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Pastoral Pipes ISSN 1352-3848 June 2016 VOLUME 33 NO.1 THE JOURNAL OF THE LOWLAND AND BORDER PIPERS’ SOCIETY IN THIS ISSUE From the Archive (2); Annual Collogue (5); New Compositions (12); Pastoral Pipes (14); O’er the Dyke (21); Brighde Chaimbeul (25); Haky Honey (29); Transposition (31); The Bagpipe Map (40); Sugar Candie (41); Expanding the Duet (42); Na Piobairi Eile (44); Event Reports (50); Forthcoming Events (55) President Iain MacInnes Secretary Colin Macaldowie Chairman: Judy barker Membership Pete Stewart Treasurer Allan Sturrock THE JOURNAL OF THE LOWLAND AND BORDER PIPERS’ SOCIETY EDITORIAL [email protected] elcome to what is my thir- pages, a fact made worse by the inca- teenth issue of Common pacity of our usual photographer Gra- W Stock as editor. I confess ham Barnes, leaving me with a selection that it has been one of the most difficult of my own less than professional at- to compile. Some items here came to- tempts at recording the events that gether easily enough; it was a delight, have occurred so far this year (plus for instance, to be able to meet and talk some more superior ones of the com- with Brighde Chaimbeul. Her award, petition from Rona Dawson and Jane and the new step it represents in the Moulder, for which many thanks). status of the smallpipes it achieved, are It was with some pleasure therefore to be warmly applauded. Added to that I realised that I had begun work on which the articles submitted by Hugh this issue almost exactly 35 years after Cheape and Dave Singleton looked as the first mention of a Lowland and if they might generate a feature on the Border pipers gathering first appeared pastoral pipe, but little else was forth- in the press; I transcribed the content in coming and it is an area of bellows December 2011 but I was unaware at piping into which I have not ventured. the time that the Society archive held a So, after an inter-Editor exchange with copy of the original issue of The Inter- Jane Moulder (I sent her an article on national Piper in which the article ap- 17th century English bagpipe music peared; I make no apologies for and she sent me her report on the printing a facsimile. competition) I was left facing 34 blank The views expressed in Common Stock are those of the contributors and not necessarily those either of the Editor or of the Lowland & Border Pipers’ Society. The contents of Common Stock are protected by copyright. None of them may be reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner. The copyright in the individual contributions belongs to their authors and the copyright in each edition of the magazine as a whole belongs to the Society. ] Cover image: Brighde Chaimbeul (photo:kirstieedwards.co..uk) had hoped to include a full re- of the Lowland and Borders; it proved port on the International Bagpipe too much. After one or two extended I Conference held at the end of discussions on the LBPS FaceBook February in the National Piping Centre, page it became clear any attempt to Glasgow. It was certainly a varied and describe a repertoire could only lead to wide-ranging collection of papers that contention; at that point my will failed. were presented. The Lowland and Bor- I haven’t completely abandoned this der tradition was to some extent repre- notion however; it may well come sented by a paper given by Paul Roberts round in the next issue, so I welcome amalgamating material which has pre- any thoughts on the topic - ‘what is the occupied him for some years and some appropriate repertoire for the Lowland of which has been published in past or Border piper today? Is this a ques- issues of this Journal; I was also, as were tion worth asking? a good many others, much entertained by a paper from Roger Landes on ‘Self- n a similar topic, I noticed a Othering’, an intriguing concept which question very recently from turns around the cultural scientists’ no- a highland piper new to the tion of ‘othering’, the wilful distancing O bellows pipes asking where he might of certain social groups, to face those find the repertoire for his smallpipes. self-identified social anomalies who One answer was that he should go to create a distinctive identity of their the LBPS website; I confess I felt rather own; the English bagpipe revival was ambiguous about that answer; it is a identified as one such, much to the long while since the Society produced a delight of a good number of its propo- collection and scholarship has moved nents present. We also had papers from on considerably; it is high-time, it seems Bulgaria, Croatia, Portugal, France and to me, for a new ‘choice