
Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast
Jeremy Kingsbury
This show is (mostly) a bi-weekly podcast that explores the likely repertoire of eighteenth and early nineteenth century bagpipers, using historic music collections (written for bagpipes or not), performed on Uilleann pipes, Highland pipes, Border pipes, Lowland Pipes, Northumbrian Smallpipes and whistles. Every episodes notes include links to the historic sheet music when available. For information about my Albums go here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/albums For information about Jeremy and the instruments played on the show go here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/about
Categories: Music
Listen to the last episode:
Tunes:
Jason Rouse: Napoleon’s Grand March
Stables: Napoleon’s Grand March
Angus MacKay: Up and Waur them A’ Willie, The Haughs of Cromdale,
Robert Miller: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo, Lochiel’s March (Pibroch of Donald Dhu)
John Gow: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo
Donald MacLeod: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo
John McLachlan: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo
David Glen: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo, The Highland Brigade at Waterloo (2nd setting), Pibroch of Donald Dhu,
Donald MacDonald: Piobaireachd Dhomnuill Duibh (Black Donald Balloch of the Isles),
John Grant: The Gathering of the Clans,
Readings:
Henry John Thoroton Hildyard: Historical record of the 71st regiment Highland light infantry, from its formation in 1777, under the title of the 73rd, or McLeod's highlanders, up to the year 1876
C.A. Malcolm: The Piper in Peace and War
Allan MacDonald Thesis: The Relationship Between Pibroch and Gaelic Song: Its Implications on the Performance Style of the Pibroch Urlar
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Checkout Jason's Album Heavy Metal on Bandcamp:
https://pipingrouse.bandcamp.com/album/miotal-trom-heavy-metal
Be sure to come check out the Zoom Tune Session Thursday at 6:30 PM US Central time:
https://und.zoom.us/j/95809246209
Here is the Facebook Even for the Session:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1EHr9pYUKD/
Sources:
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Late 19thc: Napoleon’s March From Henry Stables Cumbria Manuscript by way of Chris Partington and Traditional Tune Archive:
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Napoleon%27s_March
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1854: Up and Waur Them A’ Willie from Angus MacKay’s The Pipers’ Assistant
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105007223
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The Highland Brigade at Waterloo
1858: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo
From Miller Manuscript
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1817: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo from Gow’s 4th Repository
https://imslp.org/wiki/Gow%27s_Repository_of_the_Dance_Music_of_Scotland_(Gow%2C_Niel)
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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)
https://ceolsean.net/content/EdinColl/EdinColl_TOC.html
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1890s: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo from David Glen’s Collection of Highland Pipe Music (Book 9)
https://ceolsean.net/content/Dglen/Dglen_TOC.html
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Pibroch of Donald Dbhu
1821: Pibroch of Donald Dbhu from Donald MacDonald https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hdpWAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA106#v=onepage&q&f=false
Check out Alasdair Boyd’s Singing on Tobar an Dualchais:
https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/44689?l=en
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1858: Lochiel’s March
From Robert Miller’s Manuscript
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1880s: Pibroch of Donald Dhu from book five of David Glen's Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music
https://ceolsean.net/content/Dglen/Dglen_TOC.html
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1840: Donald Dhu, or Lochiel’s March from Davie’s Caledonian Repository
I didn’t play this on the episode
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104999413
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1816: Pibroch of Donald Dubh from Alexander Campbell’s Albyn’s Anthology (Lyrics by Walter Scott)
I didn’t play this on the episode
https://archive.org/details/albynsanthologyo00camp_0/page/82/mode/2up?view=theater
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1828: The Haughs of Cromdale
From Donald MacDonald
I didn’t play this on the episode
https://ceolsean.net/content/McDlight/Book02/Book02%2020.pdf
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1844: The Haughs of Cromdale
From Angus MacKay’s The Pipers’ Assistant
https://ceolsean.net/content/PipeAsst/Book02/Book02%209a.pdf
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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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Readings:
George Clarke:
1876: Excerpt from Historical record of the 71st regiment Highland light infantry, from its formation in 1777, under the title of the 73rd, or McLeod's highlanders, up to the year 1876 by Henry John Thornton Hildyard
https://archive.org/details/historicalrecord00hildiala
'Anecdote of the bravery of the Scotch piper of the 71st Highland Regiment, at the Battle of Vimiero', 1808
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1971-02-33-533-12
Music Division, The New York Public Library. "The Highland Piper, George Clarke" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed July 5, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-9cac-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
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Pipe Major Cameron:
1927: Excerpt from The Piper In Peace And War
By C. A. Malcolm, M.A., Ph.D.
