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 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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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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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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