No tunes, just a track of a thunder storm I recorded one night on May of 2025 on an Island in North Carolina.

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1782: The Millers Rant from Aird Vol I

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1782: Quickstep 37th Regt from James Aird’s Collection vol 1

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1782: The Wright’s Rant from James Aird’s Collection vol 1

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1733: The Stool of Repentance from William Dixon from Matt Seattle’s Setting from William Dixon’s Manuscript available here:

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1776: Parth Inch From William Vickers (NOTE G#)

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1810: Welcome to the Town Again, Bonny Lad, Welcome to the Town Again,

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Here is a Link to the Francis Peacock Collection I was excited by:

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1882: Dorrington Lads

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NOTE THAT THE REED IN ZEXUAN'S CHANTER WAS MADE BY IAIN ALLEN

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Patrick’s Hill, Nymph, Wild Irish Man, Ashley’s Ride, all from William Litten’s Manuscript:

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1800?: Rise Lazy Lubber: from James Aird’s Sixth And Final Volume

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1782: Ranting Highlandman from James Aird’s Collection vol 1

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1782: I’ll Touzle your Kurchy, The Lady’s Play Thing or Gen Howe’s March from James Aird’s Collection vol 1

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1782: The Oyster Wives Rant from James Aird’s Collection vol 1

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1782: The Moon and Seven Stars, The Corporal from James Aird’s Collection vol 1

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1800: A Rondo, McFarlane’s Strathspey from Aird’s 6th and final volume https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90484640

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2024: The Lowland & Border Pipers’ Society by Colin Melville

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1812: Miss Mary_____, From Eliza Ross’s Manuscript,

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1776: Old Wagon Way from William Vickers’ Manuscript

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1791: Miss Watson’s Favorite from John Watlen’s Celebrated Circus Tunes

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1812: Eliza Ross’s Unnamed Jig, from Eliza Ross’s Manuscript

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You can see this set on My Album, Cold and Raw here:

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1733: Golden Locks from Matt Seattle’s Setting from William Dixon’s Manuscript available here:

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Checkout Jason's Album Heavy Metal on Bandcamp:

Be sure to come check out the Zoom Tune Session Thursday at 6:30 PM US Central time:

Here is the Facebook Even for the Session:

Sources:

Late 19thc: Napoleon’s March From Henry Stables Cumbria Manuscript by way of Chris Partington and Traditional Tune Archive:

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1854: Up and Waur Them A’ Willie from Angus MacKay’s The Pipers’ Assistant

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1858: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo

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1817: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo from Gow’s 4th Repository

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1854: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo from John McLachlan’s The Piper’s Assistant https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105010534

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1870s: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo from the Glen Edinburgh Collection (Book 2)

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1890s: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo from David Glen’s Collection of Highland Pipe Music (Book 9)

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1821: Pibroch of Donald Dbhu from Donald MacDonald https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hdpWAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA106#v=onepage&q&f=false

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1858: Lochiel’s March

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1880s: Pibroch of Donald Dhu from book five of David Glen's Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music

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1840: Donald Dhu, or Lochiel’s March from Davie’s Caledonian Repository

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1816: Pibroch of Donald Dubh from Alexander Campbell’s Albyn’s Anthology (Lyrics by Walter Scott)

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1828: The Haughs of Cromdale

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1844: The Haughs of Cromdale

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1920: The Gathering of the Clans by PM John Grant from “The Pipes of War” a Collection of Original Pipe Tunes Compose during the Great War 1914-1918 https://ceolsean.net/content/Pwar/Book01/Book01%2014a.pdf

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George Clarke:

'Anecdote of the bravery of the Scotch piper of the 71st Highland Regiment, at the Battle of Vimiero', 1808

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Pipe Major Cameron:

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1995: Thesis: The Relationship Between Pibroch and Gaelic Song: Its Implications on the Performance Style of the Pibroch Urlar by Allan MacDonald’s

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Checkout LBPS’s Weekend of Pipe Music at Dunkeld Scotland, there is a great lineup of musicians and presentations and we’ll get to hang out in Scotland. For more information checkout https://lbps.net/j3site/index.php

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Send me a tune to [email protected] for me to use on the listener submitted episode!

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1808ish: Delvin House, Major Graham, Love & Whiskey or Bob and Joan with Variations, Contented I am, The White Cockade, One Bottle More, Morgiana in Ireland, I had a Horse I had Nae Mair, Dunkeld Hermitage, Why Should Old Acquaintance be forgot, The Humours of Cork, A Man’s a man for a that, Jackson’s Bottle of Punch, We all take a sup in out turn, The Soldier Laddie, The Humours of Passage, Cumbernauld House, The Pausteen Feaun or the Fair Child, All of the tunes from this episode come from O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion

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Episode Cover Art: 'Anecdote of the bravery of the Scotch piper of the 71st Highland Regiment, at the Battle of Vimiero', 1808

1817: Lamentation for the Fallen Heroes of Waterloo (Eb)

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1848: 71st Highlander’s Quick Step From William Gunn’s Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Gunn_TOC.html

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1838: Johnny Cope (or Fly to the Hills in the Morning)

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1843: Johnny Cope From Thomas Glen’s “A New and Complete Tutor for the Highland Bagpipe”

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1843: Johnny Cope From Angus MacKay’s The Piper’s Assistant

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1848: Johnny Cope From William Gunn’s Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Gunn_TOC.html

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1870s: Johnny Cope From David Glen’s Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music Book 2

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1880s?: Johnny Cope From David Glen’s Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music Book 6

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1810: Johnny Cope From O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion vol 3

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2002: Johnny Cope from Margaret Barry:

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1784: I’m Wounded (A Lament) from Patrick MacDonald’s Vocal Airs: (From Perthshire section)

Thomas Pococke Journal of a soldier of the 71st, or Glasgow regiment, Highland Light Infantry, from 1806 to 1815 (Edinburgh: 1819). https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039571487&seq=5

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Seargant Major Dickson, “The Greys at Waterloo: Reminiscences of the Last Survivor of the Famous Charge” Mackenzie MacBride Ed., With Napoleon at Waterloo and Other Unpublished Documents of the Waterloo and Peninsular Campaigns (Francis Griffiths, London: 1911).

