This is what happens when I post in a hurry. First I mispell his name even though I am full aware of the correct spelling (It's McNeill), then I don't make it clear that I am speaking of arrangements he did. A great example of the piping style I am speaking of occurs in the song he wrote and arranged that Ed Miller recorded. It is The Song of the Hammers. While it is a contemporary song, the piping is the wild and free form style. I am not sure who the piper is on that track, but McNeill's fiddle is emblematic of the style I am referring to as well. There are many examples of the return to the earlier less anglicized forms of piping and fiddle to be found in the earlier Battlefield Band music.

Thanks for your calling me back to this, effsee. Sometimes I get in a hurry and get a bit oblique. I know this subject could get contentious and I hope it doesn't. It is a discussion worth having and one I will probably learn something in.

All the best,

Mick