d’hier ...aujourd’hui’ mentioning that when I finished
AnneLore,Orleans,France taking lessons from the late J.B.
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