Tune from the Campbell Canntaireachd, played on a replica 18th century bagpipe by Barnaby Brown (audio clip)

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Music from the late 18th Century pibroch repertoire, played on a reconstruction of an 18th Century Great Highland bagpipe. The drones are exact copies of a set of drones [NMS LT 31] reputed to have been played at the Battle of Waterloo, but undoubtedly much older in date. The chanter is also copied from a surviving 18th Century Highland bagpipe chanter [NMS H.1995.785].

The tune is from a large manuscript collection of pibroch assembled by Colin Campbell in Argyll in the 1790s. In contrast to conventional music notation, this is written in a syllabic form described in Gaelic as canntaireachd. The tune's title has not been recorded, but the piece is generally known by its canntaireachd vocables Hioemtra Haentra.

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• Online ID: 000-000-580-066-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: The Bagpipe Collection
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  Sound Asset.7
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• Material: Tune played on a replica 18th century bagpipe
  
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• What: Tune played on a replica 18th century bagpipe
  
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• Who: Barnaby Brown (performer)
  Colin Campbell (Collector of pibroch)
  Greentrax Recordings Ltd
  Julian Goodacre (maker of instrument)
  
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• Description: Tune from the Campbell Canntaireachd, played on a replica 18th century bagpipe by Barnaby Brown.
  
• References:
  • Cannon, Roderick D.,. The Highland Bagpipe and its Music. Edinburgh: John Donald, 1988 and later editions.
  • Cheape, Hugh,. The Book of the Bagpipe. Appletree Press, 1999.
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