Beautiful photo! Thanks for sharing it :) I would love to know more about the customs and culture, and I am definatly working on an opportunity to go to Ireland and Scotland in the next couple of years and I need to know what to wear!!
hI vICTOR READ MY RECENT BLOG RE THE mASSACREOF THE mIDGIE rANT TAE THE TUNE O SCOTS WHA HAE FOR ANOTHER GIGGLE,NO NO MACDONALD BLOOD i KNOW OF BUT i AM ANaRGYLL MAN AND YOU CAN NEVER TELL ON THESE DARK NIGHTS IN aRGYLL...OCH WELL ooops sorry capitals
Hi Victor I personally have not found so much difference certainly not so much as historically was the case and as a Sennachie I travel widely both here an other countries .I am the only one of my family or forebears who has ever lived here and others in the blood line are either huntly area or and Fife or Nova Scotia and Ontario I have only been here five years or so.I come from Argyll originally.Aye yours David
Victor, No doubt we are probably cousins, Grandad's house is still standing in New Miln. I'm taking my mom there this next summer as she's never visited. There's an off-chance I'll be in Australia beginning of January for a Kung-Fu training camp. It's in Melbourne but if I go, I'll try to swing around to meet you if possible (don't see why it shouldn't be). Nice fish! You must try salmon fishing on the west coast (Canada).
Yours aye,
Jonathan
I got my practice chanter today, I actually was able to play the 9 note scale I was out of breath by the end though. I have done it maybe 20 times. My problem is when I see the music(symbols) I don't see the Notes. unless I write beside the picture what it's supposed to be. So I need to memorize that so that I'll automatically be able to put my hand in the correct hand position.when I see the symbol.I have memorized the hand position for the notes though, I just need to bea able to read the misic and practice alot!! I'm just so darn excited.
So I should look into getting a practice Chanter? I still plan on getting a set of pipes to just have and I can look forward to playing them one day. I'm in Iraq now I was hoping there was some way I could try to learn a bit and then when I get back to the states get with a wll known piper for formal training. How does that sound?
HELLO VICTOR it is nice to hear from you my dad was a william muir, and my granddad was a william muir from a place called clydesdale outside glasgow he moved to glasgow [denniston] 1930s
Yesterday, the 8th March 2009, at the Geelong Highland Gathering I was proud to have been part of the competition band which won the Victorian Pipe Band Championships in Grade 3.
(Grade 3 is said to currently be the most competit… Continue
Chapter IX - Commencement of the Village of Devonside—Kefflersbrae and Strude Mills—Formation of Gartmorn Dam in 1700—Forrest Mill, and Michael Bruce, the Poet of Lochieven—Subsequent Occupiers of some of the Mills—Great Flood in 1877— Heavy Flood in the Devon in 1785—Romantic Story about the Drysdale Family of Tillicoultry—Manufacturing Firms who didn't spin Yarns, etc.
Chapter XXII. - A busy camp—Process of butchering and drying meat— How pemmican is made—Our camp in peril—Chasing a herd of buffalo up a steep bank—Mark scores a point on me—We encounter a war party of Blackfeet—A fortunate rain-storm—A mirage gives us a false alarm—Unwritten laws as to rights of hunters.
Chapter VIII - Tillicoultry and Neighbourhood—Legend of the 'Clenched Fist' —Old Castle in Tillicoultry—Names of Hills in the Ochil Range—Last Occupier of Mill Glen House Farm—Extracts from Statistical Accounts of Tilicoultry Parish, written in 1792 and 1840—Fishing Streams of the Ochils—Glenfarg one of the most Picturesque Glens in Scotland—Tillicoultry a Manufacturing Village in the days of Queen Mary, etc.
Chapter XXI. - Alternate feasting and fasting—We start out on a buffalo hunt—Old Paul brings down a fine moose—Providential provision—Enoch Crawler kills another moose—Magnificent landscapes—Entering the great treeless plains—Wonderful mirages—We come upon the tracks of buffalo—Our men shoot a huge grizzly —Charging a bunch of cows—A lively chase—Samson's plucky plunge over a bank after the buffalo— I chase and kill a fine cow—The camp busy killing and making provisions—Guarding against hostile Indians.