LETTERS
(do they still come in around lunchtime?) and watched Bob McFie play what to me is a great hornpipe, The Black Dog’s Master. Bob kindly gave me a copy of his score and we conversed by email for some time until I lost contact as a result of computer
Robert Reid Sir, Just a note to say that I recently failure. I have been
meaning to write to you asking after Bob’s health and current playing status, so it was with great delight that I read of his recent success on your blog. Please would you pass on to Bob, if you get the chance, my very best wishes and congratulations on his success (or forward this email to him) and let him know I am still persevering with that tune!With best wishes to all at the CoP who do a terrific job, Andrew Head,Highland Piper’s Society ofWestern Australia, Perth,WA.
h• Thanks for the
messageAndrew.Bob is ale and hearty and still having a tune
every Friday. He passes on his regards to you.
Special Pipes Sir, I had in my possession in Canada
a set of rather plain blackwood Henderson bagpipes which had a small silver shield affixed to the bass drone stock. This was engraved: ‘Presented to / The J.L.G.B. / Pipe Band / by / Michael Alexander / Nov. 1976’. Can anyone shed any light on what this band was named, who Michael Alexander was, and what was the occasion of the presentation of this set of pipes?Many thanks.
Stuart Gray,Clydebank. 44
bought a copy of the College produ- ced CD of P/M Robert Reid and I have thoroughly enjoyed listening to it. Are there any more recordings of Robert Reid available to buy? Is there a biography of Robert Reid that is more extensive than the scattering of articles that have appeared over the last few
years.Thanks and best regards, Allan Harper, Edinburgh
o• We may produce another Reid CD nce the outlay is recouped onVol
1.The
Masters of Piping book has a pretty full chapter on Reid and some of his pupils. It’s available from the CoP Shop price £10.
Siege of Delhi Sir, A few months back there was an
article/or letter about the origins of some pipe tunes. If I remember rightly it concluded by saying that the origins of the Siege of Delhi were not known. Just after the end ofWW2 I was stationed at the Red Fort at Delhi in which there was a museum containing artefacts relating to the period of the siege. One of these was a document
stating that the tune, the Siege of Delhi, had been composed by a bandmaster of an incoming regiment in honour of an outgoing Scottish Regiment which had fought so valiantly during the
campaign.To the best of my recollection the bandmaster was not from a Scottish regiment, and it is surprising therefore that the tune has the feel of a pipe march. I should mention that I was
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