The Highland bagpipe
- Subtitle
- its history, literature, and music with some account of the traditions, superstitions, and anecdotes relating to the instrument and its tunes
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Table of contents
1. Front matter2. Preface.3. Illustrations.4. CHAPTER I. Tuning up.5. CHAPTER II. Harpers, Bards, and Pipers.6. CHAPTER III. The Tale of the Years.7. CHAPTER IV. The Make of the Pipes.8. CHAPTER V. With an Ear to the Drone.9. CHAPTER VI. The “Language” of the Pipes.10. CHAPTER VII. The Literature of the Pipes.11. CHAPTER VIII. The Pipes in Battle.12. CHAPTER IX. The Piper as a Hero.13. CHAPTER X. The Regimental Piper.14. CHAPTER XI. The Piper as a Man of Peace.15. CHAPTER XII. The Burgh Pipers of Scotland.16. CHAPTER XIII. From the Seat of the Scorner.17. CHAPTER XIV. The Humour of the Pipes.18. CHAPTER XV. Demoniac Pipes and Pipers.19. CHAPTER XVI. Pipers and Fairies.20. CHAPTER XVII. Pipers in Enchanted Caves.21. CHAPTER XVIII. The Hereditary Pipers.22. CHAPTER XIX. Some Latter Day Pipers.23. CHAPTER XX. How Piping is Preserved.24. CHAPTER XXI. The Oldest Pipe Tunes.25. CHAPTER XXII. Some World-Famous Pibrochs.26. CHAPTER XXIII. Some Well-Known Gatherings.27. CHAPTER XXIV. More Stories and a Moral.28. APPENDIX.29. Index.