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Jig and a reel printed in 'The Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes'

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by William Gunn, Glasgow, 1848

Postcard of Jig and a reel printed in 'The Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes'.
000-000-579-879-C
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Jig and a reel printed in 'The Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes'

A jig, 'The Tailor's Wedding', and a reel, 'To America we go', printed on William Gunn's 'Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes' printed and published in Glasgow in 1848.

The reel, 'To America we go', had earlier been printed in Niel Gow's collection of dance music for the fiddle where it was called 'The America Reel'. By tradition it was a 'Dance called America' which Dr. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell described as seeing in Skye in 1773 and as symbolising the beginnings of large-scale emigration from the Hebrides to North America in the second half of the 18th century. The Gaelic title is the first line of the song 'Over the Islands to America we shall go'.

William Gunn (1795 - 1867) was born in Kildonan, Scotland, and learned the trade of weaving. He began playing in the Highland Society's piping competitions, winning the 5th Prize in Edinburgh in 1824, having moved to Glasgow in about 1823. He set up business as a bagpipe maker about 1834 and, until 1850, he lived and worked at 48 Gallowgate in Glasgow. Latterly (until 1866), he lived and ran his business from 273 George Street. He died on 14 February 1867 aged 72.


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Online ID: 000-000-579-879-C
Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
Project: 0869: The Bagpipe Collection
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Ref: National Museums Scotland  K.2003.680 (4)
Date: 1848 (date of publication)
Material: Paper and ink
Dimensions: 270 mm x 195 mm x 18 mm
What: A jig and a reel printed in a book of music for the Highland bagpipe
Subject:
Who: William Gunn, Bagpipe Maker (author and publisher)
Where: Scotland, Glasgow, Gallowgate Street (place of publication)
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Description: A jig and a reel printed in a book of music for the Highland bagpipe, 100 pages.
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