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Thread #9593   Message #62534
Posted By: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca
11-Mar-99 - 10:52 PM
Thread Name: Uillean Pipes Little irritating facts
Subject: RE: Uillean Pipes Little irritating facts
I missed that. So they are the same.

I'm not sure if I understand Jo's post though. The Duke of Cumberland certainly did a great deal of punishing after 1745, and there was at least a legal ban on pipes in Scotland for some time. I think Boswell does mention that some of the piping schools had been closed, but I would have to dig up the exact reference. There were also other legal changes which were meant to lessen the power of the clan chieftains. It just appears that by 1773 at least the ban on pipes wasn't being much enforced.

Perhaps the difference in Scotland might have been the realization that some of them had actually supported the Hanovers over the Stuarts, and it wasn't particularly fair to reward them in such a fashion. I make no comment on the merits of these ancient disputes, except to point out that in the previous century it was the Scots who handed Charles I over to his fate.