SEQUEL
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Wikipedia
The panic-stricken authors of the Wikipedia article on Piobaireachd, pretending the discredited MacCrimmon legend was still intact, tried to deceive readers over the contents of the book, which had dismantled the MacCrimmon fantasy. Here is why and how.
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The Sidelights (aka the Snidebytes)
BBC asked me to provide a four-part series, which I called Pibroch the Tangled Web, to bring the history of pibroch up to the present. Without explanation it was held up for 20 months, while "Sidelights to the Kilberry Book" was published after the series was recorded but before it was broadcast.
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Brought to Book
Professional reviews of certain tomes on pibroch, already hailed by bloggers as works of great "scholarship", "graceful writing", and "infallibility" will now properly scrutinise these "works" for truth, lucidity and plausibility.
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The wisdom of William Donaldson
When the book was handed to me I was told: "He's trying to write you out of piping history."
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They stand corrected
This is where the smears stop, and their peddlers are scrutinised, publicly identified (which they fear most) and added to the shame-sheet of those who Stand Corrected.
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Pibroch, the Tangled Web
The series must have petrified the Piob. Society because it quoted the letters of John Macdonald, the Society's chief instructor, damning Campbell-K and the Kilberry Book while I revealed I had retrieved part of the MacDougall Gillies MSS, thought to have been entirely burned.
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Inside the Tangled Web
The four programmes were called: (1) Controversy's Dark Harvest; (2) The Hanoverian Hoodwinkers; (3) Angus MacKay - Messiah or Madman; (4) Who Stole the People's Music? The scripts will be published with a CD of the broadcasts, the lost pibroch exercises, and much more.
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The deception of the piper
"The McArthurs and the MacCrimmons are long gone, except for one old man of the latter who has something from MacLeod". Extracted from "The Hanoverian Hoodwinkers", part 2 of the BBC Radio Scotland series, Pibroch, the Tangled Web, recorded on 17 May 1984, but not broadcast till 29 September 1985.
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Who invented the MacCrimmon legend?
Scott and Co., in an act of utter contempt had stolen the emigrants' lament to neutralise its emotional impact for political reasons.
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The Book of No Names
The three ominous crosses which blew the whistle on how the pibroch names were falsified to glorify the lairds and prop up the fake legend.
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The Scotch stramash
So when the great day came - what did we get? It certainly had a tasteful grey-green card cover, which did little for the expensive interior. Somehow the Angus MacKay index was included after all but was so "faded" the wording was difficult to make out.
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Stolen tunes for a false legend
The near-sacred Lament for Culloden was thieved and fittingly cacophonised to become another buttress of the spurious 'legend'. It was renamed Lament for Patrick Og MacCrimmon and was published in Angus MacKay's 1838 book with yet another fanciful tale.
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Who stole the Campbell Canntaireachd?
‘My feeling is the music should not be tainted by the shameful efforts of persons who somehow want to claim it for one side or the other and mutilating it in the process. It should be left in peace as the memorial to a very brave and loyal young piper’.
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Death of a 'legend'
In the process the ancient music has been bastardised and rendered inchoate, and this unnatural "legend" was used to inflict the distorted versions of Angus MacKay on pipers...
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The reason why
The reason why the despotic lairds prosecuted their confidence tricks...will be revealed in the book.
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