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The Bagpipe Revival (bagpipes death and revival (beginning of revival…

- - - - interview in NE scotland
      - old man played pipes
      - short of breath used bellows
      - referred to as 'irish pipes'
  - - - more information uncovered
      - increasingly questioned
    - - design, scale, bellows
      - core revivalists instrument makers?
    - - geographical sense of identity
        
        institutional core revivalists
      - step between revivalists & public
  - - - Francie Marks d.1900
      - scant
    - - part of revival is research
  - - - most contentious points
      - divide - highland vs lowland
      - no printed collections of tunes
    - - origin of collections
        
        Lady Dorothea Murray
        
        athol library in perth
        
        Mark Seattle
      - speculation
        
        writer and music
        
        piper himself?
        
        one man's repertoire?
        
        revivalist?
      - parallels to highland tradition
        
        harp players
        
        melodic vs rhythmic
        
        highland AND northumbria
      - earliest bagpipe music
        
        oral to literate
      - authenticity
        
        no tempo - how textually dextrous?
        
        no function/context
- - - - no evidence pre-1500
      - pictorial elements
    - - some patronage
      - not high culture
  - - - status lower than highlands
        
        consistent with Europe
      - some pipers professionalised [minority]
      - town pipers
        
        house & uniform
        
        retainer rather than salary
        
        played gigs
    - - bags replaced cheeks, bellows replaced lungs
      - 17th C lowland pipes largely bellows blown
      - 19th C
        
        sharp decline
        
        virtually extinct by 1900s
        
        new instruments
        
        funding cut
        
        loss of familial patronage
- - - - what does a border mean?
      - both sides, or just the north?
    - - strong conection but not exclusive
        
        authentic but not prescriptive
      - receptive to other traditions
        
        traditional spaces
        
        modern innovations
  - - - royal conservatoire
        
        not first instrument
        
        marker of success?