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Based on a 'national collection of the national instrument' now assembled in National Museums Scotland, this book offers an account of the musicology of the bagpipe in its European context, including the remarkable influence of the Baroque on Scotland's musical traditions. The record is meagre for the evolution of the bagpipe in Scotland and perceptions of the 'national instrument' have depended on a stereotype Great Highland Bagpipe assumed to have a continuous history from a distant past. The evidence, as far as it goes, suggests that Scotland adopted a 'great pipe' from the European bagpipe tradition and made it, through the strength of the Gaelic language and its music, very much its own. The accompanying CD-ROM makes available for the first time the database of the National Museums Scotland collection with some sound clips.

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'My choices [to receive for Christmas] are as follows: Bagpipes: A National Collection of a National Instrument, by Hugh Cheape, (NMSE, GBP15.99). Few people know more about the history of this instrument than Hugh Cheape. A fascinating book...' Alexander McCall Smith, Scotsman 6 December 08; ... unfurls a swathe of thoughtful scholarship that shifts the ground under most of what is commonly said and thought about Bagpipes in Scotland. ... Hugh Cheape's insightful analysis emerges through his detailing of the piping-related collection of the National Museums of Scotland, a collection for which he was almost single-handedly responsible. ... Hugh Cheape has resourced piping scholarship with an array of intriguing new questions.' Piping Today

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Dr Hugh Cheape, formerly head of the Scottish Material Culture Research Centre, National Museums Scotland, was largely responsible for building this definitive bagpipe collection. He is now a Lecturer and Course Leader in the University of the Highlands and Islands.He has published many articles on Scottish history, and his books include Tartan: The Highland Habit.

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