Theme & Variation - representing the national instrument A Distant Past - the bagpipe comes to Scotland Gaelic Symphony - the great pipe takes root Piping Dynasties - pipers, poets and shennachies The Pastoral and New Bagpipe - echoes of the neo-baroque Taste and Humour - the Union Pipe of Scotland and Ireland The Maestros - architects of change
Dr Hugh Cheape, formerly head of the Scottish Material Culture Research Centre, National Museums Scotland, was largely responsible for building this definitive bagpipe collection. He is now a Lecturer and Course Leader in the University of the Highlands and Islands.He has published many articles on Scottish history, and his books include Tartan: The Highland Habit.
'My choices [to receive for Christmas] are as follows: Bagpipes: A National Collection of a National Instrument, by Hugh Cheape, (NMSE, GBP15.99). Few people know more about the history of this instrument than Hugh Cheape. A fascinating book...' Alexander McCall Smith, Scotsman 6 December 08: ... unfurls a swathe of thoughtful scholarship that shifts the ground under most of what is commonly said and thought about Bagpipes in Scotland. ... Hugh Cheape's insightful analysis emerges through his detailing of the piping-related collection of the National Museums of Scotland, a collection for which he was almost single-handedly responsible. ... Hugh Cheape has resourced piping scholarship with an array of intriguing new questions.' Piping Today
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