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Excerpt from The Highland Bagpipe: Its History, Literature, and Music, With Some Account of the Traditions, Superstitions, and Anecdotes Relating to the Instrument and Its TunesAncient musical instruments - Priestly harpers - Hereditary harpers - Irish versus Scottish harpers - Royal harpers - Use of harp universal - Welsh sarcasm - Mary Queen of Scots' harp - ~the last of the harpers The Harper of Mull - From harp to pipes - The clarsach - Pi...
Excerpt from The Highland Bagpipe: Its History, Literature, and Music, With Some Account of the Traditions, Superstitions, and Anecdotes Relating to the Instrument and Its Tunes
Ancient musical instruments - Priestly harpers - Hereditary harpers - Irish versus Scottish harpers - Royal harpers - Use of harp universal - Welsh sarcasm - Mary Queen of Scots' harp - ~the last of the harpers The Harper of Mull - From harp to pipes - The clarsach - ...