“The Act also forbade the carrying of weapons, later claimed to ban the bagpipes, which had been judicially declared a weapon of war, for a piper named Reid was hanged in 1746 for playing the instrument in the Jacobite army.” — 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… — Alistair Campsie Copy Share Image
“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
