““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 Reid told me this, he added that I should not attempt to play the tune until I was forty. 'You won't be mature enough to understand hatred until that age.'— hatred being the emotion behind the tune.””