collection’. elsewhere, plus a well-received intro- duction to Pibroch from Jack Taylor, which many said had opened ears for- inally, a huge thankyou to those merly closed to that art. who at the last minute came up Unfortunately the promised publica- F with the articles they had prom- tion of the papers seems yet to manifest ised, thereby turning what had threat- itself. You can, however, follow up the ened to be a trial into a pleasure, Bagpipe Map Project, which was launched at the Conference; (see page Pencaitland, May 20 2016 40). had also imagined including in All correspondence, contributions, this issue an in-depth investiga- suggestions for articles are welcome. tion into the status of the music I Send them to [email protected] 1 The International Piper, 12 April, 1981 2 Thirty years on, it’s fascinating to compare the tunes that were played in the LBPS competition in 1986 with those played this year. Smallpipes Mike Ward The Mousewald Tragedy/The Beggar Man/The Carles o Dysart David Taylor Freedom Come All Ye/Jocky said to Johnny [sic]/Robin Shure in Hearst/Kenmure’s Up an Awa/Coorie Doon/Drink the Water and Spill the Beer[sic]/ The Carles o Dysart Hamish Moore Country Dance/ Drink the Water and Spill the Beer[sic]/ Drops o Brandy/The White and the Yellow Barrel Gordon Mooney Lament of the Border Widow/The Cat that Chased its Tail Iain MacInnes Highland Laddie/Wooed and Married an A’/Hay Ca Thru/Ranting Roaring Willie/Hunt the Hare Andy Hunter The Cockle Gatherers/The Gallowa Hills/ Rattling Roaring Willie Jeannie CampbellO Gin I were a Baron’s Heir/Teribus/Willie’s Gone to Melville Castle/Skinner’s Cradle Song/ The Border Jig Lowland Pipes David Stevenson Mary Scott/Noble Lord Dacre/The Dawning of the Day Paul Roberts Soor Plums O Galashiels/Drops o Brandy Gordon Mooney Johnny Armstrong/O’er the Border David Hannay Christmas Day in the Morning/Haste to the Wedding. The Piper’s Prayer/I’ll Gae Nae Mair to Yon Toon/The Hen’s March over the Midden Pipe duet Mike Ward & Andy Hunter Bonny Glenshee/Jamie Gilchrist/ Drops o Brandy Paul Roberts and Gordon Mooney Mary Scott/Keelrow Hamish Moore & David Taylor Lonely Loch nan Eun/Rock and wee Pickle Tow/The Miner’s Greyhound Jeannie Campbell & Andrew Sharp Skye Boat Song/10th Highlanders Crossing the Rhine Mixed duet Gordon & Barbara Mooney [flute] Can ye Sew Cushions/The Piper’s Wedding Andy Hunter & Mike Ward [harmonium] Macpherson’s Lament/a Man’s a Man/ Dun- can Gray/Blue Bonnet Iain MacInnes & Patsy Seldon [clarsach] Inverness Gathering/ Little Cascade 3 hile browsing through the ed him with an example of organised LBPS archive for thirty commitment to a particular instru- W years ago I came across a ment, his own motivation to act was a cutting from Piping Today. It has no strong, personally-felt frustration that date, unfortunately, but is in the form a unique Scottish tradition seemed to of an interview with Mike Rowan, have totally died out. So he called the founder of the Society. It opens with meeting of 29 march 1981 to test the this paragraph: interest in launching a revival of the “The flourishing revival of the Low- Lowland pipes; land Scottish pipes, and the establish- “People turned up…The connecting ment of the Lowland and Border factor was that they were all really Pipers Society, can be said to date from excited about the prospect of seeing the afternoon of Sunday, 29 March for the first time a Scottish tradition 1981. That was when a meeting was which had all but gone. It was very held at The Folk Festival Club, Teviot exciting.” Row House, Edinburgh, with the ex- This, of course, was the meeting that press aim of regenerating interest in is reported in the article form The the Lowland pipes.” International Piper, reproduced on Later in the article Mike Rowan ex- page 2.. The piping Today piece how- plains how it started. Having explained ever, went on to say something about that it was his creation of ‘Big Rory’ the consequences. Having acknowl- that had led him to learn the pipes. ‘My edged the role played by Jimmy Wilson piping is atrocious. Duncan Johnstone in providing some kind of link with a had a go at me and made no headway pre-WWII tradition, Mike reflected on at all’ he commented; the way things developed. “But I was excited by the pipes in the “... it’s the smallpipes which have real- first place. I’d go to museums quite a ly taken off… I think the major reason lot and I noticed these Lowland pipes is that they fitted into a totally up and which were quite different from any- running folk music repertoire and thing you could hear at the time in scene.” Scotland.
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