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a parish register entry of a birth by ‘ante nuptial fornication’. More stories have been added. In 1873 bagpipe maker Peter Henderson of Edinburgh was called as an expert witness to identify a piece of green cord found at the scene of the crime when piper Henry Reid was accused of murdering William McCallum. There is a case of a stabbing in 1893 in the workshop of bagpipe maker Robert MacKinnon when two of his sons quarrelled. One brother was carted off to the Royal Infirmary and the other to the Northern Police Office. In another case in 1897 bagpipe maker George Crichton was apprehended in Cowcaddens, dancing in the street while drunk and incapable, or as he put it himself ‘in a glorious state’.One would not want a
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bagpipe he made on the following morning. Since the publication of my first
edition many people around the world, Piping Times readers and contributors, College students and visitors to theMuseum of Piping have supplied
further
information,
photographs and price lists. Their names are included in the sources for each section. Some even sent bagpipe parts, pipe chanters, practice chanters or other bits and pieces. All such donations have been deposited in the Museum of Piping where they and many other instruments pictured in the book can be seen free of charge by those wishing to make a closer examination of the various items. The new edition will be about
100 pages longer than the original and now covers a total of 124 bagpipe makers.A new section covers people known to have been employed as bagpipe makers but not included in the main text as the identity of their employers
is not known. The
introductory section has been expanded too, with additional information on the manufacture of bagpipes and on the materials used. I would like to make a special
mention of Keith Sanger as without his generosity in sharing with me so much information from his own researches,very little would be known on some of the early makers. Finally, I would like to thank
Stuart Letford who has done a massive amount of work over the recent months in preparing this book for publication and in patiently suffering my constant emailing of extra snippets of information and
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