Thursday, September 02, 2004

Save the pipers?

But, of course, a thomais. Save them/us, indeed. But a save-the-pipers movement? There are more players of the Great Highland Bagpipe now than there have ever been. So perhaps a Movement for that purpose is not quite as vital right at the moment as that in aid of the apostrophe. Maybe something to preserve the tradition though? Piobaireachd seems to be more vital than it's been in a hundred years. But depending upon who you talk to, the light music tradition is either being enriched or destroyed these days. It's an article of faith among pipers of a certain age that no one can play a proper MSR [march/strathspey/reel] any more.

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