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Jeremy Kingsbury
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  • S 09 E 19 Zexuan Qiao Border Chanter
    Tunes: William Litten: Patrick’s Hill, Nymph, Wild Irish Man, Ashley’s Ride, “James Aird”: Rise Lazy Lubber, The Ranting Highlandman, I’ll Touzle your Kurchy, The Lady’s Play Thing or Gen Howe’s March, The Oyster Wives Rant, The Moon and Seven Stars, The Corporal, A Rondo, McFarlane’s Strathspey Colin Melville: The Lowland & Border Pipers’ Society, Williiam Vickers: Old Waggan Way, John Watlen (Miss C.D.): Miss Watson’s Favorite, Eliza Ross: Miss Mary ___, Unnamed Jig, William Dixon (Matt Seattle): Golden Locks, Come and hang out for a Session on Zoom at 6:30 PM https://www.facebook.com/share/16w3ijYUpP/ Sources: William Litten: Patrick’s Hill, Nymph, Wild Irish Man, Ashley’s Ride, all from William Litten’s Manuscript: http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20Info.html Original at Martha’s Vineyard Museum: https://mvmuseum.org/ +X+ James Aird/McFadyen 1800?: Rise Lazy Lubber: from James Aird’s Sixth And Final Volume https://archive.org/details/selectionofscotc00rugg/page/10/mode/1up?view=theater +X+ 1782: Ranting Highlandman from James Aird’s Collection vol 1 https://archive.org/details/selectionofscotc02rugg/page/n9/mode/1up?view=theater +X+ 1782: I’ll Touzle your Kurchy, The Lady’s Play Thing or Gen Howe’s March from James Aird’s Collection vol 1 https://archive.org/details/selectionofscotc02rugg/page/n11/mode/1up?view=theater +X+ 1782: The Oyster Wives Rant from James Aird’s Collection vol 1 https://archive.org/details/selectionofscotc02rugg/page/n11/mode/1up?view=theater +X+ 1782: The Moon and Seven Stars, The Corporal from James Aird’s Collection vol 1 https://archive.org/details/selectionofscotc02rugg/page/n12/mode/1up?view=theater +X+ 1800: A Rondo, McFarlane’s Strathspey from Aird’s 6th and final volume https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90484640 +X+X+ 2024: The Lowland & Border Pipers’ Society by Colin Melville https://lbps.net/j3site/index.php/events-reports/competition-and-rules/1226-colin-melville-s-entry-wins-the-40th-anniversary-composing-competition?highlight=WyJtZWx2aWxsZSIsIm1lbHZpbGxlJ3MiXQ== +X+X+ 1812: Miss Mary_____, From Eliza Ross’s Manuscript, http://web.archive.org/web/20230204123514/https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/cultural-heritage-collections/school-scottish-studies-archives/archive-pubs/eliza-ross-manuscript +X+ 1776: Old Wagon Way from William Vickers’ Manuscript http://www.farnearchive.com/farneimages/jpgs/R0311100.jpg +X+ 1791: Miss Watson’s Favorite from John Watlen’s Celebrated Circus Tunes https://archive.org/details/Shand11/page/n100/mode/1up?view=theater +X+ 1812: Eliza Ross’s Unnamed Jig, from Eliza Ross’s Manuscript http://web.archive.org/web/20230204123514/https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/cultural-heritage-collections/school-scottish-studies-archives/archive-pubs/eliza-ross-manuscript +X+ You can see this set on My Album, Cold and Raw here: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/cold-and-raw +X+X+ 1733: Golden Locks from Matt Seattle’s Setting from William Dixon’s Manuscript available here: https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition +X+X+ FIN Here are some ways you can support the show: You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag You can also take a minute to leave a review of the podcast if you listen on Itunes! Tell your piping and history friends about the podcast! Checkout my Merch Store on Bagpipeswag: https://www.bagpipeswag.com/wetootwaag You can also support me by Buying my Albums on Bandcamp: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/ You can now buy physical CDs of my albums using this Kunaki link: https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1 You can just send me an email at [email protected] letting me know what you thought of the episode! Listener mail keeps me going! Finally I have some other support options here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/support Thanks! Listen on Itunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGA
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  • S 09 E 18 Waterloo and Peninsular War tunes part 2 With a track from Jason Rouse
    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 +X+ 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: +X+X+X+ 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 +X+X+ 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 +X+X+ The Highland Brigade at Waterloo 1858: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo From Miller Manuscript +X+ 1817: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo from Gow’s 4th Repository https://imslp.org/wiki/Gow%27sRepositoryoftheDanceMusicofScotland(Gow%2C_Niel) +X+ 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 +X+ 1870s: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo from the Glen Edinburgh Collection (Book 2) https://ceolsean.net/content/EdinColl/EdinColl_TOC.html +X+ 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 +X+X+X+ 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 +X+ 1858: Lochiel’s March From Robert Miller’s Manuscript +X+ 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 +X+ 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 +X+ 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 +X+X+X+X+ 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 +X+ 1844: The Haughs of Cromdale From Angus MacKay’s The Pipers’ Assistant