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Old and New World Highland Bagpiping (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History)
 
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Old and New World Highland Bagpiping (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History) (Hardcover)

by John Gibson (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 456 pages
  • Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press (2 Nov 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0773522913
  • ISBN-13: 978-0773522916
  • Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 16.1 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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"Gibson presents an overall view of piping patronage among the Scottish clans which has only been dealt with piecemeal in the past. Such a general survey has not been done before in such a comprehensive manner." Peter Cooke, School of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh "Gibson's is a voice which deserves to be heard on the history of the highland bagpipe. His passion for the subject shines through on every page and there can be no denying his knowledge of the sources for piping history, in Gaelic as well as in English and other languages. He has produced another book of great learning." David Waterhouse, University of Toronto, and long-time piping student of late P/M John Wilson (Edinburgh), and was formerly in the Pipes and Drums of the 48th Highlanders of Canada.

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Old and New World Highland Bagpiping provides a comprehensive biographical and genealogical account of pipers and piping in highland Scotland and Gaelic Cape Breton. The work is the result of over thirty years of oral fieldwork among the last Gaels in Cape Breton, for whom piping fitted unself-consciously into community life, as well as an exhaustive synthesis of Scottish archival an