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26 Jul 01 - 01:58 PM (#515064) Subject: I only wanted a map From: Roger in Sheffield While trying to order an OS map the companies site search threw up this TRADITIONAL GAELIC BAGPIPING FROM 1745 TO 1945 So I thought I would ask, is it any good?, and why is it among all the other map based products on this site? |
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26 Jul 01 - 02:28 PM (#515088) Subject: RE: BS: I only wanted a map From: McGrath of Harlow TRADITIONAL GAELIC BAGPIPING FROM 1745 TO 1945 GIBSON, JOHN... PUBLISHED 00/00/1900
That's an impressive example of the Second Sight there!! |
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26 Jul 01 - 03:05 PM (#515133) Subject: RE: BS: I only wanted a map From: Malcolm Douglas It's an excellent book, published in 1998. There's a copy at Sheffield Central Library if Roger wants to check it out. I quoted a short extract from it in this thread: Bagpipes in America. Amongst many other things, Gibson demolishes the myth that the pipes were proscribed in the aftermath of the Jacobite rebellions. |
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26 Jul 01 - 03:06 PM (#515134) Subject: RE: BS: I only wanted a map From: Naemanson The millennium bug strikes again! Civilizations crash to a halt! News at 11:00. |
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26 Jul 01 - 03:12 PM (#515139) Subject: RE: BS: I only wanted a map From: katlaughing Thanks, Malcolm, that was very interesting. Sorry I missed it, earlier. To answer Roger's question, does the book have maps in it, which trace piping? perhaps that is why it is on that site? Thanks, kat |
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27 Jul 01 - 03:12 PM (#516184) Subject: RE: BS: I only wanted a map From: Roger in Sheffield Thanks Malcolm I will look it up |
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28 Jul 01 - 03:19 PM (#516740) Subject: RE: BS: I only wanted a map From: SINSULL refresh |