“with a predeliction for enticing people to approach him, then punching or kicking them in the testicles. He was Angus MacKay, Queen Victoria's first household piper, a man of undoubted talents,” — Alistair Campsie Copy Share Image
“Pipers at the Edinburgh contest were using two-droned pipes up until 1821, when such pipes were forbidden, because they allegedly gave an unfair advantage… — Alistair Campsie Copy Share Image
“It would have come as a considerable shock to Arch. Campbell and other members of the Piob. Society to know that when MacDougall Gillies played the tune in competitions which they were judging, he was playing it 'at' them instead of 'to' them ... and they did not realise he was expressing his loathing and contempt for them. When Robert… — Alistair Campsie Copy Share
“I gave a kiss, a kiss, a kiss I gave a kiss to the King's hand No man who filled a sheepskin bag with… — Alistair Campsie Copy Share Image
“The outrage which greeted the announcement that the Scottish Arts Council had awarded me a Writer's Bursary to complete this book scrutinising the MacCrimmon… — Alistair Campsie Copy Share Image
“with a predeliction for enticing people to approach him, then punching or kicking them in the testicles. He was Angus MacKay, Queen Victoria's first household… — Alistair Campsie Copy Share Image
“When owing to the infirmity of his years, he could not play the Warpipe, he would sit in a sheltered spot, facing the sun… — Alistair Campsie Copy Share Image
“Against the "supposed cause of insanity" is emphatically stated: "Disappointment and drink", bearing out the original newspaper story. But a later hand has scored through… — Alistair Campsie Copy Share Image
“is to certify that someone so far unidentified wrote deliberate errors into the corrected final proofs of this book after they left my hands,… — Alistair Campsie Copy Share Image
“it is doubtful if they could differentiate between pibroch and a proctalgic twinge.” — Alistair Campsie Copy Share Image
“The Act also forbade the carrying of weapons, later claimed to ban the bagpipes, which had been judicially declared a weapon of war, for… — Alistair Campsie Copy Share Image
“was an advanced eccentric, and had the disconcerting habit of seizing people in the High Street of Edinburgh, and chanting and crooning these incomprehensible… — Alistair Campsie Copy Share Image
“Musick they have, but not the harmony of the sphears, but loud terrene noises, like the bellowing of beasts; the loud bagpipe is their… — Alistair Campsie Copy Share Image
