News A 2 of Donald MacDonaldVolume 2 Book Now Available


N O T H E R new piping book is Volume the Donald


M a c D o n a l d Manuscript edited by Roderick Cannon and Keith Sanger.The book is published by the Piobaireachd Society and is available from the CoP Shop priced £30. Volume 1 and Volume 2 can be bought together for £40.The book was launched at the Clan Donald Quaich competition last month.Roderick Cannon paid tribute to his daughter Fiona (pictured above with her father) who was responsible for the acclaimed design and layout of the book.Roderick said he hoped the book would ‘feed the imagination’ of pipers in years to come and he said that though controversial, the Donald MacDonald books contained nothing that should be seen as ‘derogatory to the living tradition of piobaireachd playing’.The new book will be reviewed in the PipingTimes in due course.


18th century makers Nicholas Kerr in Edinburgh and James Munro in Edinburgh and Inverness. There are several new 19th century makers such as John Scorgie in NewYork in 1817, James Sharp in Aberdeen 1828-63, George Shearer in Australia in the 1840s, John MacPherson in Glasgow in the 1850s, George S MacKay in Aberdeen in the 1880s and Alexander Rae in Banff also in the 1880s. Some makers who had only a line or two in the first book have now been expanded to several pages and in many cases illustrations of instruments have been added. Among the early makers are new illustrations of


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bagpipes made by Donald MacKay 1840-1850, Roderick MacLeod 1887-91, Robert Nicol 1872-74, Muir Wood & Co c1803, Malcolm MacGregor


1810-25,


John


MacDougall of Dundee c1820-30 and John Cameron of Dundee 1838- 59. For makers already covered in great detail in the first book there are now additional


illustrations of


instruments by Duncan MacDougall, Thomas Glen, Peter Henderson,R G Lawrie, James Robertson and others. Bagpipe making was not always, perhaps, a dull yet


respectable


occupation. The first edition had an accusation of rape, an elopement and


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