SEQUEL
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Pibroch, the Tangled Web
The radio series was recorded in early 1984, but was not broadcast for 20 months, then it was "vanished". Meanwhile "many old pipers who could confirm the truth about the scandal had died, and with them their irreplaceable knowledge."
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How the Web was spun
Three of the programmes had to be recorded in one day, while I also had to play excerpts before-and-after from about 10 pibrochs on the chanter. The fourth programme was tied up in a morning. I had never previously broadcast.
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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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How the tunes were doctored
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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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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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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