https://ceolsean.net/content/PipeAsst/Book02/Book02%209a.pdf +X+X+ 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 +X+X+X+X+X+ 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 +X+ 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 +X+ 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/ +X+X+ FIN Here are some ways you can support the show: You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag You can also take a minute to leave a review of the podcast if you listen on Itunes! Tell your piping and history friends about the podcast! Checkout my Merch Store on Bagpipeswag: https://www.bagpipeswag.com/wetootwaag You can also support me by Buying my Albums on Bandcamp: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/ You can now buy physical CDs of my albums using this Kunaki link: https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1 You can just send me an email at [email protected] letting me know what you thought of the episode! Listener mail keeps me going! Finally I have some other support options here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/support Thanks! Listen on Itunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGA
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  • S 09 E 17 O'Farrell Vol 3 Playthrough with Donnacha Dwyer Uilleann Pipes
    Tunes: O’Farrell: Delvin House, Major Graham, Love & Whiskey or Bob and Joan with Variations, Contented I am, The White Cockade, One Bottle More, Morgiana in Ireland, I had a Horse I had Nae Mair, Dunkeld Hermitage, Why Should Old Acquaintance be forgot, The Humours of Cork, A Man’s a man for a that, Jackson’s Bottle of Punch, We all take a sup in out turn, The Soldier Laddie, The Humours of Passage, Cumbernauld House, The Pausteen Feaun or the Fair Child, Special Appearance from National Park Service Lawnmower at Fort Necessity National Battlefield Sources and Links: Checkout LBPS’s Weekend of Pipe Music at Dunkeld Scotland, there is a great lineup of musicians and presentations and we’ll get to hang out in Scotland. For more information checkout https://lbps.net/j3site/index.php or the Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/share/19iAqm73vV/ +X+X+ Send me a tune to [email protected] for me to use on the listener submitted episode! Tunes: X++X 1808ish: Delvin House, Major Graham, Love & Whiskey or Bob and Joan with Variations, Contented I am, The White Cockade, One Bottle More, Morgiana in Ireland, I had a Horse I had Nae Mair, Dunkeld Hermitage, Why Should Old Acquaintance be forgot, The Humours of Cork, A Man’s a man for a that, Jackson’s Bottle of Punch, We all take a sup in out turn, The Soldier Laddie, The Humours of Passage, Cumbernauld House, The Pausteen Feaun or the Fair Child, All of the tunes from this episode come from O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion Volume 3. You can download a PDF from Ross’s Music page: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc3.pdf +X+X+X+ FIN Here are some ways you can support the show: You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag You can also take a minute to leave a review of the podcast if you listen on Itunes! Tell your piping and history friends about the podcast! Checkout my Merch Store on Bagpipeswag: https://www.bagpipeswag.com/wetootwaag You can also support me by Buying my Albums on Bandcamp: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/ You can now buy physical CDs of my albums using this Kunaki link: https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1 You can just send me an email at [email protected] letting me know what you thought of the episode! Listener mail keeps me going! Finally I have some other support options here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/support Thanks! Listen on Itunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGA
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  • S 09 E 16 Waterloo Tunes part 1 Johnny Cope and the 71st Regiment of foot
    Tunes: John Gow: Lamentation for the Fallen Heroes of Waterloo William Gunn: 71st Highlander’s quick step, Johnny Cope, Robert Miller: Johny Cope (or Fly to the Hills in the Morning) Thomas Glen: Johnny Cope, Angus MacKay: Johnny Cope, David Glen: Johnny Cope, DG setting for Johnny Cope, O’Farrell: Johnny Cope, Margaret Barry: Johnny Cope, Patrick MacDonald: A Lament (I’m wounded), Readings: Thomas Pockocke, Sergeant-Major Dickson, Victor Hugo, Sources: Episode Cover Art: '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 +X+X+ 1817: Lamentation for the Fallen Heroes of Waterloo (Eb) https://imslp.org/wiki/Gow%27sRepositoryoftheDanceMusicofScotland(Gow%2C_Niel) +X+X+ 1848: 71st Highlander’s Quick Step From William Gunn’s Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Gunn_TOC.html +X+X+ 1838: Johnny Cope (or Fly to the Hills in the Morning) From Robert Miller Manuscript +X+X+ 1843: Johnny Cope From Thomas Glen’s “A New and Complete Tutor for the Highland Bagpipe” https://ceolsean.net/content/TGlen/TGlen_TOC.html +X+X+ 1843: Johnny Cope From Angus MacKay’s The Piper’s Assistant https://ceolsean.net/content/PipeAsst/PipeAsst_TOC.html +X+X+ 1848: Johnny Cope From William Gunn’s Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Gunn_TOC.html +X+X+ 1870s: Johnny Cope From David Glen’s Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music Book 2 https://ceolsean.net/content/Dglen/Dglen_TOC.html +X+X+ 1880s?: Johnny Cope From David Glen’s Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music Book 6 https://ceolsean.net/content/Dglen/Dglen_TOC.html +X+X+ 1810: Johnny Cope From