https://electricscotland.com/history/scotreg/peaseandwar15.htm
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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
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/allanmacdonald/
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187 - S 09 E 14 Listener Submitted Special Rerun and Reminder Sat, 07 Jun 2025
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176 - Season 9 E 03 Celtic Melodies with new article from Roddy Cannon & Keith Sanger and tunes from Rod Nevin Sat, 08 Feb 2025
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175 - S 09 E 02 Rerun of a Conversation about Bagpipe Myths and History with Keith Sanger Sat, 25 Jan 2025
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174 - S 09 E 01 New Intro Music and Season 5 MixTape Rerun Sun, 12 Jan 2025
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172 - S 08 E 28 Season 8 Mix Tape part 2 Sat, 21 Dec 2024
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171 - S 08 E 27 Season 8 Mix Tape part 1 Sat, 14 Dec 2024 - 0h
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170 - S 08 E 26 180 year old Tunes on a 180 Year old Chanter Angus MacKay playthrough on Donald MacKay Chanter (maybe) Sat, 30 Nov 2024
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169 - S 08 E 25 Donald MacDonald Playthrough Part 4 Dunrobin Castle and Bung Your Eye Sat, 16 Nov 2024
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168 - Season 8 Episode 24: Halloween Special Cemetery Piping Thu, 31 Oct 2024 - 0h
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166 - S 08 E 22 Witch Treatises Halloween Special Part 1 Sat, 19 Oct 2024
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165 - S 08 E 21 John Bell, Byker Hill and Dorrington Lads with songs from Frankie Archer, Cork Sacred Harp and many others Sun, 06 Oct 2024
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164 - S 08 E 20 Wetootwaag's Summer Rambles with tunes from Jim Sanders, Robert Edwards, Abe Zettek, Daniel Laxer, Cory Rudell and more Sat, 21 Sep 2024
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163 - S 08 E 19 Cold and Raw Album Discussion Thu, 05 Sep 2024 - 0h
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162 - S 08 E 18 Music of the John Sutherland Manuscript Sat, 24 Aug 2024
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161 - S 08 E 17 The Sutherland Manuscript (article by Ross Anderson) Sat, 10 Aug 2024 - 0h
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160 - S 08 E 16 Getting Pumped for Pipers' Gathering 2024 Sat, 27 Jul 2024
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159 - S 08 E 15 70,000 Downloads Listener Submitted Special Sat, 13 Jul 2024
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158 - S 8 E 14 First Three Days with Colin Ross Bagpipes Sun, 30 Jun 2024 - 0h
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157 - S 08 E 13 Small Small Pipe Episode Sutherland Tunes on Quiet Piper pipes Sat, 22 Jun 2024 - 0h
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156 - S 08 E 12 Saw a Lassie of Fifteen in the Mines at Wicklow: John Sutherland Manuscript Part 2 Sat, 15 Jun 2024
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155 - S 08 E 11 Exploring Key Signatures from Walker Jackson Part 2 with tunes from Frank Claudy and Patrick Hutchinson Sat, 01 Jun 2024
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154 - S 08 E 10 Tunes from the William Litten Manuscript Sat, 25 May 2024
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153 - S08 E09 Exploring the Key Signatures in Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes Sat, 18 May 2024
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152 - S 08 E 08 John Peacock’s Collection Part 1 (aka 5 days with a Northumbrian Small pipe Chanter) Sat, 04 May 2024 - 0h
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151 - S 08 E07 George MacLeod's 1784 Repertoire part 2 (Patrick MacDonald's Piper) Sat, 20 Apr 2024
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150 - S 08 E 06 Gathering Of the Clans Revisited a Conversation with Barry Shears Sat, 13 Apr 2024
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149 - S 08 E 05 Thank You Ross Anderson: Tunes from John Sutherland and David Young Sat, 06 Apr 2024
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148 - S 08 E 04 George MacLeod's 1784 Repertoire part 1 (Patrick MacDonald's North Highland Piper) Sat, 23 Mar 2024
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147 - S 08 E 03 My Approach to Music Theory and the Historical Repertoire Sat, 09 Mar 2024
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146 - S 08 E 02 UPDATED Robert Bremner's Rudiments of Music Sat, 24 Feb 2024
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145 - S08 E 01 My Approach to a Historical Repertoire Sat, 10 Feb 2024
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144 - Rerun: The Patrick McDonald’s Discussion With Keith Sanger, Matt Seattle, Barry Shears and Pete Stewart Sat, 27 Jan 2024
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143 - Rerun Important Influences: The Patrick McDonald’s Collection of Highland Vocal Airs Audiobook Sat, 13 Jan 2024
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