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MacDougall Gillies' Pipes

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MacDougall Gillies' Pipes
ID JSS0629
Title MacDougall Gillies' Pipes
Document Reference MS3088
Format 238 x 300 mm
Medium Handwritten music on lined sheet
Item Type Manuscript
Subject Scottish Bagpipe Music
Item Description Manuscript, in Gavin Greig's hand, of the first tune on page 182 in Skinner's Harp and Claymore Collection. Aberdeen piper John MacDougall Gillies won the Highland Society of London's Gold Medal for Piobaireachd in 1884. (Recordings of his last pupil, William Barrie, made when he was 80, are still available.) This is the final draft, the copy used by the printers when they set the music for publication. Afterwards, the publishers Bayley and Ferguson (London and Glasgow) returned the draft copy to Greig.
Creator James Scott Skinner
Creator Manuscript Gavin Greig
Arranger James Scott Skinner
Associated Dates: Manuscript c.1900
Associated Dates: Publication 1884
Related Images MS2726
Relationships JSS0162, JSS0163, JSS0164
Location University of Aberdeen
Collection Name Harp & Claymore (Argo)
Copyright http://www.abdn.ac.uk/diss/historic/documents/copyright

 

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