June 14, 2025

S 09 E 15 Robert Miller's 1838 Highland Bagpipe Manuscript with tune from Dàimh

1 hour 1 minute

Tunes:

Miller: Bundle and Go, The Highlandmen come over the Hill, The Plunder of the Lowlands now Grazes in the Glens, Glengary’s Strathspey, MacLeod Fencibles Quick March, The Bonniest Wife this side of Lord Reay’s Country, Gather and Go, Kiss and Come Again, The Piper he died cauld in a barn, As I was Kissd yestreen, MacLeod’s March,

Jeremy Kingsbury: When the King Enjoys His Own Again/The World Turned Upside Down,

Simon Fraser: The Plunder of the Lowlands now Grazes in the Glens,

Dàimh: Harris Dance (track).

Andy M. Stewart: Dinny The Piper

William Ross: MacLeod’s March

George S. MacLennan: The MacLeod’s March

Thank you to Keith Sanger for sending me the Manuscript to look over and play from.

Big thank you to Dàimh! Check out their album here:

https://daimh.bandcamp.com/album/the-hebridean-sessions

Sources:

1838: Bundle and Go, The Highlandmen come over the Hill, The Plunder of the Lowlands now Grazes in the Glens, Glengary’s Strathspey, MacLeod Fencibles Quick March, The Bonniest Wife this side of Lord Reay’s Country, Gather and Go, Kiss and Come Again, The Piper he died cauld in a barn, As I was Kissd yestreen, MacLeod’s March,

From Robert Miller’s 1838 “A Collection of National Music for the Great Highland Bagpipe set by Mr. Robert Miller, Musician for John C Cameron, Piper and Pipe Maker, Dundee 1838.

Courtesy of Keith Sanger.

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1816: The (Spraith) or Plunder of the Lowlands now Graze in the Glens from Simon P Fraser’s The Airs And Melodies Peculiar To The Highlands Of Scotland And The Isles https://archive.org/details/airsmelodiespecu00fras/page/n43/mode/1up?view=theater

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Listen to A Great Highland Bagpipe setting of Plunder of the Lowlands (or Old Man’s Calf) that avoids the Cs all together here on Kist of Riches:

https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/25962?l=en

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For More info on Dinny The piper check out:

https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/dinnythepiper.html

check out the album here:

https://store.compassrecords.com/products/dublin-lady?srsltid=AfmBOopPhYlYu_QUS2HZZN4jTJarIINW8t3Xn9VphHsuZ5ohO02gkefO

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1869+: McLeod’s March from William Ross’s

https://ceolsean.net/content/WRoss/WRoss_TOC.html

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1929: The McLeod’s March from George S McClennan’s Highland Bagpipe Music

https://ceolsean.net/content/mclennan/MacLennan_TOC.html

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June 14, 2025

S 09 E 15 Robert Miller's 1838 Highland Bagpipe Manuscript with tune from Dàimh

1 hour 1 minute

Tunes:

Jeremy Kingsbury: When the King Enjoys His Own Again/The World Turned Upside Down,

Simon Fraser: The Plunder of the Lowlands now Grazes in the Glens,

Dàimh: Harris Dance (track).

Andy M. Stewart: Dinny The Piper

William Ross: MacLeod’s March

George S. MacLennan: The MacLeod’s March

Thank you to Keith Sanger for sending me the Manuscript to look over and play from.

Big thank you to Dàimh! Check out their album here:

https://daimh.bandcamp.com/album/the-hebridean-sessions

Sources:

From Robert Miller’s 1838 “A Collection of National Music for the Great Highland Bagpipe set by Mr. Robert Miller, Musician for John C Cameron, Piper and Pipe Maker, Dundee 1838.

Courtesy of Keith Sanger.

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Listen to A Great Highland Bagpipe setting of Plunder of the Lowlands (or Old Man’s Calf) that avoids the Cs all together here on Kist of Riches:

https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/25962?l=en

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For More info on Dinny The piper check out:

https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/dinnythepiper.html

check out the album here:

https://store.compassrecords.com/products/dublin-lady?srsltid=AfmBOopPhYlYu_QUS2HZZN4jTJarIINW8t3Xn9VphHsuZ5ohO02gkefO

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1869+: McLeod’s March from William Ross’s

https://ceolsean.net/content/WRoss/WRoss_TOC.html