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"Highland Cathedral" (Scottish Gaelic: Cathair-eaglais na Gàidhealtachd) is a popular melody for the great Highland bagpipe. This melody was composed by German musicians Ulrich Roever and Michael Korb [ 1 ] in 1982 for a Highland games held in Germany. [ 2 ]
His funeral was held at Pitlochry Church of Scotland and was attended by hundreds of pipers. [5] [9] In his memory, the Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust [12] was set up early in 2006 to support good causes in piping. [13] In 2007, A National Treasure concert was staged in Perth by the Trust, and for the following four years, with the BBC airing the ...
Bagpipe societies, such as the Glasgow-based Piobaireachd Society, have commonly employed the term piobaireachd as a synonym for ceol mor played on the Great Highland Bagpipes. [3] The term piobaireachd or pibroch is also historically employed to describe ceol mor -related repertoire played on instruments other than bagpipes, particularly the ...
The great Highland bagpipe (Scottish Gaelic: a' phìob mhòr pronounced [a ˈfiəp ˈvoːɾ] lit. 'the great pipe') is a type of bagpipe native to Scotland, and the Scottish analogue to the great Irish warpipes. It has acquired widespread recognition through its usage in the British military and in pipe bands throughout the world.
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Though bagpipes are closely associated with Scotland, the instrument (or, more precisely, family of instruments) is found throughout large swathes of Europe, North Africa and South Asia. The most common bagpipe heard in modern Scottish music is the Great Highland Bagpipe, which was spread by the Highland regiments of the British Army ...
As part of this rebirth, fashion designer and artist Jean-Charles de Castelbajac was asked to create new vestments, or special service garments, for the cathedral’s clergy.
In 2006, a Devon folk singer, Sheelagh Allen, wrote a song about him, "The Highland Piper". [11] Millin played the pipes at Lord Lovat's funeral in 1995. [12] Millin, who suffered a stroke in 2003, died in hospital in Torbay on 17 August 2010, aged 88. [1] [4] His wife Margaret (née Dowdel, from Edinburgh) died in 2000. They were survived by ...