THE SCAM
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The Great Pibroch Hoax (1)
The judges, Campbell and Grant, secretly conspired to kill off the Society's 1st edition, asserting it was crammed with blunders, then replaced it with another edition, falsely asserting the tunes came from Sandy Cameron and MacDougall Gillies - the same pipers who had edited the 1st edition.
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The John MacKay fraud
The judges blustered that the MacCrimmons taught John MacKay, who handed their tunes on unchanged to his son Angus...but did they?
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The Great Pibroch Hoax (2)
How Campbell-K mysteriously seemed to become the new authority on MacDougall Gillies.
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The tunes of destruction
Campbell-K began to demonstrate a precocious familiarity with Gillies's playing as if to prove that he knew more about it than Robert Reid ever did.
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Big scam for the Wee Spree
How an honest pipe major discovered he had been tricked into playing "The Wee Spree" upside down by the "royal" piper, Robert Nicol, a pupil of John Macdonald.
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The Great Pibroch Hoax (3)
Campbell-K somehow turned it into a class war, sneering in his superior upper-class voice at the lower working class miner, but Robert Reid was no ordinary miner.
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The ordeal of Robert Reid (1)
The judges claimed the script was worthless because Gillies had not written it out in full and used his customary shorthand.
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The Kilberry book
It was Campbell-K's attempt "to stamp his increasingly eccentric dictatorship on pibroch. Perhaps he thought his destiny beckoned."
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The ordeal of Robert Reid (2)
"Poor old Campbell lost a lot of face with his vindictiveness".
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Alistair Campsie
His musical odyssey began just north of the Sudan-Eritrea frontier, when he was 20, with the Governor of Kassala's trombone.
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Traditional Training
"For 12 months I had to play MacCrimmon's Sweetheart four times a day on the practice chanter and once a day on the bagpipes except Sunday. Then I was told I had started on the wrong tune..."
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Final Proclamation of the King
Robert Reid announced his retiral, and adds: "I don't believe the MacCrimmons existed. And if they did, they were likely Irish pipers."
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