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Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Uillean Pipes Little irritating facts (24) RE: Uillean Pipes Little irritating facts 11 Mar 99


No, the painter, being Dutch, would presumably have been depicting pipers in Flanders.

The fact that tunes were first printed in England might perhaps have to do with the fact that the English had the bulk of the printing presses. But that the tunes were printed there and presumably the books sold there should show that the English didn't have any particular prejudice against Scottish or Irish dance tunes.

Incidently, except for his distant ancestry there was little that was Scottish about Bonnie Prince Charlie any more than there was much Scottish about Charles II or his brother James. Bonnie Charlie probably presented himself very much like a well-bred Frenchman, since that is where he was raised.


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