It must have been around the year 2000 when I saw the film documentary The Powerful Story of the Great Highland Bagpipe for the first time, played on a VHS player. The media revolution was in full swing, and so the two-part documentary was released a short time later on DVD, the medium of the […]
Music from the Barrel
The photograph conveys an impression of pleasing informality. I came across it in The Book of the Bagpipe by Hugh Cheape, p. 36. Showing a robustly dressed middle-aged gentleman sitting on the wooden post of a gate, his boots placed on a barrel lid. He is playing a chabrette, a tobacco pipe hangs from the […]