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Victor Hugo, “The Battle of Waterloo” Rossiter Johnson Ed. The Great Events by Famous Historians, (The National Alumni, 1905).

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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:

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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,

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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:

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For More info on Dinny The piper check out:

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

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

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I’ve included the written texts I got from folks in the off chance I mispronounced things so badly you won’t be able to connect the threads:

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I’m playing “my first HG was made by luthier Gordiy Starukh of Lviv Ukraine which I bought in 2019. It's a 3 stringer in DG and in a style that dates to the 18th cent. The songs are Un Canadien Errant, the wandering Canadian, which was written in 1842 as a lament for rebels exiled from Canada after the failed Lower Canada Rebellion, 1837-8. The 2nd is A La Claire Fontaine, by the clear Spring, which dates back to 1604 and was originally a song of lost love but also become a resistance song after the British takeover following the F&I War. I wanted to learn some French Canadian song for French reenactors at vous and the Battle of PDC Wi. since a unit portraying the one that fought in that siege would come from Canada to participate in the event as it neared the 250th anniversary of the battle.

Hey Jeremy here’s a quick run at Oswald’s variations on Mary Scott, a tune I learned from your podcast! I [am playing] an Aulos plastic [flute], copy of a 18th century Grenser. Very nice Instrument for the price. Thought about a wood one but humidity control in our old house is not great.

This is 'La Bernardina' by Josquin des Pres (1450-1521). Not known as a composer for bagpipes, but the leading composer of his time. I have chosen this because a) it is a new find for me, b) because if pipers had access to this music and good instruments they would have played it, and c) because we should not be hidebound to 'tradition', just because it does not come from a bagpiping tradition, does not mean we cant play it, and i cite Amazing Grace as just one case. This is played by Three Swayne D pipes, and one Swayne G pipe. I hope you like it and include it. Best wishes, Dave R

Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle is the traditional Italian Christmas carol played by zampognari. Originally called 'Quanno Nascente Ninno', it was written down in 1754 by St Alphonsus Ligouri, with text in the Neapolitan language: and became so popular that it was later translated into Italian and became 'TU SCENDI DALLE STELLE', undergoing several small changes in its melody during that process. The melody probably existed in various forms for several centuries prior to its 1754 transcription, and is still a basis for many improvised PASTORELLES by zampognari today. I'm playing both Ciaramella ( the Italian folk oboe) and Sei Palmi Zampogna on this track. 'Sei palmi' refers to the length of the instrument's longest chanter, measured by the outsretched palm of the pipe maker's hand, much like the 'cubit' of the ancient world. Zampongne have existed in this form since at least the early 1300's; where we have evidence of the instrument being played in frescoes dated to that time. The zampogna is endemic to southern Italy, exists in about 20 different iterations in several sizes, and is a thriving bagpipe tradition to this day. Hit https://www.bagpipesfao.com/ for more zampogna fun.

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Big thank you to Rod Nevin for an incredibly quick turn around after I requested a couple bass line performances from him. Seriously, I asked and he had them to me in less than 12 hours. You Rock Rod!

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1807: Rossy Castle

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1840: Paddy O’Carrol from Rook Manuscript

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1810: Paddy O Carroll from John Murphy’s Collection of Irish Airs and Jiggs with Variations

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1810: The Irish Washerwoman from John Murphy’s Collection of Irish Airs and Jiggs with Variations

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1609/1859: Oft have I Ridden upon my Grey Nag from

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1651: Dargason from Playford vol 1 https://playforddances.com/dances/dargason/

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1840: Irish Washerwoman From the Rook Manuscript https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/rook/rook_pages/153.htm

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1784: Mwynen Cynwyd The Melody of Cynwyd. From Edward Jones – Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards https://archive.org/details/MusocalAndPoeticalRelicksOfTheWelshBards/page/n136/mode/1up?view=theater

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1807: Fitzmaurice’s Trip to Rosline Castle, from Fitzmaurice’s New Collection of Irish Tunes nos 2 https://books.google.com/books?id=vq4Fb5TyTK4C&newbks=0&pg=PP2#v=onepage&q&f=false

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1807: Miss Ann Robinson’s Jigg, Miss Duff’s Jigg, O’Falvey’s Hornpipe

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1774: Jackson’s Humours of Panteen from Jackson https://pipers.ie/source/gallery/?galleryId=51&_gl=1*n8kkbi*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTc5MDE0MTUwNS4xNzE2MDA4ODM2*_ga_8BBP57V9FE*MTcxNjAxMTYyNC4yLjEuMTcxNjAxMTYyOC4wLjAuMA

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1807: Miss Smollet’s Favorite

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1807: The Humour of Ballinamult

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1861: The Humours of Jug from the Goodman Manuscript vol 1 https://manuscripts.itma.ie/goodman/volume-one/

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1863: Tumble the Jug from the Goodman Manuscript vol 2 https://manuscripts.itma.ie/goodman/volume-two/

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