O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion vol 3 https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc3.pdf +X+X+ 2002: Johnny Cope from Margaret Barry: https://www.rogermillington.com/tunetoc/johnnycopebarrynf.html +X+X+ 1784: I’m Wounded (A Lament) from Patrick MacDonald’s Vocal Airs: (From Perthshire section) https://books.google.com/books?id=XCvLHYWLkFcC&newbks=0&pg=RA1-PA14#v=onepage&q&f=false +X+X+ Written Accounts Thomas Pococke Journal of a soldier of the 71st, or Glasgow regiment, Highland Light Infantry, from 1806 to 1815 (Edinburgh: 1819). https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039571487&seq=5 +X+X+ Seargant Major Dickson, “The Greys at Waterloo: Reminiscences of the Last Survivor of the Famous Charge” Mackenzie MacBride Ed., With Napoleon at Waterloo and Other Unpublished Documents of the Waterloo and Peninsular Campaigns (Francis Griffiths, London: 1911). https://archive.org/details/withnapoleonatwa00macbuoft/page/136/mode/2up +X+X+ Victor Hugo, “The Battle of Waterloo” Rossiter Johnson Ed. The Great Events by Famous Historians, (The National Alumni, 1905). https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.41048/page/n389/mode/2up +X+X+ FIN Here are some ways you can support the show: You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag You can also take a minute to leave a review of the podcast if you listen on Itunes! Tell your piping and history friends about the podcast! Checkout my Merch Store on Bagpipeswag: https://www.bagpipeswag.com/wetootwaag You can also support me by Buying my Albums on Bandcamp: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/ You can now buy physical CDs of my albums using this Kunaki link: https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1 You can just send me an email at [email protected] letting me know what you thought of the episode! Listener mail keeps me going! Finally I have some other support options here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/support Thanks! Listen on Itunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGA
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  • S 09 E 15 Robert Miller's 1838 Highland Bagpipe Manuscript with tune from Dàimh
    Tunes: Miller: Bundle and Go, The Highlandmen come over the Hill, The Plunder of the Lowlands now Grazes in the Glens, Glengary’s Strathspey, MacLeod Fencibles Quick March, The Bonniest Wife this side of Lord Reay’s Country, Gather and Go, Kiss and Come Again, The Piper he died cauld in a barn, As I was Kissd yestreen, MacLeod’s March, Jeremy Kingsbury: When the King Enjoys His Own Again/The World Turned Upside Down, Simon Fraser: The Plunder of the Lowlands now Grazes in the Glens, Dàimh: Harris Dance (track). Andy M. Stewart: Dinny The Piper William Ross: MacLeod’s March George S. MacLennan: The MacLeod’s March Thank you to Keith Sanger for sending me the Manuscript to look over and play from. Big thank you to Dàimh! Check out their album here: https://daimh.bandcamp.com/album/the-hebridean-sessions Sources: 1838: Bundle and Go, The Highlandmen come over the Hill, The Plunder of the Lowlands now Grazes in the Glens, Glengary’s Strathspey, MacLeod Fencibles Quick March, The Bonniest Wife this side of Lord Reay’s Country, Gather and Go, Kiss and Come Again, The Piper he died cauld in a barn, As I was Kissd yestreen, MacLeod’s March, From Robert Miller’s 1838 “A Collection of National Music for the Great Highland Bagpipe set by Mr. Robert Miller, Musician for John C Cameron, Piper and Pipe Maker, Dundee 1838. Courtesy of Keith Sanger. +X+X+ 1816: The (Spraith) or Plunder of the Lowlands now Graze in the Glens from Simon P Fraser’s The Airs And Melodies Peculiar To The Highlands Of Scotland And The Isles https://archive.org/details/airsmelodiespecu00fras/page/n43/mode/1up?view=theater +X+X+ Listen to A Great Highland Bagpipe setting of Plunder of the Lowlands (or Old Man’s Calf) that avoids the Cs all together here on Kist of Riches: https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/25962?l=en +X+X+ For More info on Dinny The piper check out: https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/dinnythepiper.html check out the album here: https://store.compassrecords.com/products/dublin-lady?srsltid=AfmBOopPhYlYu_QUS2HZZN4jTJarIINW8t3Xn9VphHsuZ5ohO02gkefO +X+X+ 1869+: McLeod’s March from William Ross’s https://ceolsean.net/content/WRoss/WRoss_TOC.html +X+X+ 1929: The McLeod’s March from George S McClennan’s Highland Bagpipe Music https://ceolsean.net/content/mclennan/MacLennan_TOC.html +X+X+ FIN Here are some ways you can support the show: You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag You can also take a minute to leave a review of the podcast if you listen on Itunes! Tell your piping and history friends about the podcast! Checkout my Merch Store on Bagpipeswag: https://www.bagpipeswag.com/wetootwaag You can also support me by Buying my Albums on Bandcamp: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/ You can now buy physical CDs of my albums using this Kunaki link: https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1 You can just send me an email at [email protected] letting me know what you thought of the episode! Listener mail keeps me going! Finally I have some other support options here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/support Thanks! Listen on Itunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGA
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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
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