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

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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